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Beliefs are multidimensional and vary in stability over time - psychometric properties of the Beliefs and Values Inventory (BVI) [PDF]
The cognitive processes underlying belief are still obscure. Understanding these processes may lead to more targeted treatment to better address functional impairment, such as occurs with delusions.
Joseph M. Barnby +4 more
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The COVID-19 pandemic could have major effects on already vulnerable individuals with psychiatric disorders. It is important to assess how different patient groups respond to stress related to the pandemic, and what additional factors influence it ...
James K. Moran +5 more
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BackgroundPsychiatric patients may refer to concepts neither medically accepted nor easily understood to describe their experiences when seeking medical care.
Michael Ioannou +6 more
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A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry
While contemporary psychiatry seeks the mechanisms of mental disorders in neurobiology, mental health problems clearly depend on developmental processes of learning and adaptation through ongoing interactions with the social environment.
Ana Gómez-Carrillo +3 more
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'Culture' is an abstraction, reflecting the total way of life of a society. Culture uniquely influences mental health of people living in a given society. Similarity in thinking and understanding of mental health across the ancient cultures has been observed.
Gautam, Shiv, Jain, Nikhil
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How ‘culture bound’ is ‘cultural psychiatry’? [PDF]
Cultural psychiatry as a clinical specialty sprung mainly from Europe and North America, in order to respond to growing concerns of ethnic minorities in high-income countries. Academic psychiatrists pursuing comparative international studies on mental health, together with medical anthropologists conducting clinical ethnographies, contributed to its ...
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Ian Hacking uses the looping effect to describe how classificatory practices in the human sciences interact with the classified people. While arguably this interaction renders the affected human kinds unstable and hence different from natural kinds ...
Vesterinen Tuomas
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The World Psychiatry Exchange Program: insights from Tunisians in India
The World Psychiatry Exchange Program offers opportunities overseas for early career psychiatrists (ECPs), fostering immersion in clinical and cultural contexts. In this article, we present the experiences of two Tunisian ECPs in India.
Mona Daoud +4 more
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Religious and Spiritual Delusions in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Prevalence and Clinical Correlates [PDF]
Background: Psychotic disorders, particularly those within the schizophrenia spectrum, are conventionally understood in terms of pathology, focusing on hallucinations, delusions, and cognitive disorganization.
Prashant Sangle +4 more
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Background Although social and structural inequalities associated with COVID-19 have been documented since the start of the pandemic, few studies have explored the association between pandemic-specific risk factors and the mental health of minority ...
Diana Miconi +6 more
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