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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Theories of mind and trauma after war in Uganda	47
Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress	36
Gender (in)equity in global mental health research: A call to action	35
From idioms of distress, concern, and care to moral distress leading to moral injury in the time of Covid	30
A sociocultural approach to understanding collective trauma in Indigenous communities	26
Research on psychotherapy for refugees in Germany: A systematic review on its transdisciplinary and transregional opening	26
Concurrent and convergent validity of culture-specific psychopathology syndromes among Cambodian adolescents	23
Understanding mechanisms of change in a family-based preventive mental health intervention for refugees by refugees in New England	21
The mental health of first- and second-generation migrant vs. native healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The VOICE survey of 7,187 employees in the German healthcare sector	21
Refugee mental health and human rights: A challenge for global mental health	21
An exploration of self-continuity for rural Indigenous youth: Considering the influence of community and cultural factors on perceiving oneself across time	19
When Cotard's syndrome fits the sociocultural context: The singular case of Per “Dead” Ohlin and the Norwegian black metal music scene	19
“It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native University students	16
‘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	15
Communalistic use of psychoactive plants as a bridge between traditional healing practices and Western medicine: A new path for the Global Mental Health movement	15
Help-seeking intentions and depression treatment beliefs amongst Sri Lankan Australians: A survey following a mental health literacy framework	14
Examining the hikikomori syndrome in a French sample of hospitalized adolescents with severe social withdrawal and school refusal behavior	14
Corrigendum to Communication about distress and well-being: Epistemic and ethical considerations	13
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	13
The impact of perceived relationship to ancestors on the association between self-transcendence and psychopathology: A cross-cultural examination	13
Depression and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in mothers 6 weeks to 12 months post-delivery in a rural setting in Kenya	10
Inuit wellness: A better understanding of the principles that guide actions and an overview of practices	10
Mental health literacy in Ghana: Implications for religiosity, education and stigmatization	10
“We have to … work for wholeness no matter what”: Family and culture promoting wellness, resilience, and transcendence	10
Traditional healers’ explanatory models of intellectual disability in Cape Town	10

Belief in Brua among psychiatric patients from Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao: Results from an explorative study in the Netherlands	10
Is it pathological to believe conspiracy theories?	10
People with mental illness stigmatize mental illness less: A comparison study between a hospital-based sample of people with mental illness and a non-clinical general population sample in urban India	10
Mujeres abnegadas: The influence of gender expectations on the psychiatric encounter in Mexico	9
Grisi Siknis: A cultural idiom of gender-based violence and structural inequalities in eastern Nicaragua	9
What words can tell us about social determinants of mental health: A multi-method analysis of sentiment towards migration experiences and community life in Lima, Perú	9
Help-seeking strategies and treatment experiences among individuals diagnosed with Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in Iran: A qualitative study	9
High-risk pregnant women's perceptions of their condition: A qualitative study with an emphasis on psychosocial need	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
A qualitative phenomenological exploration of prolonged grief in New Delhi, India	8
Conceptual and methodological challenges in idioms of distress research: Common questions and a step-by-step guide	8
Cross-cultural validation of the Spanish version of the mini cambridge-exeter repetitive thought scale (Mini-CERTS) in two Spanish-speaking populations	8
A systematic review of cross-cultural measures of resilience and its promotive and protective factors	8
Two-eyed Seeing for youth wellness: Promoting positive outcomes with interwoven resilience resources	7
Engaging with care in an early intervention for psychosis program: The role of language, communication, and culture	7
Perspective changes through transcultural mediation training: A qualitative study of trainees, instructors, and experts	7
Discussing the unspoken: A qualitative analysis of online forum discussions on mental health problems in young Moroccan-Dutch migrants	7
“I had no idea there were psychiatric clinics for children”: A qualitative study of how migrant parents reach Swedish mental health services for their children	7
A qualitative study exploring the epistemology of suffering within a Malaysian Indigenous tribe	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
A Chinese help-seeking model for psychological distress in primary care: An adaptation of Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Services Use	6
“Trust in God, but tie your donkey”: Holy water priest healers’ views on collaboration with biomedical mental health services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	6
Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations	6
Intergenerational conflict among resettled South Sudanese in Australia	6
Eating disorders and related psychological features among Arabs and Jews in Israel: Does culture play a moderating role?	6
Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy	6
The impact of cultural identity, parental communication, and peer influence on substance use among Indigenous youth in Canada	6
Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?	6
Recounting coup as the recirculation of Indigenous vitality: A narrative alternative to historical trauma	6
“I didn’t do it!”: Lived experiences of suicide attempts made without perceived intent or volition	6
Forcibly displaced persons and mental health: A survey of the experiences of Europe-wide psychiatry trainees during their training	6
Measurement properties of the Thai translation of the Recovery Assessment Scale – Domains and Stages (RAS-DS) and comparison of recovery experiences between Thai and Australian consumers living with s	5
Cross-cultural, transnational or interdisciplinary? Eric Wittkower’s psychosomatic medicine and transcultural psychiatry in historical context	5
Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation	5
Pilgrimage for an autism diagnosis: A study of Venezuelan parents’ experiences	5
Instruments for assessing sexual dysfunction in Arabic: A systematic literature review	5
