As psychological resilience has been increasingly recognized as contextually constructed,
mixed methods studies that map out local ecologies of resilience have become increasingly …

The population of sub-Saharan children and adolescents is substantial and growing. Even
though most of this population is vulnerable, there is no comprehensive understanding of …

BackgroundSouth Africa's national lockdown introduced serious threats to public mental
health in a society where one in three individuals develops a psychiatric disorder during …

The contributions to this issue of Transcultural Psychiatry on cultural concepts of distress
show how much work on this topic has evolved and equally what remains to be done. In this …

Early cross-cultural psychiatry was concerned with the study of cultural difference to make
possible the application of biomedical psychiatric categories in non-Western settings. In the …

The current paper examines whether resilience-promoting interventions lead to increased
self-reported resilience relative to a control group. The literature search was conducted …

Background People living with multimorbidity in economically precarious circumstances in
low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience a high workload trying to meet self …

South Africa's national lockdown introduced serious threats to public mental health in a
society where one in three individuals develop a psychiatric disorder during their life. We …

Sociocultural factors largely shape how communities conceptualize, express, and respond
to mental and relational health problems. This paper reviews and summarizes literature on …

Idioms of distress have been employed in psychological anthropology and global mental
health to solicit localized understandings of suffering. The idiom “thinking too much” is …