Recent years have seen the rise of historical trauma as a construct to describe the impact of
colonization, cultural suppression, and historical oppression of Indigenous peoples in North …

Objectives The cross-cultural prevalence of somatization and the limitations of current nosology
and psychiatric theory for interpreting cultural variations in somatization are reviewed. …

This article reviews cultural variations in the clinical presentation of depression and anxiety.
Culture-specific symptoms may lead to underrecognition or misidentification of …

In recent years, cultural competence has become a popular term for a variety of strategies to
address the challenge of cultural diversity in mental health services. This issue of …

The notions of resilience that have emerged in developmental psychology and psychiatry in
recent years require systematic rethinking to address the distinctive cultures, geographic …

Current efforts in global mental health (GMH) aim to address the inequities in mental health
between low-income and high-income countries, as well as vulnerable populations within …

This paper reviews some recent research on the mental health of the First Nations, Inuit, and
Métis of Canada. We summarize evidence for the social origins of mental health problems …

Objective The authors examined the effect of patients' style of clinical presentation on primary
care physicians' recognition of depression and anxiety. Method The subjects were 685 …

Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political
challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection …

Health: Deborah Assayag, Elizabeth Barnett, Jennifer Blake, Beverly Brockest, Giovani Burgos,
Glenn Campbell, Andrea Chambers, Angie Chan, Maryann Cheetham, Walter Delpero, …