Attitudes towards symptoms and services in the ethnic family and neighborhood.
Research in Baltimore's Italian and Polish neighborhoods suggest that the extended family is seen as the front-line resource for intensive advice on emotional problems. Mental health specialists frequently are not preceived as the appropriate agents for meeting problems that are beyond the expertise of the family and local community. Implications for community mental health are examined.
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D001290:Attitude; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003192:Compulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008396:Maryland; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology