Fortunately, this year had also other things to offer than a raging global pandemic. Here is my pick of the most interesting works in #CulturalPsychiatry and #GlobalMentalHealth in 2020 (thread of 18 links).
Where next for understanding race/ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness? Structural, interpersonal and institutional racism @KSBhui et al https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.13001#.X8AgB0V7f-8.twitter
“Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture (special issue of @transcultpsych) @RossGWhite et al https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tpse/current
Perceived ethnic discrimination as a risk factor for psychotic symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/abs/perceived-ethnic-discrimination-as-a-risk-factor-for-psychotic-symptoms-a-systematic-review-and-metaanalysis/51B6BA1788F06F3A23F33A3572FBA673
Crossing borders: a systematic review identifying potential mechanisms of intergenerational trauma transmission in asylum-seeking and refugee families https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2020.1790283
Higher prevalence of depressed mood in immigrants’ offspring reflects their social conditions in the host country: The HELIUS study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234006
Toward an anthropology of loneliness (special issue @transcultpsych) https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tpse/57/5
Magna Carta for individuals living with mental illness
@geopsychiatry @dineshbhugra https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540261.2020.1753963?forwardService=showFullText&tokenAccess=IFQPYG66SMIWQYXDRPIZ&tokenDomain=eprints&doi=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&doi=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&doi=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&target=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&journalCode=iirp20#.XrLNNjwa90w
@geopsychiatry @dineshbhugra https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540261.2020.1753963?forwardService=showFullText&tokenAccess=IFQPYG66SMIWQYXDRPIZ&tokenDomain=eprints&doi=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&doi=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&doi=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&target=10.1080%2F09540261.2020.1753963&journalCode=iirp20#.XrLNNjwa90w
The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5: Prospects for training, research, and clinical practice
@NeilKAggarwal https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363461520940481#articleShareContainer
@NeilKAggarwal https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363461520940481#articleShareContainer
Cultural Consultation in Context: A Comparison of the Framing of Identity During Intake at Services in Montreal, London, and Paris https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31965486/
CAPE Vulnerability Index @geopsychiatry https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540261.2020.1738093?journalCode=iirp20&
The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and Psychotherapy on Psychological and Economic Well-being
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28106/w28106.pdf
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28106/w28106.pdf
Integrating Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Into Health Facilities in Conflict Settings: A Retrospective Review From Six African Countries https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.591369/full
Special Thematic Collection: Hauntology in Psychological Anthropology https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481352/2019/47/4
Ghost Encounters Among Traumatized Cambodian Refugees: Severity, Relationship to PTSD, and Phenomenology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11013-019-09661-6
Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X19305042#ecomp10
Decolonising global health: if not now, when? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409954/
Will global health survive its decolonisation?
@paimadhu https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32417-X/fulltext
@paimadhu https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32417-X/fulltext
Frantz Fanon’s Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Clinical Work: Practicing Internationally with Marginalized Communities @HelenNeville12 https://www.routledge.com/Frantz-Fanons-Psychotherapeutic-Approaches-to-Clinical-Work-Practicing/Turner-Neville/p/book/9781138611573