The roads less traveled: MappinG some pathways on the global mental health research roadmap

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 396-417

  Fernando, Gaithri A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; global mental health; research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; VALIDITY;

CULTURE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84866863037     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461512447137     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Adams N, Daniels A, Compagni A (2009) International pathways to mental health transformation. International Journal of Mental Health, 38, 30-45.
2. Alarcón R D, Becker A E, Lewis-Fernández R, Like R C, Desai P, Foulks E, …, Primm A (2009) Issues for DSM-V: The role of culture in psychiatric diagnosis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197, 559-560.
3. Alarcón R D, Bell C C, Kirmayer L J, Lin K, Üstün B, Wisner K L (2002) Beyond the funhouse mirrors: Research agenda on culture and psychiatric diagnosis. In: KupferD J, FirstM B, RegierD A, (eds). A research agenda for DSM-V (pp. 219-281). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.
4. Alexander C, Langer E, Newman I, Chandler H M, Davies J L (1989) Transcendental meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: An experimental study with the elderly. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 950-964.
5. American Psychiatric Association (APA) (2000) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edn. Text Revision. Washington, DC: Author.
6. Bass J K, Bolton P A, Murray L K (2007) Do not forget culture when studying mental health. Lancet, 370, 918-919.
7. Beinecke R H, Daniels A S, Peters J P, Silvestri F (2009) The International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership: A model for global knowledge exchange [Special issue]. International Journal of Mental Health, 38(1), 3-13.
8. Berry J W (1989) Imposed etics-emics-derived etics: The operationalizing of a compelling idea. International Journal of Psychology, 24, 721-735.
9. Betancourt T S, Bass J, Borisova I, Neugebauer R, Speelman L, Onyango G, Bolton P (2009) Assessing local instrument reliability and validity: A field-based example from northern Uganda. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 44, 685-692.
10. T.S., Betancourt, J., Rubin-Smith, W., Beardslee, S., Stulac, I., Fayida, S., Safren, Understanding locally, culturally, and contextually relevant mental health problems among Rwandan children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS, Aids Care, (2011), 24, 1-12
11. Bhui K, Bhugra D (2007) Culture and mental health: A comprehensive textbook. London, UK: Hodder Arnold/Oxford University Press.
12. Deo J M (2003) Psychological outlines of early Buddhism. Journal of Indian Psychology, 21, 1-6.
13. Derogatis L R, Lipman R S, Rickles K, Uhlenhuth E H, Covi L (1974) The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL): A self-report inventory. Behavioral Science, 19, 1-15.
14. Desjarlais R, Eisenberg L, Good B, Kleinman A (1995) World mental health: Problems and priorities in low-income countries. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
15. Fernando G A (2005) Interventions for survivors of the tsunami disaster: Report from Sri Lanka. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18, 267-268.
16. Fernando G A (2008) Assessing mental health and psychosocial status in communities exposed to traumatic events: Sri Lanka as an example. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 229-239.
17. Fernando, G. A. (2009). Bloodied but unbroken: Resilience in Sri Lankans exposed to disasters. Report to The Asia Foundation. Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Asia Foundation.
18. Fernando G A, Miller K M, Berger D (2010) Growing pains: The impact of disaster-related and daily stressors on the lives of youth in Sri Lanka [Special issue]. Child Development, 81, 1192-1210.
19. Garber J, Clarke G, Weersing V, Beardlsee W, Brent D, Gladstone T, …, Iyengar S (2009) Prevention of depression in at-risk adolescents: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 301, 2215-2224.
20. Horton R (2007) Comment: Launching a new movement for health. The Lancet, 370, 806-806.
21. Hussein F (2009) The mental health of Muslims in Britain. International Journal of Mental Health, 38, 21-36.
22. Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L, Bartocci G (2009) Psychiatrists and traditional healers: Unwitting partners in global mental health. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
23. Ingleby D (2005) Forced migration and mental health: Rethinking the care of refugees and displaced persons. New York, NY: Springer.
