Conceptualization of mental illness within Arab cultures: Meeting challenges in cross-cultural settings
Keywords: Arab, interpreters, cross-cultural, conceptualization, mental illness.
For the families of Arab patients psychological treatment primarily entails pharmacotherapy.
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