OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Transcultural Psychiatry is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychedelics, placebo effects, and set and setting: Insights from common factors theory of psychotherapy	42
Advancing Indigenous Mental Health Research	38
The Cultural Formulation Interview: Progress to date and future directions	37
The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5: Prospects for training, research, and clinical practice	31
Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations	28
The socialization of hallucinations: Cultural priors, social interactions, and contextual factors in the use of psychedelics	25
Toward an anthropology of loneliness	24
Resilience of sub-Saharan children and adolescents: A scoping review	22
From idioms of distress, concern, and care to moral distress leading to moral injury in the time of Covid	18
Refugee mental health and human rights: A challenge for global mental health	18
Climate change and Indigenous mental health in the Circumpolar North: A systematic review to inform clinical practice	17
Escaping the inescapable: Risk of mental health disorder, somatic symptoms and resilience in Palestinian refugee children	16
Health professionals’ experiences of and attitudes towards mental healthcare for migrants and refugees in Europe: A qualitative systematic review	16
Culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience: A multidimensional model of Chinese resilience	16
Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions	15
Mental health literacy in Ghana: Implications for religiosity, education and stigmatization	14
Complementing standard western measures of depression with locally co-developed instruments: A cross-cultural study on the experience of depression among the Luo in Kenya	13
Modalities of the psychedelic experience: Microclimates of set and setting in hallucinogen research and culture	12
Cultural explanations of psychotic illness and care-seeking of family caregivers in Java, Indonesia	12
Patients’ and clinicians’ experiences of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: A mixed method study in a Swedish outpatient setting	12
Sociocultural contexts of mental illness experience among Africans	12
Persistent psychological distress in resettled refugee women-at-risk at one-year follow-up: Contributions of trauma, post-migration problems, loss, and trust	12
Training in cultural psychiatry: Translating research into improvements in mental health care for migrants	11
Suicide in cultural context: An ecosocial approach	11
Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health and future orientation among young adult asylum seekers in Italy: A mixed-methods study	11

Non-suicidal self-injury and its association with identity formation in India and Belgium: A cross-cultural case-control study	11
Defining and assessing key behavioral indicators of the Shifting Cultural Lenses model of cultural competence	11
“A woman’s life is tension”: A gendered analysis of women’s distress in poor urban India	11
Deconstructing institutional racism and the social construction ofwhiteness: A strategy for professional competence training in culture and migration mental health	11
“I thought that I had to be alive to repay my parents”: Filial piety as a risk and protective factor for suicidal behavior in a qualitative study of Chinese women	10
Mental health problems among children in Sierra Leone: Assessing cultural concepts of distress	10
Benefits and Challenges of Using a Participatory Approach with Community-based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions in Displaced Populations	10
Using the Cultural Formulation Interview in Denmark: Acceptability and clinical utility for medical doctors and migrant patients	10
Psychosis and psychedelics: Historical entanglements and contemporary contrasts	10
Dislocation, Social Isolation, and the Politics of Recovery in Post-Disaster Japan	9
Dementia caregiving in the Middle East and North Africa: A scoping review	9
Perceiving those who are gone: Cultural research on post-bereavement perception or hallucination of the deceased	9
Conceptualising and addressing mental disorders amongst Muslim communities: Approaches from the Islamic Golden Age	9
Communalistic use of psychoactive plants as a bridge between traditional healing practices and Western medicine: A new path for the Global Mental Health movement	8
Prevalence and predictors of psychopathology in the war-afflicted Syrian population	8
Explanatory models, illness, and treatment experiences of patients with psychosis using the services of traditional and faith healers in three African countries: Similarities and discontinuities	8
When roles within interpreter-mediated psychiatric consultations speak louder than words	8
The mental health impact of caste and structural inequalities in higher education in India	8
Treating immigrant patients in psychiatric emergency rooms	8
“God is a painter”: How Jewish Ultra-Orthodox art therapists and clients perceive mental health treatment	8
“It's easy to dismiss it as simply a spiritual problem.” Experiences of mental distress within evangelical Christian communities: A qualitative survey	8
Transgenerational trauma in Rwandan genocidal rape survivors and their children: A culturally enhanced bioecological approach	7
A Functional Network Perspective on Posttraumatic Stress in Refugees: Implications for Theory, Classification, Assessment, and Intervention	7
Hopelessness and shame in relation to suicide attempts by Cuban adolescents	7
How metaphors shape the particularities of illness and healing experiences	7
