title: Cambodian refugee adolescents: cultural factors and mental health nursing.
abstract: Cambodian adolescents in America are a high-risk group for physical, psychosomatic, and drug-related problems. Communication with the Cambodian community is a challenge to mental health nurses due to fundamental differences in American and Cambodian perceptions about parental roles and causation and treatment of illness. The authors focus on the Cambodian cultural theme of equilibrium in treatment of illness, management of stress, and patterns of parenting. Conflicts faced by Cambodian adolescents and nursing intervention strategies are identified.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Frye
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McGill
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry; D002160:Cambodia / Q000208:ethnology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000451:nursing*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012036:Refugees; D016746:Transcultural Nursing; D014481:United States