“I base my life on sadness”: Apparently paradoxical sources of resilience among young Haitians	5
Cultural continuity, identity, and resilience among Indigenous youth: Honoring the legacies of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	5
Self-compassion and self-coldness and their relationship with psychological distress and subjective well-being among community-based Hazaras in Australia	5
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	5
An evaluation of early marriage and the mental state of Roma women: A cross-sectional study	5
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	5
Historical trauma and oppression: Associations with internalizing outcomes among American Indian adults with type 2 diabetes	5
Knowledge of psychology in Cambodia: Exploring the relationships to demographics, psychopathology, and idioms of distress	4
Association between unmet post-arrival expectations and psychological symptoms in recently arrived refugees	4
Psychosis and psychedelics: Historical entanglements and contemporary contrasts	4
PTSD, depression, and migration-related experiences among Syrian refugees living in camp vs urban settings	4
Examining community-level protection from Alaska Native suicide: An Indigenous knowledge-informed extension of the legacy of Michael Chandler and Christopher Lalonde	4
First-episode psychosis in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish population	4
Impact of a psychoeducational intervention on willingness to seek help for depression among African American young adults	4

Activist burnout in No Borders: The case of a highly diverse movement	4
Psychological distress and anxiety in Arab refugees and migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany	4
The contagion of mental illness: Insights from a Sufi shrine	4
Establishing veritocracy: Society, truth and science	4
When solidarity hurts: (Intra)cultural trust, cultural betrayal sexual trauma, and PTSD in culturally diverse minoritized youth transitioning to adulthood	3
Technology and addiction: What drugs can teach us about digital media	3
Evaluating the Indonesia Free Pasung Movement: Understanding continuing use of restraint of the mentally ill in rural Java	3
Religiosity, perceived anti-Semitism, xenophobia and mental health: Experiences of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Austria and Germany	3
Susto as a cultural conceptualization of distress: Existing research and aspects to consider for future investigations	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
Disputed expertise and chaotic disinformation: COVID-19 and denialist physicians in Brazil	3
Selective mutism in immigrant families: An ecocultural perspective	3
Starving to death and the anorexic frame of mind	3
The role of migration processes and cultural factors in the classification of personality disorders	3
Towards psychedelic apprenticeship: Developing a gentle touch for the mediation and validation of psychedelic-induced insights and revelations	3
Transnational evaluation of the Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Scale: Measuring population attitudes toward violent radicalization in two countries	3
Cultural adaptations of third-wave psychotherapies in Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A systematic review	3
Psychedelic medicine at a crossroads: Advancing an integrative approach to research and practice	3
The fragility of truth: Social epistemology in a time of polarization and pandemic	3
Suicide in cultural context: An ecosocial approach	3
Critical reflections on the concept and impact of “scaling up” in Global Mental Health	3
Trauma, risk, and resilience: A qualitative study of mental health in post-conflict Liberia	3
Maasai women hearing voices: Implications for global mental health	3
Perspectives of university health care students on mental health stigma in Nigeria: Qualitative analysis	3
The association of mindfulness and depression stigma among African American women participants in a mindfulness-based intervention: A pilot study	3
“How can our children learn from us about our way of life or understand who they are?”: Residential schools and their impact on the wellbeing of Indigenous youth in Attapadi, South India	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
Contingent universality: The epistemic politics of global mental health	3
“It's easy to dismiss it as simply a spiritual problem.” Experiences of mental distress within evangelical Christian communities: A qualitative survey	3
Orphans in post-conflict Liberia: Seeking care in fractured communities	3
Cultural pathways to psychosis care: Patient and caregiver narratives from Puebla, Mexico	3
Echopoetics and unbelonging: Making sense of reconciliation in academia	2
Causal beliefs regarding schizophrenia and help-seeking behaviors among patients with schizophrenia and family caregivers attending psychiatric clinics in Cambodia	2
An interview-based evaluation of an Indigenous traditional spirituality program at an urban American Indian health clinic	2
Perceptions of youth internalizing symptoms: Cross-cultural comparisons between Taiwanese and U.S. mothers	2
Barriers to use of interpreters in outpatient mental health care: Exploring the attitudes of psychotherapists	2
Counter-narratives against hardships among Syrian refugee youth and parents	2
Loneliness in Kenyan adolescents: Socio-cultural factors and network association with depression and anxiety symptoms	2
Cross-cultural adaptation of an anxiety measure in a disadvantaged South African community context: Methodological processes and findings	2
Science and sanity: A social epistemology of misinformation, disinformation, and the limits of knowledge	2
“Hopefully you’ve landed the waka on the shore”: Negotiated spaces in New Zealand’s bicultural mental health system	2
Why local concepts matter: Using cultural expressions of distress to explore the construct validity of research instruments to measure mental health problems among Congolese women in Nyarugusu refugee	2
Distort, post, repeat: Laundering antisemitism on “cliquey networks” during COVID-19	2
Cultural competence in multi-family psychoeducation groups: The experiences of Russian-speaking immigrant mothers of adults with severe mental illness	2
Understanding how classroom drama workshops can facilitate social capital for newly arrived migrant and refugee adolescents: Insights from Denmark	2
The association between exposure to hate speech or perceived discrimination and mental health problems among Korean residents in Japan	2
Culture-bound syndromes, idioms of distress, and cultural concepts of distress: New directions for an old concept in psychological anthropology	2
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	2
Evaluation of a training program on the prevention of violent radicalization for health and education professionals	2
Listening for bridges: Developing a culturally responsive, transdiagnostic approach to psychotherapy for Bhutan	2
Cross-culturally adapting the GHQ-12 for use with refugee populations: Opportunities, dilemmas, and challenges	2