OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transcultural Psychiatry is 5. 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
Refugee mental health and human rights: A challenge for global mental health	18
From idioms of distress, concern, and care to moral distress leading to moral injury in the time of Covid	18
Climate change and Indigenous mental health in the Circumpolar North: A systematic review to inform clinical practice	17
Culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience: A multidimensional model of Chinese resilience	16
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Conceptualising and addressing mental disorders amongst Muslim communities: Approaches from the Islamic Golden Age	9
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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