Summary Cross-Cultural & Global Mental Health Master Psychology

Contents
Week 1……………...…………………………………………………………………………2
Patel et al. (2018): The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable
development …………………………………………………………………………………...2
Week 2………………………………………………………………………………………...3
Bernal et al. (1995): Ecological validity and cultural sensitivity for outcome research………...3
Chowdhary et al. (2014): The methods and outcomes of cultural adaptations of psychological
treatments for depressive disorders…………………………………………………………….4
Brown et al. (2020): The cultural and contextual adaptation process of an intervention to reduce
psychological distress in young adolescents living in Lebanon………………………………..5
Week 3………………………………………………………………………………………...5
Kirmayer & Ryder (2016): Culture and psychopathology……………………………………..5
Lewis-Fernández et al. (2014): Culture and psychiatric evaluation……………………………6
Cultural formulation…………………………………………………………………………...6
Week 4...………………………………………………………………………………………7
Miller & Jordans (2016): Determinants of children’s mental health in war-torn settings………7
Jordans et al. (2016): Interventions for children affected by armed conflict……………………8
Purgato et al. (2018): Focused psychosocial interventions for children in low-resource
humanitarian settings…………………………………………………………………………..8
Week 5………………………………………………………………………………………...8
Lely et al. (2019): The effectiveness of narrative exposure therapy……………………………8
Kostenius et al. (2022): From hell to heaven?.............................................................................9
Watson & Bhugra (2020): Transcultural psychiatric assessment………………………………9
Van ‘t Hof et al. (2018): A qualitative evaluation of a brief multicomponent intervention
provided by lay health workers for women affected by adversity in urban Kenya……………...9
Week 6……………………………………………………………………………………….10
Patanè et al. (2022): Prevalence of mental disorders in refugees and asylum seekers…………10
De Graaff (2020): Peer-provided Problem Management Plus (PM+) for adult Syrian
refugees ………………………………………………………………………………………10
Turrini et al. (2019): Efficacy and acceptability of psychosocial interventions in asylum seekers
and refugees…………………………………………………………………………………..10
Week 7……………………………………………………………………………………….11
Anglin et al. (2021): From womb to neighbourhood………………………………………….11
Bécares et al. (2018): Ethnic density effects for adult mental health………………………….12
Phelan & Link (2015): Is racism a fundamental cause of inequalities in health?.......................12




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, Week 1
Patel et al. (2018): The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable
development
Although much research has been done on what can be done to prevent and treat mental
disorders, the global burden of disease attributable to mental disorders has risen worldwide.
In many countries, people with mental disorders are still locked away in mental institutions
or prisons, or they are living on the streets. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
may help to reframe the global mental health agenda. The Lancet Commission has reframed
the global mental health agenda from a focus on reducing the treatment gap for people
affected by mental disorders to a focus on improving mental health for whole populations and
reducing the contribution of mental disorders to the global burden of disease. This reframed
agenda is based on four foundational pillars:
• Mental health is a global public good and is relevant to sustainable development in all
countries. All countries can be viewed as developing countries in the context of
mental health.
• Mental health problems exist along a continuum from mild to chronic, and the binary
approach to diagnosing mental disorders used in clinical practice is not an accurate
reflection of the diversity and complexity of mental health needs of individuals and
populations.
• The mental health of an individual is the product of social and environmental
influences interacting with genetic, neuro-developmental, and psychological
processes and affecting biological pathways in the brain.
• Mental health is a fundamental human right for all people that requires an
environment that promotes mental health.
Realising the reframed agenda requires six key actions:

• Mental heath services should be scaled up.
• The barriers and threats to mental health need to be addressed.
• Mental health needs to be protected by public policies and developmental efforts.
• New opportunities should be embraced, including those offered by the innovative use
of trained non-specialist individuals and digital technologies.
• Substantial additional investments should be made urgently because of the strong
economic and health case for increased investments in mental health.
• Investments in research and innovation should grow and harness novel approaches
from diverse disciplines such as genomics, neuroscience, health services research,
clinical sciences, and social sciences.
The UN has several SDGs that pertain specifically to mental health:

• Countries should reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable
diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and wellbeing.
• Countries should strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse,
including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.



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