Cross-cultural

Advantages and aims of cross-cultural mentoring schemes... 

When considering the different aims of a cross-cultural mentoring scheme, it becomes clear that the mentors ought to be people who ... 

Have had diversity training and/or experience with cross-cultural management/training. 

Case study 3.7 illustrates a cross-cultural pilot mentoring scheme set in a Western company located in Borneo. It is interesting to note that this type of mentoring may be both more difficult as well as different to other programs. For instance, due to cultural variations, Malay mentees were not so comfortable with the focus on self-managed learning within developmental mentoring - mentors were expected to be much more proactive than in a European environment. 

Evaluating and Communicating Subsistence Seafood Safety in a Cross-Cultural Context ... 

Gey, K.F., Puska, J.M., Jordan, P. and Moser, U.K. (1991). Inverse correlation between plasma vitamin E and mortality from ischaemic heart disease in cross-cultural epidemiology. Am. J. CUn. Nutr. 53, 3265-3345. 

Gey, K.F. and Puska, P. (1989). Plasma vitamins E and A inversely related to mortality from ischaemic heart disease in cross-cultural epidemiolc. Ann N. York Acad. Sci. 570, 268-282. 

Several cross-cultural studies suggest that while the physical symptoms of PMS are consistent across cultures, the negative affective symptoms are part of the negative menstrual socialization in Western culture.1,21... 

Greenstadt, L., Yang, L., and Shapiro, D., Caffeine, mental stress, and risk for hypertension A cross-cultural replication. Psychosomatic Medicine 50(1), 15-22, 1988. 

Marsella, A. J. (1988). Cross-cultural research on severe mental disorders issues and findings. 

Searle, W. Ward, C. (1990). The prediction of psychological and sociocultural adjustment during cross-cultural transitions. Inti. J. Intercultural Relations, 14(4), 449-64. 

Triandis, H. C. (1993). Collectivism and individualism as cultural syndromes. Cross-Cultural Research The Journal of Comparative Social Science, 27(3-4), 155-80. 

Ng, J., Lin, K. M. et al. (2005). Perspectives in Cross-Cultural Psychiatry. Philadelphia, PA Lippincott Williams Wilkins. 

Escobar, J. I. Tuason, V. B. (1980). Antidepressant agents-a cross-cultural study. Psychophar-macol. Bull., 16,49-52. 

Lindamer, L., Lacro, J. P. Jeste, D.V. (1999). Relationship of ethnicity to the effects of antipsychotic medication. In J. M. Herrara, W. B. Lawson and J. J. Sramek, eds., Cross Cultural Psychiatry. Sussex John Wiley Sons. 

Pi, E. H. Simpson G. M. (2005). Cross-cultural psychopharmacology a current clinical perspective. Psychiatry Serv., 56, 31-3. 

Concerns about psychotropic side effects, which can vary cross-culturally, often lead to premature cessation of psychotropics. This may be related to different propensities for and values placed on somatic experiences in different cultures. Transcultural research indicates that patients from non-Western cultures are more likely to present with predominantly somatic symptoms of psychiatric disorders (Ng, 1997 Parker, Gladstone 8c Chee, 2001), as cultural explanatory models and social demands may serve to bias information processing in the various domains of subjective experience (Angel 8c Thoits, 1987). Several studies have shown that the perception and reporting of side effects are influenced by cultural beliefs... 

Do culturally based attitudes have a significant influence on both therapeutic and adverse effects of psychotropics Can these attitudes be reliably quantified cross-culturally ... 

An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine. Draws parallels between Vedic beliefs and Judeo-Christian sects, showing the existence of a mushroom cult that crossed cultural boundaries. Contends that the famed philosophers stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom. Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson s hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric... 

Shelley, William Scott. The elixir an alchemical study of the ergot mushrooms. Notre Dame (IN) Cross Cultural Publications, 1995. 282p. ISBN 0-940121-21-2... 

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