Research
If you would like to add a research paper that will benefit Tasmanian Transcultural Mental Health Network members, please feel free to contact us.
Where possible, links have been provided however please note some papers may require journal access via subscription.
- Alemi, Q., Weller, S.C., Montgomery, S. & James, S. (2016) Afghan Refugee Explanatory Models of Depression: Exploring Core Cultural Beliefs and Gender Variations, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
- Alisic, E. et al (2015), Psychosocial Care for Injured Children: Worldwide Survey among Hospital Emergency Department Staff, Journal of Pediatrics
- Belihu, F.B., Davey M., & Small, R. (2016), Perinatal health outcomes of East African immigrant populations in Victoria, Australia: a population based study, BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Berry, J. and Sam, D. (2013) Accommodating Cultural Diversity and Achieving Equity, European Psychologist, 18(3), 151-157
- Bowles, R. (2013), ‘Ethical issues in Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy’, CQ: The CAPA Quarterly, May 2013, 14-31
- Braun, S. (2015), 'Remote Interpreting', in H. Mikkelson & R. Jourdenais (Eds) Routledge Handbook of Interpreting, London/New York Routledge
- Cameron, G., Frydenberg, E., & Jackson, A. (2016) 'How Young Refugees Cope with Conflict in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Urban Schools', Australian Psychologist
- Campbell, O. (2016), Caring for refugee women: A brief summary of the research and midwifery practice implications, Australian Midwifery News, Vol. 16:1, pp 30-31
- Colucci, E., Minas, H., Szwarc, J., Guerra, C., & Paxton, G. (2015) 'In or out? Barriers and facilitators to refugee-background young people accessing mental health services', Transcultural Psychiatry, 52(6), 766-790
- Colucci, E., Szwarc, J., Minas, H., Paxton, G., and Guerra, C. (2014) The utilisation of mental health services by children and young people from a refugee background: A systematic literature review, International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 7(1), 86-108
- Cover, R (2016) Suicides of the Marginalised: Cultural Approaches to Suicide, Minorities and Relationality, Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 22, No.2 September 2016
- Dein, S. and Bhui, K. (2013) At the crossroads of anthropology and epidemiology: Current research in cultural psychiatry in the UK, Transcultural Psychiatry, 50(6), 769-791
- El-Murr, A (2018) Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Refugee Communities, CFCA Paper No. 50 Australian Institute of Family Studies, December 2018
- Gartley, T. & Due, C. (2015) 'The interpreter is not an invisible being: a thematic analysis of the impact of interpreters in mental health service provision with refugee clients', Australian Psychologist
- George, M. (2013) 'Sri Lankan Tamil refugee experiences: A qualitative analysis', International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 6(3), 170-182
- Gernhardt, A., Rübeling, H., and Keller, H. (2013) '“This Is My Family”: Differences in Children’s Family Drawings Across Cultures', Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(7), 1166-1183
- Guajardo, M.G.U., Slewa-Younan, S., & Santalucia, Y. (2016) 'Important considerations when providing mental health first aid to Iraqi refugees in Australia: a Delphi study', Journal of Mental Health, Volume 10:54
- Haaken, J. and O’Neill, M. (2014) Moving images: Psychoanalytically informed visual methods in documenting the lives of women migrants and asylum seekers, Journal of Health Psychology,19(1), 79-89
- Harper, S.G. (2015) 'Keystone characteristics that support cultural resilience in Karen refugee parents', Cultural Studies of Science Education
- Hirani, K., Payne, D., Mutch, R., & Cherian, S. (2015) 'Health of adolescent refugees resettling in high-income countries', Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Kaplan, I., Stolk, Y., Valibhoy, M., Tucker, A., & Baker, J. (2015) 'Cognitive assessment of refugee children: Effects of trauma and new language acquisition', Transcultural psychiatry
- Kaplan, I., Stow, H.D., & Szwarc, J. (2016) 'Responding to the Challenges of Providing Mental Health Services to Refugees: An Australian Case Report', Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Volume 27, Number 3, August 2016
- Khawaja, N., Ramirez, E., and Prasad-Ildes, R. (2013) 'Building resilience in transcultural adults (BRiTA): Developing a novel preventative intervention', Advances in Mental Health, 11(3), 302-312
- Kira I.A., Lewandowski L., Ashby J.S., & Omidy J.Z. (2015) 'Development and Piloting the MMMM Ecological Interactive Open Systems Model: A prospective One-Year Treatment Outcome of Children of Tortured Refugees', Psych, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 1277-1296
- Kuowei Tay A., Rees S., Chen J., Kareth M., & Silove D. (2015) 'Pathways involving traumatic losses, worry about family, adult separation anxiety and posttraumatic stress symptoms amongst refugees from West Papua', Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Liddell B., Chey T., Silove D., Phan,T., Giao, N., & Steel, Z. (2013) Patterns of risk for anxiety-depression amongst Vietnamese-immigrants: A comparison with source and host populations. BMC Psychiatry, 13(1), 329. Lin, S. (2013). Beliefs about causes, symptoms, and stigma associated with severe mental illness among ‘highly acculturated’ Chinese-American patients. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 59, 745-751
- Macnamara, J. & Camit, M., (2016) Effective CALD community health communication through research and collaboration: an exemplar case study, Communication Research and Practice, pp.1-21
- Mähönen, T. & Jasinskaja-Lahti, I. (2013) Acculturation expectations and experiences as predictors of ethnic migrants’ psychological well-being, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(5), 786-806
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McCann, T.V., Mugavin, J., Renzaho, A. & Lubman, D.I., (2016) Sub-Saharan African migrant youths' help-seeking barriers and facilitators for mental health and substance use problems: a qualitative study, BMC Psychiatry, 16(1), p.1
