Pills that swallow policy: clinical ethnography of a Community Mental Health Program in northern India.

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：:Videoconferencing is an innovative method that potentially allows medical students exposure to international teachers in refugee mental health who would otherwise be inaccessible. This article reports a pilot study using videoconferencing with international teachers from Australia, Sweden and the USA participating in ...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Ekblad S,Manicavasagar V,Silove D,Bäärnhielm S,Reczycki M,Mollica R,Coello M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a process-oriented perspective that relates to the broad question of how self-related experience comes to be endowed with meaning. The approach highlights the implications of 'living by' particular culturally based understandings in specific contexts and centers on how jointly cultural, social, a...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Garro LC

更新日期：2003-03-01 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 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：:People with severe mental illness (SMI) in Ethiopia chew khat despite advice from their physicians to desist. We wanted to better understand their reasons for khat chewing, including any benefits that they might gain. A qualitative study was conducted involving patients with SMI and their caregivers in Butajira. Reaso...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Teferra S,Hanlon C,Alem A,Jacobsson L,Shibre T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Israeli government's decision to evacuate Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank introduced a new category of at-risk individuals to Israeli mental health discourse, namely victims of what has come to be termed the "trauma of the Disengagement." This category refers to Jewish settlers who are motiva...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Plotkin-Amrami G

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：: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

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 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 presents the results of a large efficacy study comparing different forms of therapy for major depressive disorder (MDD), including interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and pharmacotherapy. Patients were randomized to either IPT, IPT in combination with anti-depressant medication, IPT in combination with pill...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Blom MB,Hoek HW,Spinhoven P,Hoencamp E,Judith Haffmans PM,van Dyck R

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：: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：:To identify and explore cultural dynamics influencing the psychiatric care of immigrant Somalis in the USA, we reviewed demographic data from Minnesota Departments of Human Services, and interviewed health professionals, exploring community perceptions of medical/psychiatric needs, cultural characteristics, barriers t...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Scuglik DL,Alarcón RD,Lapeyre AC 3rd,Williams MD,Logan KM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three case studies of immigrants to the US from China, Iraq, and Mexico were used to build a theory of acculturation in immigrants by integrating the continuing bonds model, which describes mourning in bereavement with the assimilation model, which describes psychological change in psychotherapy. Participants were int...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Henry HM,Stiles WB,Biran MW,Mosher JK,Brinegar MG,Banerjee P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In My Name Is Legion (Leighton, 1959), the basic assumption of Alexander H. Leighton's theory of sentiment is as follows: 'A given personality exists more or less continuously throughout life in the act of striving, and interference with that striving has consequences which in turn often lead to psychiatric disorder' ...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Kaplan BH,Blazer DG,Munroe-Blum H

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Indigenous communities across the Alaskan Arctic have experienced profound revisions of livelihood, culture, and autonomy over the past century of colonization, creating radical discontinuities between the lives of young people and those of their parents and Elders. The disrupted processes of identity development, acc...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Trout L,Wexler L,Moses J

更新日期：2018-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:What is the relationship between sociocultural environment and psychiatric disorder? In particular, what is 'social disintegration', its characteristics, dangers and possible remediation? Alexander Hamilton Leighton and Jane Murphy's interdisciplinary contributions derive from those consuming concerns. This article co...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Lumsden DP

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Cross-cultural mental health services were assessed using qualitative interviews and focus groups of 43 mental health clinicians and program directors in one of the most ethnically integrated cities in the U.S. The commonly used strategy of ethnic matching between clinician and patient was found to be difficult to eff...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Ton H,Koike A,Hales RE,Johnson JA,Hilty DM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a creolizing world, psychotherapy is challenged by the growing influence of cultural standards, systems of meaning and idioms of distress supported by new groups who play a major role in public health policies. While these elements were originally introduced in psychotherapy with ethnic minorities both to improve t...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Rechtman R

更新日期：2006-06-01 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