title: Folk beliefs of the Chinese and implications to psychiatric nursing.
abstract: Each culture has its own ways of coping with problems. The ancient peoples had developed various devices based on their settings. Those devices are not scientific from the modern man's point of view, however, they have been used over and over through thousands of years. The fact that the world populations have been expanding and growing in tremendous speed, and societies have become more and more complex, people in the world have been confronted with more problems than in the ancient days. Perhaps it is time for the modern man to look back to some of the traditionally used practices in order to draw some implications so that the modern practices can be modified and improved. Through such processes of re-evaluating the traditional practices and modifying modern practices, man will be greatly benefited from the past and the present.
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003142:Communication; D005006:Ethnicity; D005495:Folklore; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing