Book section · January 1, 2024
This chapter provides a historical overview of anthropological research in the field of mental health. The historical legacies of colonialism influenced early perceptioce of mental illness cross-culturally. Understanding this history can be helpful to heed ...
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Book section · January 1, 2023
This chapter advocates for a mentorship framework that is not solely focused on individual self-promotion but is grounded in addressing the global gap in equity for access to and use of quality mental health services. Engaging with this global mission can ...
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Book section · January 1, 2022
In this chapter, the challenges of applying cultural, biological, and structural models to child maltreatment are discussed. As a prolegomenon toward more biocultural approaches of conceptualizing maltreatment in the field of global mental health, the rela ...
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Book section · January 1, 2022
Research on the measurement of mental illness stigma and discrimination has grown rapidly in the past 15 years with a large number of measures developed. This chapter first defines mental illness stigma and discrimination and highlights the importance of u ...
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Book section · May 22, 2021
This chapter traces the emergence of global mental health as an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide. It identifies the shortages of mental health services worldwide and ...
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Book section · January 1, 2020
In low- and middle-income countries, the number of people with mental illness receiving minimally adequate care ranges from 1 out of 25 to 1 out of a 100. Given this major treatment gap, the World Health Organization and other institutions advocate provisi ...
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Book section · January 1, 2019
In this chapter, we discuss key considerations and best practices for training and supervision for psychological interventions in low-resource settings. First, we discuss what aspects of training and supervision require special consideration in the context ...
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Book section · January 1, 2019
In line with global trends, adolescents in Nepal are at increased risk for developing depression and subsequently are burdened with higher rates of disability and suicide-related mortality. Ethical standards for biological research on adolescent mental hea ...
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Book section · July 1, 2016
REVEREND BILL JALLAH, A LIBERIAN religious leader and agricultural social entrepreneur in his late fifties, and I, an American anthropologist and psychiatrist, stood in front of a room of 34 community health volunteers, nurses, midwives, and persons living ...
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Book section · July 1, 2016
The author uses the story of one Nicaraguan family to show how pensando mucho and other embodied idioms are meaningful ways for family members to express their emotional responses to transnational life across generations and even across national borders. L ...
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Book section · July 1, 2016
Juana entered secondary school in the 1990s. Juana’s peers all had either experienced or witnessed significant domestic violence in some way, a phenomenon disturbingly common in recently post-colonial contexts. Juana and her cohort managed awful experience ...
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Book section · March 26, 2015
Child soldiers can be any person under 18 associated with an armed group and fulfilling many roles that may or may not involve combat. An estimated 300. 000 children across the globe are members of state militaries and other armed groups. Although armed gr ...
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Book section · January 1, 2015
Introduction As psychiatric discourse continues to spread throughout the world, there is a need to ask how psychiatric knowledge is generated, what forms of psychiatric knowledge hold power in different settings, and what determines how knowledge is transf ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
Raj became a soldier in the Maoist People’s Liberation Army when he was fourteen years old. He joined after Maoist youth threatened to kill his father. Raj deserted hisbattalion after two years in the Maoist army. Maoists and the Nepal government signed pe ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
In this chapter, the challenges of applying cultural, biological, and structural models to child maltreatment are discussed. As a prolegomenon toward more biocultural approaches of conceptualizing maltreatment in the field of global mental health, the rela ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
Anthropologists and cross-cultural psychiatrists have examined mental health in cross-cultural contexts by documenting not only symptoms and treatment, but also idioms of distress, culture-bound syndromes, and meanings attributed to brain and mind dysfunct ...
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Book section · January 1, 2014
Somatization historically has referred to the physical presentation of psychological distress. Somatization has been an area of interest to anthropologists and cross-cultural psychiatrists because of prior claims that somatization was more common in non-We ...
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Book section · September 18, 2012
Early childhood experiences are known to influence key biological systems such as brain development, cell growth, hormonal, and immune development, a process known as "biological embedding" that reflects close associations between the social and the develo ...
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