@article{ref1,
title="Curanderos and mental health professionals: a comparative study on perceptions of psychopathology",
journal="Hispanic journal of behavioral sciences",
year="1980",
author="Arenas, Silverio and Cross, Herbert and Willard, William",
volume="2",
number="4",
pages="407-421",
abstract="Curanderos and mental health care professionals differ in the way they perceive psychopathology, as demonstrated in the way they responded to a set of hypothetical case histories. These vignettes depicted people suffering from a variety of psychiatric and folk-medical disorders. Compared with professionals, cur anderos were found to be reluctant to label the disorders as &quot;mental illness.&quot; They also perceived the people portrayed in the vignettes as less seriously &quot;ill&quot; and less dangerous to them selves or to others. The curanderos were found to classify the disorders presented in a unique and culturally specific way. Their classification system was seen to be consistent with cul turally relevant ideas and beliefs about etiological processes. A variety of treatments based on those etiological processes were also recommended by the curanderos.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0739-9863",
doi="10.1177/073998638000200408",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/073998638000200408"
}