Psychopathology among apprentice traditional health practitioners: A quantitative study from rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	7
Rethinking sense of coherence: Perceptions of comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness in a group of Palestinian health care providers operating in the West Bank and Israel	7
Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England	7
Radicalization to Violence: A View from Cultural Psychiatry	6
“Everything was stuck in my inside and I just wanted to get it out”: Psychological distress, coping, and help-seeking for young adult Australian Hazaras from refugee backgrounds	6
The Cultural Formulation Interview—Generating distance or alliance? A qualitative study of practice changes in Danish mental healthcare	6
Suicidal ideation among North Korean refugees in South Korea: Exploring the influence of social network characteristics by gender	6
Conceptual and methodological challenges in idioms of distress research: Common questions and a step-by-step guide	6
To raise a child with autism spectrum disorder: A qualitative, comparative study of parental experiences in the United States and Senegal	6
“My own corner of loneliness:” Social isolation and place among Mexican immigrants in Arizona and Turkana pastoralists of Kenya	6
Psychosocial concerns in a context of prolonged political oppression: Gaza mental health providers’ perceptions	6
Perspectives of university health care students on mental health stigma in Nigeria: Qualitative analysis	6
Attitudes of key professionals towards people with intellectual disabilities and their inclusion in society: A qualitative study in an Indonesian context	6
The role of discrimination, assimilation, and gender in the mental health of resettled Somali young adults: A longitudinal, moderated mediation analysis	6
Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	6
Images of loneliness in Tuareg narratives of travel, dispersion, and return	6
“When I hear my language, I travel back in time and I feel at home”: Intersections of culture with social inclusion and exclusion of persons with dementia and their caregivers	6
Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?	6
Traditional healers’ explanatory models of intellectual disability in Cape Town	5
Stigma, lost opportunities, and growth: Understanding experiences of caregivers of persons with mental illness in Tamil Nadu, India	5
“Medical treatments are also part of God’s gift”: Holy water attendants’ perspectives on a collaboration between spiritual and psychiatric treatment for mental illness in Ethiopia	5
Macrodosing to microdosing with psychedelics: Clinical, social, and cultural perspectives	5
Strategic universality in the making of global guidelines for mental health	5
Neighborhood characteristics and ataque de nervios: the role of neighborhood violence	5
Anxiety sensitivity and acculturative stress: Concurrent relations to mental health among Spanish-speaking Latinx in primary care	5

Perceived Discrimination, Experiential Avoidance, and Mental Health among Hispanic Adults in Primary Care	5
Self-recognition of trauma-related psychopathology and help-seeking among resettled Iraqi refugees in Australia	5
What factors are truly associated with risk for radicalisation? A secondary data analysis within a UK sample	5
An interview-based evaluation of an Indigenous traditional spirituality program at an urban American Indian health clinic	5
Psychosocial health in adolescent unmarried motherhood in rural Uganda: Implications for community-based collaborative mental health education, and empowerment strategies in the prevention of depressi	5
Becoming a transcultural psychotherapist: Qualitative study of the experience of professionals in training in a transcultural psychotherapy group	5
Contextualized understanding of depression: A vignette study among the !Xun and Khwe of South Africa	5
Walking Corpse Syndrome: A trauma-related idiom of distress amongst Sri Lankan Tamils	5
Suicidal ideation in an ethnically mixed, highland Guatemalan community	5
Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation	5
Psychological distress and anxiety in Arab refugees and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	4
Refugee posttraumatic growth: A grounded theory study	4
Understandings of depression among community members and primary healthcare attendees in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study	4
Prevalence of spiritual and religious experiences in the general population: A Brazilian nationwide study	4
Evaluation of a training program on the prevention of violent radicalization for health and education professionals	4
Transnational evaluation of the Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Scale: Measuring population attitudes toward violent radicalization in two countries	4
“An automatic Bible in the brain”: Trauma and prayer among Acholi Pentecostals in northern Uganda	4
The impact of alcohol misuse on fathering in Northern Uganda: An ethnographic study of fathers	4
Psychological distress and terrorist engagement: Measuring, correlating, and sequencing its onset with negative life events, social factors, and protective factors	4
Understanding mental distress in Arcahaie, Haiti: Heterogeneous uses of idioms of distress in communicating psychological suffering	4
Recounting coup as the recirculation of Indigenous vitality: A narrative alternative to historical trauma	4
The Challenge of Indigenous Healing for Global Mental Health	4
New starts at New Start: Recovery and the work ofhikikomori	4
Development of the Chinese, Malay and Tamil translations of the Positive Mental Health Instrument: Cross-cultural adaptation, validity and internal consistency	4