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Mölsäab, M. Kuittinenc, S. Tiilikainend, M. Honkasaloef, M. & Punamäkic, R. (2016) ‘Mental health among older refugees: the role of trauma, discrimination, and religiousness’, Aging & Mental Health
- Murray, K., Davidson, G., Schweitzer, R. (2008) ‘Psychological Wellbeing of Refugees Resettling in Australia: a literature review prepared for The Australian Psychological Society’, Australian Psychological Society
- Ngai, A., Bozza, A., Zhang, H., Chen, C., and Bennett, P. (2014) 'Transition between cultures? Beliefs and attitudes of British and Chinese young adults living in China and the UK towards mental health disorders', International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 7(1), 28-42
- Ogunsiji, O., (2016) Australian midwives' perspectives on managing obstetric care of women living with female genital circumcision/mutilation, Health Care for Women International
- Patel, S., Firmender, W., & Snowden, L. (2013) Qualitative evaluation of mental health services for clients with limited English proficiency, International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 7(1), 27
- Pittaway E.E., Bartolomei L., & Doney G. (2015) 'The Glue that Binds: an exploration of the way resettled refugee communities define the experience social capital', Community Development Journal
- Procter, N., De Leo, D. and Newman, L. (2013) Suicide and self-harm prevention for people in immigration detention, Medical Journal of Australia, 199(11), 730-732
- Quinlin, R., Schweitzer, R., Khawaja, N.G., & Griffin, J. (2015) 'Evaluation of a school-based creative arts therapy programme for adolescents from a refugee background', The Arts in Psychotherapy
- Reis, R. (2013) 'Children enacting idioms of witchcraft and spirit possession as a response to trauma: Therapeutically beneficial, and for whom?', Transcultural Psychiatry, 50(5), 622-643
- Russo, A., Lewis, B., Joyce, A., Crockett, B., & Luchters, S. (2015) 'A qualitative exploration of the emotional wellbeing and support needs of new mothers from Afghanistan living in Melbourne, Australia', BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, vol. 15:197
- Savic M., Chur-Hansen A., Afzal Mahmood M., & Moore V.M. (2015) ''We don't have to go and see a special person to solve this problem': Trauma, mental health beliefs and processes for addressing 'mental health issues' among Sudanese refugees in Australia', International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Sirin, S.R. and Rogers-Sirin, L. (2015) 'The Educational and Mental Health Needs of Syrian Refugee Children', Washington DC: Migration Policy Research
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Spiller, T.R. Schick, M. Schnyder, U. Bryant, R.A. Nickerson, A. & Morina, N. (2016) ‘Somatisation and anger are associated with symptom severity of posttraumatic stress disorder in severely traumatised refugees and asylum seekers’, Swiss Medical Weekly
- Sunderland N., Istvandity L., Lakhani A., Lenette C., Procopis B., & Caballero P. (2015) 'They [do more than] Interrupt us from Sadness: Exploring the impact of participatory music making on social determinants of health and wellbeing for refugees in Australia', Health, Culture and Society, Volume 8, No.1
- Tay K., Fromme, N., Hunter J., Silove D., Pearson L., San Roque M., Redman R., Bryant R.A., Manicavasagar V., & Steel Z. (2013) A mixed-method study of expert psychological evidence submitted for a cohort of asylum seekers undergoing refugee status determination in Australia, Social Science and Medicine, 98, 106-15
- Tribe, R. & Lane, P. (2009) Working with interpreters across language and culture in mental health, Journal of Mental Health, June 2009; 18(3); 233-241
- Triggs, G. (2013) Mental health and immigration detention, Medical Journal of Australia, 199(11), 721-722
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Ugurlu, N., Akca, L. & Acarturk, C. (2016) ‘An art therapy intervention for symptoms of post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety among Syrian refugee children’, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies: An International Interdisciplinary Journal for Research, Policy and Care
- Valibhoy, M.C., kaplan, I., Szwarc, J. (2016) '"It comes down to just how human someone can be": A qualitative study with young people from refugee backgrounds about their experiences of Australian mental health services', Transcultural Psychiatry
- Vaughan, C., Davis, E., Murdolo, A., Chen, J., Murray, L., Block, K., Quiazon, R., & Warr, D. (2015) Promoting community-led responses to violence against immigrant and refugee women in metropolitan and regional Australia: The ASPIRE Project (State of Knowledge Paper 7). Sydney: Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety
- Vitale, A. & Ryde, J. (2016) ‘Promoting male refugees’ mental health after they have been granted leave to remain (refugee status)’, International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol 18:2, pp 106-125
- Wintrob, R. (2013) Reflections on current research and future challenges in cultural psychiatry, Transcultural Psychiatry, 50(6), 765-768
- Yaser, A. Slewa-Younan, S. Smith, C.A. Olson, R.E. Uribe Guajardo, M.G. & Mond, J. (2016) ‘Beliefs and knowledge about post-traumatic stress disorder amongst resettled Afghan refugees in Australia’, International Journal of Mental Health Systems, Vol 10: 31
- Yelland, J., Biro, M.A., Dawson, W. et al (2016) 'Bridging the language gap: a co-designed quality improvement project to engage professional interpreters for women during labour', Australian Health Review
- Zubaran, C., Foresti, K. & de Moore, G. (2013) Aborigines, colonizers and newcomers: The landscape of transcultural psychiatry research in Australia, Transcultural Psychiatry, 50(6), 876-899
- Zwi, K., Morton, N., Woodland, L. et al (2016) 'Screening and Primary Care Access for Newly Arrived Paediatric Refugees in regional Australia: A 5 year Cross-sectional Analysis (2007-12)', Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
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