The rule of virginity among young women of Maghrebine origin in France.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:India's National Mental Health Program (NMHP) was initiated in 1982 with the objective of promoting community participation and accessible mental health services. A key component involves central government calculation and funding for psychotropic medication. Based on clinical ethnography of a community psychiatry pro...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Jain S,Jadhav S

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Defined by psychologist Tamaki Saito as a period of social isolation in the absence of any other clear mental health issues for a period of six months or longer, hikikomori (social withdrawal) emerged as a condition among Japanese youth in the late 1980s. Used as both a noun to identify those afflicted, as well as des...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Ismail R

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：: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：:This study is an evaluation of clinicians' and patients' experiences of the core Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in DSM-5. The CFI provides a framework for gathering culturally relevant information, but its final form has not been sufficiently evaluated. Aims were to assess the Clinical Utility (CU), Feasibility ...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Wallin MI,Dahlin M,Nevonen L,Bäärnhielm S

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:This article considers some of the main features of so-called truth and reconciliation commissions, their history and structure and their characteristic concerns with respect to their central dilemmas, including: how they grapple with notions of truth, justice, liability, reconciliation, apology and forgiveness, and h...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Avruch K

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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：:The study of the relationship between psychiatry and religion has become an issue of increasing importance for both research and clinical practice. This article presents the history of the R. M. Bucke Memorial Society for the Study of Religious Experience, established by Raymond Prince in Montréal in 1964 as one of th...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Bartocci G,Rovera GG,Lalli N,Ascoli M

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：:Reported suicide rates in Latin America remain low, but there is evidence to suggest they may be increasing, particularly among indigenous populations. To better understand who may be at risk for suicide, we examined the prevalence of suicidal ideation and explored factors contributing to suicidal thoughts in an ethni...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Pezzia C,Hernandez LM

更新日期：2021-01-14 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：: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