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Cultural disconnect leads to mental health problems in NZ Pacific youth

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Cultural disconnect leads to mental health problems in NZ Pacific youth

Updated 7 September 2012, 13:12 AEST

A mental health survey of young Pacific Islanders in New Zealand published earlier this year has helped highlight a glaring gap in the way mental illness is understood in Pacific and western settings.

Cultural disconnect leads to mental health problems in NZ Pacific youth (Credit: ABC) 

And it's inspired a Tongan psychiatric nurse to undertake exciting new research in cross-cultural mental health.

Presenter:Corinne Podger

Speaker:Sione Vaka, lecturer, Pacific and Mental Health, Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland; Siale Foliaki, Clinical Director, Pacific Mental Health Services, Manukau District, Auckland.

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