Here is a list of additional readings categorized by topics you may find in abnormal psychology textbooks.
- Culture and Psychopathology: General view
- Stress and Physical and Mental Health
- Panic, Anxiety, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Mood Disorders and Suicide
- Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
- Eating Disorders and Obesity
- Personality Disorders
- Substance-Related Disorders
- Sexual Variants, Abuse, and Dysfunctions
- Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
- Neurocognitive Disorders
- Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
- Cultural neuroscience
- Racism, discrimination, and migration
- Research Methods
- Culture-Bound Syndromes
- Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
- Therapy & Healing
1. Culture and Psychopathology: General view
Kirmayer, L. J., & Ryder, A. G. (2016). Culture and psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 143-148.
2. Stress and Physical and Mental Health
Baker, B., Richter, A., & Anand, S. S. (2001). From the Heartland: Culture, Psychological Factors, and Coronary Heart Disease. In S. S. Kazarian & D. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 141–162). San Diego: Academic Press.
Gotay, C. C., Muraoka, M., & Holup, J. (2001). Cultural Aspects of Cancer Prevention and Control. In S. S. Kazarian & D. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 163–193). San Diego: Academic Press.
Kazarian, S. S., & Evans, D. R. (2001). Health Psychology and Culture: Embracing the 21st Century. In S. S. Kazarian & D. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 3–43). San Diego: Academic Press.
Korol, C. T., & Craig, K. D. (2001). Pain from the Perspectives of Health Psychology and Culture In S. S. Kazarian & D. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 241–265). San Diego: Academic Press.
Schwartz, S. J., Montgomery, M. J., & Briones, E. (2006). The role of identity in acculturation among immigrant people: Theoretical propositions, empirical questions, and applied recommendations. Human development,49(1), 1-30.
Wise, E. A., Carmichael, S. K., Belar, C. D., Jordan, C. B., & Berlant, N. E. (2001). Women’s Health: A Cultural Perspective. In S. S. Kazarian & D. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 445–473). San Diego: Academic Press.
3. Panic, Anxiety, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
De Jong, J. T. V. M. (2005). Deconstructing critiques on the internationalization of PTSD. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 29, 361–370.
de Silva, P. (2006). Culture and obsessive–compulsive disorder. Psychiatry,5(11), 402-404.
Hofmann, S. G., Asnaani, A., & Hinton, D. E. (2010). Cultural aspects in social anxiety and social anxiety disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 27(12), 1117-1127.
Nedeljkovic, M., Moulding, R., Foroughi, E., Kyrios, M., & Doron, G. (2012). Cultural issues in understanding and treating obsessive compulsive and spectrum disorders. In G. Steketee, Gail (Ed.) Oxford handbook of obsessive compulsive and spectrum disorders. (1-66). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Mood Disorders and Suicide
Kazarian, S. S., & Persad, E. (2001). Cultural Issues in Suicidal Behavior. In S. S. Kazarian & D. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 267–302). San Diego: Academic Press.
5. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
Lee, S., & Kleinman, A. (2007). Are somatoform disorders changing with time? The case of neurasthenia in China. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(9), 846–849.
6. Eating Disorders and Obesity
Becker, A. E. (2007). Culture and eating disorders classification. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 40(S3), S111-S116.
7. Personality Disorders
Lewis-Fernández, R., & Kleinman, A. (1994). Culture, personality, and psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103(1), 67-71.
Paris, J. (1998). Personality disorders in sociocultural perspective. Journal of personality disorders, 12(4), 289-301.
8. Substance-Related Disorders
Abbott, P., & Chase, D. M. (2008). Culture and substance abuse impact of culture affects approach to treatment. Psychiatric Times, 25(1), 43-46.
Heath, D. B. (2001). Culture and substance abuse. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24(3), 479-496.
9. Sexual Variants, Abuse, and Dysfunctions
Bhugra, D., & Silva, P. D. (1993). Sexual dysfunction across cultures. International Review of Psychiatry, 5(2-3), 243-252.
10. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Kalra, G., Bhugra, D., & Shah, N. (2012). Cultural aspects of schizophrenia.International Review of Psychiatry, 24(5), 441-449.
Kulhara, P., & Chakrabarti, S. (2001). Culture and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24(3), 449-464.
Myers, N. L. (2011). Update: Schizophrenia across cultures. Current Psychiatry Reports, 13(4), 305-311.
11. Neurocognitive Disorders
12. Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
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(6), 1098.
13. Racism, discrimination, and migration
Chou, T., Asnaani, A., & Hofmann, S. G. (2012). Perception of racial discrimination and psychopathology across three U.S. ethnic minority groups. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 18(1), 74-81.
Major, B., Mendes, W. B., & Dovidio, J. F. (2013). Intergroup relations and health disparities: a social psychological perspective. Health Psychology,32(5), 514.
14. Cultural neuroscience
Choudhury, S., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2009). Cultural neuroscience and psychopathology: Prospects for cultural psychiatry. Progress in brain research,178, 263-283.
15. Research methods
16. Culture-Bound syndromes
Isaac, D. (2013). Culture‐bound syndromes in mental health: a discussion paper. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing, 20(4), 355-361.
Ventriglio, A., Ayonrinde, O., & Bhugra, D. (2015). Relevance of culture‐bound syndromes in the 21st century. Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences.
17. Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
Draguns, J. G., & Tanaka-Matsumi, J. (2003). Assessment of psychopathology across and within cultures: Issues and findings. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 755-776.
Kirmayer, L. J., Fung, K., Rousseau, C., Lo, H. T., Menzies, P., Guzder, J., … & McKenzie, K. (2012). Guidelines for training in cultural psychiatry. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 57(3), 1-16.
Kirmayer, L. J., Rousseau, C., Jarvis, G. E., & Guzder, J. (2003). The cultural context of clinical assessment. Psychiatry, 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley, 19-29.
Kleinman, A., & Benson, P. (2006). Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it. PLoS Med, 3(10), e294.
18. Therapy & Healing
Hall, G. C. N. (2001). Psychotherapy research with ethnic minorities: Empirical, ethical, and conceptual issues. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69(3), 502-510.
Kirmayer, L. J. (2007). Psychotherapy and the cultural concept of the person. Transcultural Psychiatry, 44, 232-257.
Lau, A. S., Chang, D. F., & Okazaki, S. (2010). Methodological challenges in treatment outcome research with ethnic minorities. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16, 573-580.
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