Effect of Different Cultures in Creating Psychological Disorders

Alireza Amir Abadizadeh¹ Shokrieh Abdi²

1) Assistant Professor of Biology Department of Culture, Tehran, Iran.
2) Ph.D., Public Psychology, Islamic Azad University of Birjand, South Khorasan, Iran.

IOI Code : XEFA-HFKCC
Publication : 3th National Conference on Psychopathology(asruma3.ir)
Abstract :
    Psychological disorders is a product of multiple factors that each one can affect it. The present study is a factor in the culture of the culture among many factors involved in psychological pathology. Cultural practices and beliefs can affect the style of the confrontation with a psychological distress and sometimes help them in the face of mental illness. On the other hand, these cultural factors can be a source of distress, conflict and field of mental disorder in individual. The influence of cultural factors in psychological pathology is as much as the expression of psychological symptoms and the individual s visits to the treatment is also influenced by the cultural context. In addition, cultural effects can impose a lot of challenges on mental health professionals. The task of psychologists is assessment, formulation, diagnosis and intervention in the field of psychiatric disorders. For the effective interventions, they must be appropriate, acceptable and also morally culturally. To design an effective intervention and proportional to the cultural tissue, experts should consider the references to the cultural and disorders of the field of context.

Keywords : culture psychological pathology psychological disorder