24. Jablensky A (1985). Mental disorders, alcohol- and drug-related problems: International perspectives on their diagnosis and classification (International Congress Series, 669). Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Excerpta Medica.
25. Jacob K S, Sharan P, Mirza I, Garrido-Cumbrera M, Seedat S, Mari J J, …, Saxena S (2007) Mental health systems in countries: Where are we now? The Lancet, 370, 1061-1077.
26. Kirmayer L J (1997) Culture and anxiety: A clinical and research agenda. In: FriedmanS, (ed.) Cultural issues in the treatment of anxiety (pp. 225-251). New York, NY: Guilford.
27. Kirmayer L J (2006) Beyond the “new cross-cultural psychiatry”: Cultural biology, discursive psychology and the ironies of globalization. Transcultural Psychiatry, 43, 126-144.
28. Kirmayer L J, Rousseau C, Corin E, Groleau D (2008) Training researchers in cultural psychiatry: The McGill-CIHR Strategic Training Program [Special issue]. Academic Psychiatry, 32, 320-326.
29. Kirmayer L J, Young A (1999) Culture and context in the evolutionary concept of mental disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 108, 446-452.
30. Kleinman A (1977) Depression, somatization and the “new cross-cultural psychiatry”. Social Science and Medicine, 11, 3-10.
31. Kleinman A (1995) Do psychiatric disorders differ in different cultures? The methodological questions. In: GoldbergerN, VeroffJ, (eds). The culture and psychology reader (pp. 631-651). New York: New York University Press.
32. Kleinman A (2003) Common mental disorders, primary care, and the global mental health research agenda. [Special section on cross-cultural psychiatry]. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 11, 155-156.
33. Kleinman A (2009) Global mental health: A failure of humanity. The Lancet, 374, 603-604.
34. Kleinman A, Good B (2010) Introduction to culture and depression. In: LeVineR A, (ed.) Psychological anthropology: A reader on self in culture (pp. 112-116). Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
35. Kral M J, Burkhardt K, Kidd S (2002) A new research agenda for a cultural psychology. Canadian Psychology, 43, 154-162.
36. Lamers S, Westerhof G, Bohlmeijer E, ten Klooster P, Keyes C (2011) Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF). Journal of Clinical Psychology, 67, 99-110.
37. Lancet Global Mental Health Group (2007) Scale up services for mental disorders: A call for action. The Lancet, 370, 1241-1252.
38. Marks G, Miller N (1987) Ten years of research on the false-consensus effect: An empirical and theoretical review. Psychological Review, 102, 72-90.
39. Miller K E, Fernando G A (2008) Epidemiological assessment in emergency settings. Intervention, 6, 255-260.
40. Miller K E, Rasmussen A (2010) War exposure, daily stressors, and mental health in conflict and post-conflict settings: Bridging the divide between trauma-focused and psychosocial frameworks. Social Science & Medicine, 70, 7-16.
41. Oyserman D, Coon H, Kemmelmeier M (2002) Rethinking individualism and collectivism: Evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 3-72.
42. Patel V (2006) Closing the 10/90 divide in global mental health research. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 115, 257-259.
43. Patel V, Araya R, Chatterjee S, Chisholm D, Cohen A, De Silva M, …, van Ommeren M (2007) Treatment and prevention of mental disorders in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet, 370, 991-1005.
44. Patel V, Prince M (2010) Global mental health: A new global health field comes of age. Journal of the American Medical Association, 303(19), 1976-1977.
45. Patel V, Sartorius N (2008) From science to action: The Lancet series on global mental health. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 21, 109-113.
46. (2007) The Lancet series on global mental health [Special series]. In: PatelV, SaxenaS, PrinceM, (eds). The Lancet, 370, 859-1252.
47. Pederson D, Kienzler H, Gamarra J (2010) Llaki and Ñakary: Idioms of distress and suffering among the highland Quechua in the Peruvian Andes. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 34, 279-300.
