Johns Hopkins legionary: Leighton's lineage and legacy.

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：:There is significant variation in how people experience, emplot and intergenerationally transmit trauma experiences. Despite this variation, the literature rarely illustrates alternative manifestations or resilient responses to the construct of historical trauma. Based upon person-centered ethnographic research, this ...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Denham AR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcultural psychiatry has increased awareness of alternative approaches to mental health and wellbeing, influencing developments in Western psychotherapeutic treatments. In this article, I look at the recent interest in alternative therapies by the U.S. military, which has explored the possibilities of lucid dreami...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Smith S

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：:The Cultural Formulation (CF) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) provides a potential framework for improving the diagnostic assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in culturally diverse patients. We analyzed data from the Patient-Provider Encounter Study, a multi-site study that examines the pr...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Fortuna LR,Porche MV,Alegría M

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：:Of the approximately 13,750 humanitarian refugees who have fled from war and other human rights abuses to resettle in Australia every year, the majority are families arriving with adolescent children. This study used a qualitative methodology to explore Sudanese refugee women's narratives around parenting teenagers in...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Levi M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to compare different features of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in India and Belgium. We also explored whether the strength of the association between NSSI and disturbances in identity formation-a risk factor that can increase vulnerability to NSSI-was similar in young adults from Ind...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Gandhi A,Luyckx K,Adhikari A,Parmar D,Desousa A,Shah N,Maitra S,Claes L

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined explanations of sleep paralysis (SP) in Turkey. The participants were 59 college students recruited in İstanbul, Turkey, who had experienced SP at least once in their lifetime. Participants were administered the Sleep Paralysis Experiences and Phenomenology Questionnaire (SP-EPQ) in an inter...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Jalal B,Sevde Eskici H,Acarturk C,Hinton DE

更新日期：2020-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This special section of Transcultural Psychiatry explores the local-global spaces of engagement being opened up by the Movement for Global Mental Health, with particular emphasis on the need for expanded engagement with local communities. Currently the Movement places its main emphasis on scaling up mental health serv...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Campbell C,Burgess R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Global Assessment of Relational Functioning Scale (GARF) has been proposed as an additional domain on Axis V, yet few validation studies have been conducted. This study examines the validity of the Brazilian-Portuguese version of the GARF. An experienced family therapist interviewed 34 families in which one member...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Mello AF,Blay SL,Kohn R

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Although traditional initiation forms a pivotal part of Xhosa culture, it may be a stressful life event for the individual. In this study, 75 Xhosa males diagnosed with schizophrenia were interviewed to examine their perceptions of the role of initiation in the onset and course of their illness. In all, eight patients...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： le Roux R,Niehaus DJ,Koen L,Seller C,Lochner C,Emsley RA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of migration may be associated not only with great hope, but also with distressing experiences that can lead to trauma and posttraumatic stress disorders. Although some of the symptoms induced by trauma are common across cultures, the strategies used to deal with them are often culture-specific. In the fol...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Schouler-Ocak M,Reiske SL,Rapp MA,Heinz A

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Traditional and contemporary Inuit concepts of sleep paralysis were investigated through interviews with elders and young people in Iqaluit, Baffin Island. Sleep paralysis was readily recognized by most respondents and termed uqumangirniq (in the Baffin region) or aqtuqsinniq (Kivalliq region). Traditional interpretat...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Law S,Kirmayer LJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：: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：:Drawing on data collected from 3 focus groups with 24 traditional healers, the aim of this qualitative study was to use the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to gain an understanding of traditional healer referral practices of their patients with a mental illness. Results indicated that traditional h...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Sorsdahl K,Stein DJ,Flisher AJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of death by suicide among North Korean refugees are three times higher than those among their host-country counterparts in South Korea. However, social and cultural factors predicting suicidality among North Korean refugees are not well known. Thus, we explored how social networks affect suicidal ideation in a s...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Um MY,Rice E,Lee JO,Kim HJ,Palinkas LA

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred Khmer refugees attending a psychiatric clinic were surveyed to determine the prevalence of olfactory-triggered panic attacks as well as certain characteristics of the episodes, including trigger (i.e. type of odor), frequency, length, somatic symptoms, and the rate of associated flashbacks and catastrophic...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Hinton D,Pich V,Chhean D,Pollack M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataque de nervios is a Latina/o idiom of distress that may occur as a culturally sanctioned response to acute stressful experiences, particularly relating to grief, threat, family conflict, and a breakdown in social networks. The contextual factors associated with ataque de nervios have received little attention in re...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Ginzburg SL,Lemon SC,Rosal M

更新日期：2020-07-21 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

abstract：:Although migration itself may not compromise the mental health of immigrants, the acculturative process can involve highly stressful factors that are specific to immigrant and minority status. Using structural equation modeling, this study examined the relations between acculturation orientations, perceived discrimina...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Tonsing KN,Tse S,Tonsing JC

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcultural psychiatry was developed in France to promote cultural and linguistic diversity and address the mental health needs of immigrants who were excluded from accessing other public mental health services. Professionals in health and social services refer patients to transcultural psychiatry consultations when...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Ansari DA

更新日期：2019-11-20 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：:Over the last two decades, the reinforcement of security-related migration policies has resulted in the perception of the foreigner, and especially the irregular migrant, as a category outside the circle of legality. The rights of foreigners in host countries have deteriorated due to the connection made between immigr...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Crépeau F,Nakache D,Atak I

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00