Multicultural Psychology Reading List

Jayawickreme, N., Jayawickreme, E., Atanasov, P., Goonasekera, M. A., & Foa, E. B. (2012, March 19). Are Culturally Specific Measures of Trauma-Related Anxiety and Depression Needed? The Case of Sri Lanka. Psychological Assessment. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0027564

Chhim, S. (2012). Baksbat (broken courage): The development and validation of the inventory to measure baksbat, a Cambodian trauma-based cultural syndrome of distress. Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry. Online version. Doi: 10.1007/s11013-012-9279-6

Cheung, F. M, Kwong, J. Y. Y., & Zhang, J. (2003). Clinical validation of the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 15, 89-100.

Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Sasaki, J. Y., Xu, J., Chu, T. Q., Ryu, C., Suh, E. M., Graham, K., & Taylor, S. E. (2010). Culture, distress, and oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) interact to influence emotional support seeking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 15717-15721.

Weisz, J. R., Weiss, B., Suwanlert, S., & Chaiyasit, W. (2006). Culture and youth psychopathology: Testing the syndromal sensitivity model in Thai and American adolescents. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 1098-1107.

Mauss, I. B., Butler, E. A., Roberts, N. A., & Chu, A. (2010). Emotion control values and responding to an anger provocation in Asian-American and European-American individuals. Cognition & Emotion, 24, 1026-1043.

Sabin, M., Lopes Cardozo, B., Nackerud, L., Kaiser, R., & Varese, L. (2003). Factors associated with poor mental health among Guatemalan refugees living in Mexico 20 years after civil conflict. Journal of the American Medical Association, 290, 635-642. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/magazine/how-to-build-a-perfect-refugeecamp.html?hp&_r=0

Tsai, J. L., Miao, F. F., & Seppala, E. (2007). Good feelings in Christianity and Buddhism: Religious differences in ideal affect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 409-421.

Mollica, R. F., Caspi-Yavin, Y., Bollini, P., Truong, T., Tor, S., & Lavelle, J. (1992). The Harvard Trauma Questionnaire: Validating a cross-cultural instrument for measuring torture, trauma, and post traumatic stress disorder in Indochinese refugees. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180, 111-116.

Keys, H. M., Kaiser, B. N., Kohrt, B. A., Khoury, N. M., & Brewster, A.R. (2012). Idioms of distress, ethnopsychology, and the clinical encounter in Haiti's Central Plateau. Social Science & Medicine, 75(3), 555-564. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.040.

Buitrago Cuellár, J. (2004). Internally displaced Colombians: The recovery of victims of violence within a psychosocial framework. In K. E. Miller & L. M. Rasco (Eds.), The mental health of refugees: Ecological approaches to healing and adaptation (pp. 229-262). Mah Wah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Hinton, D. E., Pich, V., Marques, L., & Nickerson, A. (2010). Khyâl Attacks: A Key Idiom of Distress Among Traumatized Cambodia Refugees. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 34(2), 244. doi:10.1007/s11013-010-9174-y

Stark, L., Roberts, L, Wheaton, W., Acham, A., Boothby, N. & Ager, A. (2010). Measuring Violence against Women amidst War and Displacement in Northern Uganda Using the “Neighborhood Method." Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 64(12), 1056-61.

Raviola, G. J., Eustache, E., Oswald, C., & Belkin, G. (2012). Mental health response in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake: A case study for building longterm solutions. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 20, 1-10.

Rasmussen, A., Katoni, B., Keller, A.S., & Wilkinson, J. (2011). Posttraumatic idioms of distress among Darfur refugees: Hozun and majnun. Transcultural Psychiatry, 48(4), 392-415. doi: 10.1177/1363461511409283

Coley RY, Johnson E, Simon GE, Cruz M, Shortreed SM. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Performance of Prediction Models for Death by Suicide After Mental Health Visits. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online April 28, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.0493

Williams, C. C. (2003). Re-reading the IPSS research record. Social Science and Medicine, 56, 501-515.

Jordans, M. J. D., Semrau, M., Thornicroft, G., van Ommeren, M. (2012). Role of current perceived needs in explaining the association between past trauma exposure and distress in humanitarian settings in Jordan and Nepal. British Journal of Psychiatry, published online July 26, 2012. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.102137.

Jana, S., Basu, I., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Newman, P. A. (2004). The Sonagachi Project: A sustainable community intervention program. AIDS Education and Prevention, 16(5), 405-414.

Jenkins, J. H. (1997). Subjective experience of persistent schizophrenia and depression among US Latinos and Euro-Americans. British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, 20-25.

Betancourt, T. S., McBain, R., Newnham, E. A., & Brennan, R. T. (2012). Trajectories of 7 Internalizing Problems in War-Affected Sierra Leonean Youth: Examining Conflict and Postconflict Factors, Child Development. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467- 8624.2012.01861.x

Abramowitz, S. A. (2010). Trauma and humanitarian translation in Liberia: the tale of open mole. Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry, 34(2):353-79. Summerfield, D. (2012). Afterword: Against “global mental health.” Transcultural Psychiatry 49(3). Doi: 10.1177/1363461512454701

Neuner, F., Onyut, P. L., Ertl, V., Odenwald, M., Schauer, E., & Elbert, T. (2008). Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder by trained lay counselors in an African refugee settlement: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 686-694.

Betancourt, T. S., Rubin-Smith, J. E., Beardslee, W. R., Stulac, S. N., Fayida, I., & Safren, S. (2011). Understanding locally, culturally, and contextually relevant mental health problems among Rwandan children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS. AIDS Care 23(4), 401-412. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2010.516333.

Lhewa, D., Banu, S., Rosenfeld, B., & Keller, A. (2007). Validation of a Tibetan translation of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25 and the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire. Assessment, 14, 223-230. doi: 10.1177/1073191106298876.

Khort, B. A., Jordans, M. J. D., Tol, W. A., Luitel, N. P., Maharjan, S. M., & Upadhaya, N. (2011). Validation of cross-cultural child mental health and psychosocial research instruments: adapting the Depression Self-Rating Scale and Child PTSD Symptom Scale in Nepal. BMC Psychiatry, 11, 127. Doi: 10.1186/1471- 244X-11-127

Ortiz, S. O. (1999). You’d never know how racist I was if you met me on the street. Journal of Counseling & Development, 77, 9-10. Full text available online via EBSCO.

Kohrt, B. A. (2008). “Somatization” and “Comorbidity”: A study of Jhum-Jhum and depression in rural Nepal. Ethos, 33, 125-147.