Chapter 4.Integrating Culture and Psychotherapy Through the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview
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In this chapter, we discuss how clinicians can integrate a cultural perspective in conducting psychotherapy. First, it is important to define what we mean by culture. In recognition that multiple definitions of this construct exist across the social and behavioral sciences, the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association 2013) Cross-Cultural Issues Subgroup (DCCIS), which was composed of cultural psychiatrists and medical anthropologists, proposed a consensus definition of culture that would be relevant for clinical practice, heralding a significant development from prior DSM revisions:
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