A qualitative needs assessment for development of a cultural consultation service.

abstract：:What can an exploration of contemporary Aboriginal healing programs such as those offered in Canadian prisons and urban clinics tell us about the importance of history in understanding social and psychological pathology, and more significantly the salience of the concept of "historical trauma"? The form of Aboriginal ...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Waldram JB

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses four major challenges for efforts to create synergy between the global mental health movement and cultural psychiatry. First, although they appear to share domains of mutual interest, the worlds of global mental health and cultural psychiatry have distinct lineages. Expanding their horizons by l...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： de Jong JT

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines Fischl Schneersohn's (1887-1958) "science of man" as a psychotherapeutic approach situated between modern psychology and Chassidic mysticism. While almost forgotten today, Schneersohn was a prolific writer, well-known in Yiddish-speaking circles as a psychologist, educationalist, novelist, and ps...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Freis D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated feared social situations in individuals with social anxiety disorder from different racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The sample included 247 African Americans, 158 Latinos, and 533 non-Latino Whites diagnosed with social anxiety disorder within the past 12 months from the integrated Colla...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Asnaani A,Aderka IM,Marques L,Simon N,Robinaugh DJ,Hofmann SG

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveying 60 Vietnamese patients with either current or past post-traumatic stress disorder, this article aims to phenomenologically characterize the syndrome of 'hit by the wind' in a multidimensional manner. This includes determining the patient conceptualization of the disorder, profiling 'hit by the wind' episodes...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Hinton D,Hinton S,Pham T,Chau H,Tran M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scholarship on idioms of distress has emphasized cross-cultural variation, but devoted less attention to intra-cultural variation-specifically, how the legitimacy of distress may vary according to the context in which it is expressed, social position, and interaction with medical categories of distress. This variation...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Snell-Rood C,Jenkins R,Hudson K,Frazier C,Noble W,Feltner F

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the Canadian Community Health Survey Cycle 1.1 showed that Chinese immigrants to Canada and Chinese individuals born in Canada were less likely than other Canadians to have contacted a health professional for mental health reasons in the previous year in the province of British Columbia. The difference persi...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Chen AW,Kazanjian A,Wong H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taijin Kyofusho (TKS), a disorder characterized by a fear of interpersonal relations, and regarded as a culture-bound disorder in Japan, is related to social anxiety disorder (SAD). A variant of TKS, the 'offensive type' involves fear of offending others by one's inappropriate social behavior or appearance. Reports of...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Tarumi S,Ichimiya A,Yamada S,Umesue M,Kuroki T

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:China is experiencing rapid cultural change and new forms of sociability that are accompanied by social problems and novel humanitarian interventions that have been formulated to address those problems. The pressure related to the rapid transformation of the countryside into mid-level cities has led to recreational dr...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Hyde ST

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the psychological sciences, mindfulness practices are increasingly being used, studied, and theorized, but their indigenous theoretical foundations in Buddhist accounts of the dynamics and psychology of personal identity tend to be overlooked. This situation is mirrored in the discipline of philosophy: here, Buddhi...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Panaïoti A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Africa, the emergence of a "modern" mental health regime centered on psychiatry is often portrayed as a unidirectional intervention by "the West." Analyses ranging from medical histories of colonial psychiatry to more recent studies of Global Mental Health focus mostly on the role of external actors and the ways th...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Vorhölter J

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaphors are frequently seen in individuals' descriptions of their illness and healing experiences. These figurative phrases are not ornamental, or distracting, but often reveal the particularities of what it is like to be ill or healing. Culture plays a big role in shaping the particular metaphors employed to expres...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Gibbs RW Jr

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive role of life satisfaction, perceived social support, and psychological problems on loneliness among Palestinian university students in the West Bank. Participants were 254 volunteer undergraduate students (50.4% males and 49.6% females), ranging from 18 to 26 yea...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Nazzal FI,Cruz O,Neto F

