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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychedelics, placebo effects, and set and setting: Insights from common factors theory of psychotherapy	51
Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations	41
Toward an anthropology of loneliness	30
Refugee mental health and human rights: A challenge for global mental health	29
The socialization of hallucinations: Cultural priors, social interactions, and contextual factors in the use of psychedelics	29
Climate change and Indigenous mental health in the Circumpolar North: A systematic review to inform clinical practice	28
Health professionals’ experiences of and attitudes towards mental healthcare for migrants and refugees in Europe: A qualitative systematic review	22
Deconstructing institutional racism and the social construction of whiteness: A strategy for professional competence training in culture and migration mental health	21
Culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience: A multidimensional model of Chinese resilience	21
Mental health literacy in Ghana: Implications for religiosity, education and stigmatization	19
Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions	19
Escaping the inescapable: Risk of mental health disorder, somatic symptoms and resilience in Palestinian refugee children	18
From idioms of distress, concern, and care to moral distress leading to moral injury in the time of Covid	18
Modalities of the psychedelic experience: Microclimates of set and setting in hallucinogen research and culture	16
Suicide in cultural context: An ecosocial approach	15
Sociocultural contexts of mental illness experience among Africans	14
Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health and future orientation among young adult asylum seekers in Italy: A mixed-methods study	14
Training in cultural psychiatry: Translating research into improvements in mental health care for migrants	13
Benefits and Challenges of Using a Participatory Approach with Community-based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Interventions in Displaced Populations	13
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
Dementia caregiving in the Middle East and North Africa: A scoping review	13
Persistent psychological distress in resettled refugee women-at-risk at one-year follow-up: Contributions of trauma, post-migration problems, loss, and trust	13
Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?	13
“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	13
Psychosis and psychedelics: Historical entanglements and contemporary contrasts	13

Conceptualising and addressing mental disorders amongst Muslim communities: Approaches from the Islamic Golden Age	12
Psychosocial concerns in a context of prolonged political oppression: Gaza mental health providers’ perceptions	10
“It's easy to dismiss it as simply a spiritual problem.” Experiences of mental distress within evangelical Christian communities: A qualitative survey	10
Perceived Discrimination, Experiential Avoidance, and Mental Health among Hispanic Adults in Primary Care	10
Perceiving those who are gone: Cultural research on post-bereavement perception or hallucination of the deceased	9
The Cultural Formulation Interview—Generating distance or alliance? A qualitative study of practice changes in Danish mental healthcare	9
Psychopathology among apprentice traditional health practitioners: A quantitative study from rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	9
“God is a painter”: How Jewish Ultra-Orthodox art therapists and clients perceive mental health treatment	9
Transgenerational trauma in Rwandan genocidal rape survivors and their children: A culturally enhanced bioecological approach	8
The mental health impact of caste and structural inequalities in higher education in India	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
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
An embodied distress: African asylum seekers’ experiences of mental health difficulties while awaiting an asylum outcome in Ireland	8
Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	8
How metaphors shape the particularities of illness and healing experiences	8
Hopelessness and shame in relation to suicide attempts by Cuban adolescents	8
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	8
Radicalization to Violence: A View from Cultural Psychiatry	8
“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	8
A Functional Network Perspective on Posttraumatic Stress in Refugees: Implications for Theory, Classification, Assessment, and Intervention	8
Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England	8
Traditional healers’ explanatory models of intellectual disability in Cape Town	8
“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	7
A systematic review of cross-cultural measures of resilience and its promotive and protective factors	7
Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation	7
Perspectives of university health care students on mental health stigma in Nigeria: Qualitative analysis	7