Sociality and temporality in local experiences of distress and healing: Ethnographic research in northern Rwanda	4
An embodied distress: African asylum seekers’ experiences of mental health difficulties while awaiting an asylum outcome in Ireland	3
On epistemic injustices, biomedical research with Indigenous people, and the legal regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil: The production of new injustices?	3
“Hopefully you’ve landed the waka on the shore”: Negotiated spaces in New Zealand’s bicultural mental health system	3
Loneliness in Kenyan adolescents: Socio-cultural factors and network association with depression and anxiety symptoms	3
Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations	3
Treatment considerations for foreign-born victims of human trafficking: Practical applications of an ecological framework	3
Migration-related emotional distress among Vietnamese psychiatric patients in Germany: An interdisciplinary, mixed methods study	3
Self-identification, mode of diagnosis and treatment, and perceptions of relationships with medical providers of South African Xhosa-speaking traditional healers	3
Cross-cultural adaptation of an anxiety measure in a disadvantaged South African community context: Methodological processes and findings	3
Wellbeing and experiences of Chinese and Vietnamese carers of people with mental illness in Australia	3
Evaluating the Indonesia Free Pasung Movement: Understanding continuing use of restraint of the mentally ill in rural Java	3
Raspail, racism, and migration: Implications for radicalization in a polarizing world	3
Practitioner competencies for working with refugee children and young people: A scoping review	3
The culturally and contextually sensitive assessment of mental health using a structured diagnostic interview (MINI Kid) for Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon: Challenges and solution	3
Psychedelic medicine at a crossroads: Advancing an integrative approach to research and practice	3
The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine	3
Perspective changes through transcultural mediation training: A qualitative study of trainees, instructors, and experts	3
Inuit wellness: A better understanding of the principles that guide actions and an overview of practices	2
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) for screening for depression in the first year post delivery in a low-resourced rural setting in Kenya	2
Lessons learned in adapting an online intervention program for posttraumatic stress for use in Egypt	2
Cross-cultural adaptation of four instruments to measure stigma towards people with mental illness and substance use problems among primary care professionals in Chile	2
The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges	2
Contingent universality: The epistemic politics of global mental health	2
Association between unmet post-arrival expectations and psychological symptoms in recently arrived refugees	2
Forcibly displaced persons and mental health: A survey of the experiences of Europe-wide psychiatry trainees during their training	2
Beliefs about causal factors for suicide in rural Alaska Native communities and recommendations for prevention	2
“It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native University students	2
Grisi Siknis: A cultural idiom of gender-based violence and structural inequalities in eastern Nicaragua	2
Rethinking the moral in narrating trauma: Ethnographic insights on clinical reasoning	2
Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables	2
Screening depression and anxiety in Indigenous peoples: A global scoping review	2
“They tell us little and we end up being confused”: Parent–child communication on familial experiences of genocide and its aftermath in Rwanda	2
The association of mindfulness and depression stigma among African American women participants in a mindfulness-based intervention: A pilot study	2
Mental illness, personhood, and transcendence: Spiritual and religious assistance in Catholic psychiatric contexts	2
Understanding Nepali widows’ experiences for the adaptation of an instrument to assess Prolonged Grief Disorder	2
Examining the hikikomori syndrome in a French sample of hospitalized adolescents with severe social withdrawal and school refusal behavior	2
Discussing the unspoken: A qualitative analysis of online forum discussions on mental health problems in young Moroccan-Dutch migrants	2
A systematic review of cross-cultural measures of resilience and its promotive and protective factors	2
Beyond the language barrier: A systematic review of selective mutism in culturally and linguistically diverse children	2
Balanced time perspective as a facilitator of immigrants’ psychological adaptation: A study among Ukrainian immigrants in Poland	2
Transcultural and familial factors in bilingualism and language transmission: A qualitative study of maternal representations of French-Maghrebi Arabic bilingual children	2
Technology and addiction: What drugs can teach us about digital media	2
Social poetics as processual engagement: Making visible what matters in social suffering	2
The role of migration processes and cultural factors in the classification of personality disorders	2
Historical trauma and oppression: Associations with internalizing outcomes among American Indian adults with type 2 diabetes	2
Experiences of Family Burden in Caring for the Severely Mentally Ill in a Foreign Land: A Qualitative Study of Chinese Immigrant Families in Toronto, Canada	2
Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress	2