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing recognition that "human development" frameworks, such as the Capabilities Approach (CA) with its emphasis on the promotion of justice, offer promise for guiding efforts aimed at enhancing mental wellbeing. This article explores challenges that might arise when there is a need to arbitrate among the co...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： White RG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prototypical feature of schizophrenic consciousness is that it undergoes a solidification of the imaginary space in which mental events take place. The bipartition between images and 'real' things is jeopardized and imagination is transformed into 'physical' forms. Parallel to this solidification of imaginary space ...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Stanghellini G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores the pragmatic sensibilities that are implicit in idioms of distress among family caregivers for Alzheimer's disease in Teotitlán del Valle, a rural Zapotec-speaking community in Oaxaca, Mexico. Through analysis of caregivers' perceptions of progressive memory loss and related etiological understa...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Yahalom J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few empirical studies have detailed the specificities of working with interpreters in mental healthcare for children. The integration of interpreters in clinical teams in child mental healthcare was explored in two clinics, in Montreal and Paris. Four focus groups were conducted with interpreters and clinicians. Parti...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Leanza Y,Boivin I,Moro MR,Rousseau C,Brisset C,Rosenberg E,Hassan G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture and socialization influence how individuals perceive and express emotional distress. Research therefore, must consider the context to capture individual experiences. However, the majority of studies on factors associated with emotional distress among migrants use quantitative approaches, limiting an in-depth u...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Nguyen MH,Lanca JC,Hahn E,von Poser A,Heyken E,Wingenfeld K,Burian R,Diefenbacher A,Ta TMT

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This introduction to the Special Issue Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic reviews relevant resilience theory and research, with particular attention to Arctic Indigenous youth. Current perspectives on resilience, as well as the role of social determinants, and community resilience processes in understanding res...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Allen J,Hopper K,Wexler L,Kral M,Rasmus S,Nystad K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reflects upon questions of ontological contingency when the stark, visceral reality of a person's relentless self-destruction unfolds within institutional mechanisms that systematically withhold certain kinds of care. I consider these issues through the lens of "manipulation" as it is elaborated within an A...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Lester RJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated the lived experience of 12 parents of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in everyday cultural contexts in Goa, India. Narratives from parents collected between 2009 and 2010 were analyzed using the procedures of phenomenological psychology. Four temporal phases of parents' experie...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Desai MU,Divan G,Wertz FJ,Patel V

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of culturally appropriate mental health assessment instruments is a major barrier to screening and evaluating efficacy of interventions. Simple translation of questionnaires produces misleading and inaccurate conclusions. Multiple alternate approaches have been proposed, and this study compared two approaches...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Kaiser BN,Kohrt BA,Keys HM,Khoury NM,Brewster AR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article explores how desire operates in the daily lives of women with disordered eating. Based on qualitative findings from a South Australian study investigating why women with disordered eating are reluctant to seek help, we trace the multiple "tipping points" and triggers that are central to participants' ever...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Musolino C,Warin M,Gilchrist P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Do refugees have lower levels of positive mental health than other migrants? If so, to what extent is this attributable to post-migration experiences, including discrimination? How does gender affect the relationships between post-migration experience and positive mental health? To address these questions, the current...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Beiser M,Hou F

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the failings of neo-liberalism have recently been revealed through the collapse of much of the banking and financial services sector, it seems an opportune time to think about the impact this economic, political, and social value system has had on the well-being of children. After analyzing how our beliefs and prac...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Timimi S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Career paths in cultural psychiatry and other areas of medicine often are influenced by a combination of developmental, academic and training experiences. One of the satisfactions for the cultural psychiatrist is the opportunity to integrate lifelong interests that are not central to medical training, such as anthropo...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Boehnlein JK

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) may become an important tool to help operationalize culture in the clinical realm. However, challenges exist in teaching its use to avoid the risk of stereotyping and oversimplification, which could result in misunderstanding and stigma. The aim of this article is to docu...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Rousseau C,Johnson-Lafleur J,Papazian-Zohrabian G,Measham T

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buddhist psychology is increasingly informing psychotherapeutic practice in the western world. This article: (a) provides a general background to Buddhist tradition; (b) outlines the central tenets of Buddhist psychology, with particular emphasis on the practice of meditation; (c) provides an overview of research into...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Kelly BD

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2015, a large number of refugees arrived in Germany, mostly driven to emigrate by devastating circumstances in their countries of origin. Arriving refugees are distributed to reception centers within the German federal states, frequently facing marginal conditions in terms of overcrowding or waiting time of several...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Belz M,Belz M,Özkan I,Graef-Calliess IT

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Mental Health (GMH) movement has raised questions of the translatability of psychiatric concepts and the challenges of community engagement. In Tonga, the local psychiatrist Dr Puloka successfully established a publicly accessible psychiatry that has improved admission rates for serious mental illnesses and...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Poltorak M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00