Pakistan has a fast-growing, young, and highly religious population. Mental health literacy care in do not meet the population’s needs, mental stigma (MHS) is cited as cause. Explanations for MHS across cultures include collectivism, sociocultural-religious/spiritual beliefs values surrounding illness those who experience it. interventions campaigns that aim to improve help-seeking behaviors re...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether enculturation factors, like cultural activities, ethnic pride and native language competence, are related to decreased internalizing and externalizing symptoms in Indigenous Sami youth from Arctic Norway. The impact of self-efficacy on the relationship between enculturation factors and mental health problems was also examined. STUDY DESIGN Population-based, cross...

These lines from the Dhammapada(Babbitt, 1936) reflect the basic dichotomy in Abhidhamma, the classical Buddhist psychology, between pure (wholesome' or healthy) and impure ('unwholesome' or unhealthy) properties. In this system the factors which compose one's mental states from moment to moment determine one's mental health." The list of healthy factors represents a transpersonal model for men...

INTRODUCTION The lack of trained mental health workers is a primary contributor to the mental health treatment gap worldwide. Despite the great need to recruit and retain mental health workers in low-income countries, little is known about how these workers perceive their jobs and what drives them to work in mental health care. Using qualitative interviews, we aimed to explore factors motivatin...

Virtual Reality (VR) environments have significant potential as a tool in mental health research, but are limited by technical factors and by mental health research factors. Technical difficulties include cost and complexity of virtual environment creation. Mental health research difficulties include current inadequacy of standards to specify needed details for virtual environment design. Techn...