Purpose: Worldwide, there have been consistently high or even rising incidences of
diagnosed mental disorders and increasing mental healthcare service utilization over the …

How does developmental psychology connect with (what used to be called) the developing
world? What do cultural representations indicate about the contemporary politics of …

Self-optimisation has arguably become a central socio-cultural trend in contemporary
Western societies. The imperative to optimise our ways of thinking, feeling and interacting …

This paper mobilizes transdisciplinary inquiry to explore and deconstruct the often-used
comparison of racialized/colonized people, intellectually disabled people and mad people …

Perceptions regarding the importance of mental health are shifting at a global level. Once
described as an 'invisible problem'in international development, mental health is now being …

Background Children exposed political violence deploy resources to maintain functioning,
hope and life satisfaction. Objective We sought to explore whether or not children promote …

and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology, and the happiness
industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology …

This article investigates how the problem of human trafficking is represented in the work of
Evangelical faith-based organisations (FBOs) in South-East Asia. FBOs are prevalent but …

This article offers a critical discursive reading of the 2014 Character and Resilience
Manifesto (hereafter the Manifesto), focusing on the sources and legitimation strategies …

This paper presents a novel approach to youth mental health by examining the connections
between young Finnish men's mental health, ideals of masculinity, and public discourses of …