Studying mental illness in context: Local, global, or universal?

That are the social and cultural factors that influence the course and outcome of serious mental illness What are the basic processes that influence the diagnosis and assessment of persons Suffering such illness, and how do we account for higher levels of misdiagnosis among members of ethnic minorities in the that ed States? A review, of the current status of these two major research questions illustrates characteristics sf current research and the importance of ethnographic studies for advancing our understanding of basic processes.