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Integrating Arts Therapies in Zambia: A Reflection on Psycho-Spiritual Cultural Dispositions and their Potential for Healing

South African Journal of Arts Therapies
The arts therapies, including music, art, dance/movement, and drama therapy, offer a promising pathway to integrating Zambia’s rich cultural and psycho-spiritual traditions into its healthcare system.
Nsamu Moonga
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Guidelines for Training in Cultural Psychiatry [PDF]

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020
This position paper has been substantially revised by the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA)’s Section on Transcultural Psychiatry and the Standing Committee on Education and approved for republication by the CPA’s Board of Directors on February 8, 2019.
Laurence J, Kirmayer, Kenneth, Fung, Cécile, Rousseau, Hung Tat, Lo, Peter, Menzies, Jaswant, Guzder, Soma, Ganesan, Lisa, Andermann, Kwame, McKenzie   +8 more
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Functional/dissociative seizures in a single women’s rehabilitation center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a single-center case series and thematic analysis of neuropsychiatric presentation, cultural meaning, and structural barriers to care

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundFunctional/dissociative seizures (FDS; previously termed psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, PNES) are disabling functional neurological events associated with trauma, dissociation, psychiatric comorbidity, impaired functioning, and increased ...
Yared Alemu, Yoeal Kahsay, Fikirte Weldearegay, Lidya Hailu, Tsion Fekadu, Patrick Ohiomoba, Selam Negussie   +6 more
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A clinical analysis of the presentation of depression in Pakistan

BJPsych International
Background Major depressive disorder is a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet its clinical presentation varies substantially across cultural contexts.
Shiza Ihtsham, Abdullah Arshad, Clifton M. Chow, Sobia Qazi, Zainab Mudassar, Muhammad Ebaad Paracha, Basmaa Ali   +6 more
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Dr. Ajitha Chakraborty: The first practicing Indian female psychiatrist (October 31, 1926–May 08, 2015)

Telangana Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Dr. Ajitha Chakraborty, popularly called Ajithadi by her students and juniors who remember her as outspoken, nonconformist, and perfectionist, was born in preindependent India on October 31, 1926.
Manasa Prabhakar
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“We don’t talk about these things”: Asian American Veterans’ lived experiences and perspectives of suicide risk and prevention

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundSuicide rates have increased substantially among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Veterans. However, little is known about the context of suicide risk or how best to tailor care for this population, especially as it relates
Lauren S. Krishnamurti, Joseph Mignogna, Joseph Mignogna, Christe’An D. Iglesias, Carly M. Rohs, Evan R. Polzer, Ryan Holliday, Ryan Holliday, Ryan Holliday, Ryan Holliday, Gayle Y. Iwamasa, Lindsey L. Monteith, Lindsey L. Monteith, Lindsey L. Monteith, Lindsey L. Monteith   +14 more
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Canadian residents’ perceptions of cross-cultural care training in graduate medical school

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2017
Background: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada specifies both respect for diversity as a requirement of professionalism and culturally sensitive provision of medical care.
Barinder Singh, Emma Banwell, Dianne Leonie Groll   +2 more
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Control, power, and responsibility: a qualitative study of local perspectives on problem drinking in Peruvian Andean highlands

Globalization and Health, 2021
Background Alcohol control has emerged as an important global health challenge due to the expanding influence of alcohol companies and limited control measures imposed by governments.
Sakiko Yamaguchi, Raphael Lencucha, Thomas G. Brown   +2 more
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Cosmos-Containing Mental Disorders: Phenomenological Advancing or Psychopathology and Philosophy of Psychiatry

Философия и космология
The study explores the potential of phenomenological psychopathology to describe the experience of individuals with cosmos-containing mental disorders. These disorders are examined through the frameworks of psychiatric classifications such as the ICD-10 ...
Sergii Rudenko, Mykhailo Tasenko, Yevheniia Levcheniuk   +2 more
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Psychiatry and mental health teaching programs of eight portuguese-speaking schools of medicine: A comparative analysis

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundImprovement of teaching methods in psychiatry has been the subject of permanent adaptation and innovation. Strengthening graduate education skills in psychiatry and mental health will allow physicians to have the knowledge, skills, and ...
Maria Rosel Pedro, Antonio Pacheco Palha, Maria Amelia Ferreira   +2 more
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