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

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

What does it mean to live a flourishing life in Soweto? This article investigates how people
residing in Soweto, located in South Africa's Gauteng province, define, experience, and …

Social vulnerability indices (SVI) can predict communities' vulnerability and resilience to
public health threats such as drought, food insecurity or infectious diseases. Parity has yet to …

Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused prolonged stress on numerous fronts.
While the acute health impacts of psychosocial stress due to the pandemic are well …

A syndemic has been theorized as a cluster of epidemics driven by harmful social and
structural conditions wherein the interactions between the constitutive epidemics drive …