Practitioner competencies for working with refugee children and young people: A scoping review	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
Psychological distress and anxiety in Arab refugees and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	6
The role of discrimination, assimilation, and gender in the mental health of resettled Somali young adults: A longitudinal, moderated mediation analysis	6
Recounting coup as the recirculation of Indigenous vitality: A narrative alternative to historical trauma	6
Conceptual and methodological challenges in idioms of distress research: Common questions and a step-by-step guide	6
The Challenge of Indigenous Healing for Global Mental Health	6
An interview-based evaluation of an Indigenous traditional spirituality program at an urban American Indian health clinic	6
Transnational evaluation of the Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Scale: Measuring population attitudes toward violent radicalization in two countries	6
Attitudes of key professionals towards people with intellectual disabilities and their inclusion in society: A qualitative study in an Indonesian context	6
Strategic universality in the making of global guidelines for mental health	5
The psychological impact of sexual torture: A gender-critical study of the perspective of UK-based clinicians and survivors	5
Refugee posttraumatic growth: A grounded theory study	5
Psychological distress and terrorist engagement: Measuring, correlating, and sequencing its onset with negative life events, social factors, and protective factors	5
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	5
Critical reflections on the concept and impact of “scaling up” in Global Mental Health	5
New starts at New Start: Recovery and the work of hikikomori	5
Walking Corpse Syndrome: A trauma-related idiom of distress amongst Sri Lankan Tamils	5
Prevalence of spiritual and religious experiences in the general population: A Brazilian nationwide study	5
Psychedelic medicine at a crossroads: Advancing an integrative approach to research and practice	5
Stigma, lost opportunities, and growth: Understanding experiences of caregivers of persons with mental illness in Tamil Nadu, India	5
Development of the Chinese, Malay and Tamil translations of the Positive Mental Health Instrument: Cross-cultural adaptation, validity and internal consistency	5
Macrodosing to microdosing with psychedelics: Clinical, social, and cultural perspectives	5
South Asian youth mental health in Peel Region, Canada: Service provider perspectives	4

Sociality and temporality in local experiences of distress and healing: Ethnographic research in northern Rwanda	4
Understandings of depression among community members and primary healthcare attendees in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study	4
“Hopefully you’ve landed the waka on the shore”: Negotiated spaces in New Zealand’s bicultural mental health system	4
Perspective changes through transcultural mediation training: A qualitative study of trainees, instructors, and experts	4
Self-identification, mode of diagnosis and treatment, and perceptions of relationships with medical providers of South African Xhosa-speaking traditional healers	4
Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables	4
Understanding mental distress in Arcahaie, Haiti: Heterogeneous uses of idioms of distress in communicating psychological suffering	4
Suicidal ideation in an ethnically mixed, highland Guatemalan community	4
Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations	4
Is it pathological to believe conspiracy theories?	4
“An automatic Bible in the brain”: Trauma and prayer among Acholi Pentecostals in northern Uganda	4
“They tell us little and we end up being confused”: Parent–child communication on familial experiences of genocide and its aftermath in Rwanda	4
Finding agency in limbo: A qualitative investigation into the impact of occupational engagement on the mental health and wellbeing of asylum seekers in the UK	4
Evaluation of a training program on the prevention of violent radicalization for health and education professionals	4
Beliefs about causal factors for suicide in rural Alaska Native communities and recommendations for prevention	4
Treatment considerations for foreign-born victims of human trafficking: Practical applications of an ecological framework	4
Grisi Siknis: A cultural idiom of gender-based violence and structural inequalities in eastern Nicaragua	3
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) for screening for depression in the first year post delivery in a low-resourced rural setting in Kenya	3
On epistemic injustices, biomedical research with Indigenous people, and the legal regulation of ayahuasca in Brazil: The production of new injustices?	3
Screening depression and anxiety in Indigenous peoples: A global scoping review	3
Technology and addiction: What drugs can teach us about digital media	3
Loneliness in Kenyan adolescents: Socio-cultural factors and network association with depression and anxiety symptoms	3
Historical trauma and oppression: Associations with internalizing outcomes among American Indian adults with type 2 diabetes	3