48. Prince M, Patel V, Saxena S, Maj M, Maselko J, Phillips M R, Rahman A (2007) No health without mental health. The Lancet, 370, 859-877.
49. Ramon S, Shera W, Healy B, Lachman M, Noel R (2009) The rediscovered concept of recovery in mental illness: A multicountry comparison of policy and practice. International Journal of Mental Health, 38, 106-126.
50. Ross L, Greene D, House P (1977) The “false consensus” effect: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 13, 279-301.
51. Salerno A, Carroll C, Cruz M, Jue K, Silvestri F, Culebras M (2009) Developing comprehensive community mental health services in developing countries: A practical application in Quito, Ecuador. International Journal of Mental Health, 38, 87-99.
52. Saraceno B, van Ommeren M, Batniji R, Cohen A, Gureje O, Mahoney J, …, Underhill C (2007) Barriers to improvement of mental health services in low-income and middle-income countries. The Lancet, 370, 1164-1174.
53. Saxena S, Paraje G, Sharan P, Karam G, Sadana R (2006) The 10/90 divide in mental health research: Trends over a 10-year period. British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 81-82.
54. Saxena S, Thornicroft G, Knapp M, Whiteford H (2007) Resources for mental health: Scarcity, inequity, and inefficiency. The Lancet, 370, 878-889.
55. Shah A, Beinecke R H (2009) Global mental health needs, services, barriers and challenges [Special issue]. International Journal of Mental Health, 38(1), 14-29.
56. Sharan P, Gallo C, Gureje O, Lamberte E, Mari J J, Mazzotti G, …. World Health Organization – Global Forum for Health Research – Mental Health Research Mapping Project Group (2009) Mental health research priorities in low- and middle-income countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. British Journal of Psychiatry, 195, 354-363.
57. Simon G, VonKorff M, Piccinelli M, Fullerton C, Ormel J (1999) An international study of the relation between somatic symptoms and depression. New England Journal of Medicine, 341, 1329-1335.
58. Somasundaram D (2007) Collective trauma in northern Sri Lanka: A qualitative psychosocial ecological study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 1, 5-31. doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-1-5.
59. Somasundaram D (2010) Collective trauma in the Vanni – A qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 4, 22-52. doi: 10.1186/1752-4458-4-22.
60. Summerfield D (2008) How scientifically valid is the knowledge base of global mental health? British Medical Journal, 336, 992-994.
61. Triandis H, Marín G (1983) Etic plus emic plus pseudoetic: A test of basic assumption of contemporary cross-cultural psychology. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 14, 489-500.
62. Tuhiwai Smith L (1999) Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
63. Van Ommeren M (2003) Validity issues in transcultural epidemiology. British Journal of Psychiatry, 182, 376-378.
64. Watters E (2010) Crazy like us: The globalization of the American psyche. New York, NY: Free Press.
65. World Health Organization. (1946). Constitution of the World Health Organization. Retrieved from http://apps.who.int/gb/bd/PDF/bd47/EN/constitution-en.pdf.
66. World Health Organization. (1978). Alma Ata declaration. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/publications/almaata_declaration_en.pdf.
67. World Health Organization. (1992). The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders: Diagnostic criteria for research. Geneva, Switzerland: Author. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/GRNBOOK.pdf.
68. World Health Organization. (2004). Promoting mental health. Geneva, Switzerland: Author. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/en/promoting_mhh.pdf.
69. World Health Organization. (2005a). Mental health: Facing the challenges, building the solutions: Report from the WHO European Ministerial Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark: WHO Regional Office for Europe. Retrieved from http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/96452/E87301.pdf.
70. World Health Organization. (2005b). Mental health atlas, 2005. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/mhatlas05/en/index.html.
71. World Health Organization Mental Health Consortium. (2004). Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. Journal of the American Medical Association, 291, 2581-2590.
72. World Health Organization, & World Psychiatric Association. (2005). Atlas: Psychiatric education and training across the world. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/Atlas_training_final.pdf.