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Denise Saint Arnault, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Professor
College of Nursing

B510-B West Fee Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-355-3332 phone
saintarn@msu.edu


About

Dr. Denise Saint Arnault (Associate Professor, College of Nursing) is a masters-prepared Psychiatric Nurse specialist, with a PhD in Medical Anthropology. She has nearly 20 years of clinical practice working with women's depression, particularly women whose depression is related to childhood trauma and/or IPV (Saint Arnault & Oksoo, 2008; Saint Arnault, Sakamoto, & Moriwaki, 2005, 2006). Her research focuses on the experiences of distress and help-seeking for immigrant and minority women, and she has worked with women in Native American, African American and Asian communities (Saint Arnault, 2005, in press). Her current NIMH-funded research examines the interrelationships among internalized cultural beliefs and values, distress, social networks and help-seeking for women in a Japanese community in the Midwest. She has developed innovative mixed survey, ethnographic and psychiatric methods in this study, and within the ethnographic interview has used a lifeline to help women organize their discussion of distress and help-seeking.

Select Publications

Bay, E., Sikorskii, A., Saint Arnault, D.M., & Gao, F. (In press).
Sex Differences in Depressive Symptoms and their Correlates.
Journal of Neuroscience Nursing.
Saint Arnault, D.M. (In Press).
Cultural Determinants of Help Seeking: A theoretical model for research and practice.
Theory for Research and Practice.
Currier, C., Lucas, J.,& Saint Arnault, D.M. (2009).
Developing culturally competent nurses through experiential education abroad.
Lewin, R. (Ed). The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad: Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship. New York: Routledge.
Saint Arnault, D.M. and Kim, Oksoo. (2008).
Asian idioms of distress? Somatic distress symptoms in Japanese and Korean women.
Archives in Psychiatric Nursing.
Saint Arnault, D. M., Sakamoto, S., & Moriwaki, A. (2006).
Somatic and Depressive Symptoms in Female Japanese and American Students: A Preliminary Investigation.
Transcultural Psychiatry