How metaphors shape the particularities of illness and healing experiences.

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：:Drawing on a salutogenic perspective, we explored sense of coherence (SOC) in a group of Palestinian mental health care providers living and working in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories (West Bank). Specifically, we conducted a qualitative exploration of the cultural characteristics of SOC and its compon...

journal_title：Transcultural psychiatry

authors： Veronese G,Dhaouadi Y,Afana A

更新日期：2020-08-26 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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