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 2020-10-01 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
The socialization of hallucinations: Cultural priors, social interactions, and contextual factors in the use of psychedelics	29
Refugee mental health and human rights: A challenge for global mental health	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
Culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience: A multidimensional model of Chinese resilience	21
Deconstructing institutional racism and the social construction of whiteness: A strategy for professional competence training in culture and migration mental health	21
Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions	19
Mental health literacy in Ghana: Implications for religiosity, education and stigmatization	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
“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
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
“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
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
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