“It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native University students	3
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	3
Beyond the language barrier: A systematic review of selective mutism in culturally and linguistically diverse children	3
Lessons learned in adapting an online intervention program for posttraumatic stress for use in Egypt	3
Cross-cultural adaptation of an anxiety measure in a disadvantaged South African community context: Methodological processes and findings	3
“It will always be Temporary”: A qualitative study of Syrian young adults expressing histories of collective violence and forced displacement in participatory theatre	3
The association of mindfulness and depression stigma among African American women participants in a mindfulness-based intervention: A pilot study	3
Association between unmet post-arrival expectations and psychological symptoms in recently arrived refugees	3
Examining the hikikomori syndrome in a French sample of hospitalized adolescents with severe social withdrawal and school refusal behavior	3
Rethinking the moral in narrating trauma: Ethnographic insights on clinical reasoning	3
Building a multicultural peer-consultation team: Planning, implementing, and early sustainment evaluation	3
Transcultural and familial factors in bilingualism and language transmission: A qualitative study of maternal representations of French-Maghrebi Arabic bilingual children	3
‘All in good faith?’ An ethno-historical analysis of local faith actors’ involvement in the delivery of mental health interventions in northern Uganda	3
The roles and impacts of worldviews in the context of meditation-related challenges	3
Evaluating the Indonesia Free Pasung Movement: Understanding continuing use of restraint of the mentally ill in rural Java	3
Knowledge of psychology in Cambodia: Exploring the relationships to demographics, psychopathology, and idioms of distress	3
Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy	2
The role of migration processes and cultural factors in the classification of personality disorders	2
Discussing the unspoken: A qualitative analysis of online forum discussions on mental health problems in young Moroccan-Dutch migrants	2
Inuit wellness: A better understanding of the principles that guide actions and an overview of practices	2
Global migration: Moral, political and mental health challenges	2
Grieving Parents’ Meaning-Making Narration in Relation to Value Orientations: A Cross-Cultural Study	2
“I put a stone on my heart and kept going”: An explanatory model of how distress is generated and regulated among Indian women from slums reporting gender-based violence	2
Echopoetics and unbelonging: Making sense of reconciliation in academia	2
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care: Exploring the attitudes of psychotherapists	2
Contingent universality: The epistemic politics of global mental health	2
Forcibly displaced persons and mental health: A survey of the experiences of Europe-wide psychiatry trainees during their training	2
Understanding Nepali widows’ experiences for the adaptation of an instrument to assess Prolonged Grief Disorder	2
Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress	2
Belief in Brua among psychiatric patients from Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao: Results from an explorative study in the Netherlands	2
Dying in a foreign land: A study of completed suicides among foreign workers in Singapore	2
Cultural poetics of illness and healing	2
The hermeneutics of recovery: Facilitating dialogue between African and Western mental health frameworks	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
Cultural competence in multi-family psychoeducation groups: The experiences of Russian-speaking immigrant mothers of adults with severe mental illness	2
Social poetics as processual engagement: Making visible what matters in social suffering	2
Instruments for assessing sexual dysfunction in Arabic: A systematic literature review	2
The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine	2
‘We are all working toward one goal. We want people to become well’: A visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between community mental health workers and healers in Ghana	2
Two-eyed Seeing for youth wellness: Promoting positive outcomes with interwoven resilience resources	2
Voice hearing as a social barometer: Benevolent persuasion, ancestral spirits, and politics in the voices of psychosis in Shanghai, China	2
Traditional postpartum rituals among immigrant and non-immigrant Chinese women	2
Cultural adaptation considerations of a comprehensive housing outreach program for indigenous youth exiting homelessness	2
Psychometric properties of two mental health screening tools in southeast Liberia: The Liberian Distress Screener and Patient Health Questionnaire	2
Religiosity, perceived anti-Semitism, xenophobia and mental health: Experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Austria and Germany	2
Mental illness, personhood, and transcendence: Spiritual and religious assistance in Catholic psychiatric contexts	2