International Journal of Social Psychiatry

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Volume 61, issue 8, 2015

Childhood bullying and healthcare adherence in adulthood pp. 725-728

Randy A Sansone, R Jordan Bohinc and Michael W Wiederman

Communication of a schizophrenia diagnosis: A qualitative study of patients’ perspectives pp. 729-734

Carmel Loughland, Kylie Cheng, Gillian Harris, Brian Kelly, Martin Cohen, Harsimrat Sandhu, Marina Varmos, Tomer T Levin, Carma Bylund, Yulia Landa and Sue Outram

Stressful life events preceding the onset of depression in Asian patients with major depressive disorder pp. 735-742

Subin Park, Ahmad Hatim, Tian-Mei Si, Hong Jin Jeon, Manit Srisurapanont, Dianne Bautista, Shen-ing Liu, Hong Choon Chua and Jin Pyo Hong

A longitudinal study of the health and wellbeing of culturally and linguistically diverse caregivers of people with psychosis in Australia pp. 743-753

Weng Cheong Poon, Lynette Joubert and Carol Harvey

The humanistic and economic burden of providing care for a patient with schizophrenia pp. 754-761

Csilla Csoboth, Edward A Witt, Kathleen F Villa and Cedric O’Gorman

Religiosity/spirituality: Relationships with non-suicidal self-harm behaviors and attempted suicide pp. 762-767

Randy A Sansone and Michael W Wiederman

Social class at birth and risk of psychosis pp. 768-776

Brian O’Donoghue, Felicity Fanning, John Lyne, Laoise Renwick, Kevin Madigan, Anthony Kinsella, Abbie Lane, Niall Turner, Eadbhard O’Callaghan and Mary Clarke

The defeat-entrapment theory versus Beck’s hopelessness theory of depression and suicidality: A cross-national analysis in Iran and the United States pp. 777-780

Mahdieh Tarsafi, Seyed Mohammad Kalantarkousheh and David Lester

Boredom proneness predicts quality of life in outpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders pp. 781-787

Cory J Gerritsen, Joel O Goldberg and John D Eastwood

Surviving, healing and moving forward: Journeys towards resilience among Canadian Cree adults pp. 788-795

Corinne A Isaak, Donna E Stewart, Natalie P Mota, Garry Munro, Laurence Y Katz and Jitender Sareen

Relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and childhood traumas in women with depression pp. 796-801

Sevil Akbaba Turkoglu, Altan Essizoglu, Ferdi Kosger and Gokay Aksaray

Youth, suicide attempts and low level of education: A Danish historical register-based cohort study of the outcome of suicide attempt pp. 802-810

Erik Christiansen, Esben Agerbo, Kim Juul Larsen, Niels Bilenberg and Elsebeth Stenager

Factors affecting stigma toward suicide and depression: A Korean nationwide study pp. 811-817

Soowon Park, Min-Ji Kim, Maeng Je Cho and Jun-Young Lee

What is in a name? Causative explanatory models of postpartum psychosis among patients and caregivers in India pp. 818-823

Harish Thippeswamy, Ajit Dahale, Geetha Desai and Prabha S Chandra

Predictors of vocational status in schizophrenia patients – Results from the Polish nationwide survey pp. 824-831

Andrzej Kiejna, Patryk Piotrowski, Błażej Misiak, Tomasz Adamowski, Agata Schubert, Iwona Skrzekowska-Baran and Dorota Frydecka

Volume 61, issue 7, 2015

Homelessness and mental health: A challenge pp. 621-622

Antonio Ventriglio, Massimo Mari, Antonello Bellomo and Dinesh Bhugra

Does ethnicity have an impact on duration of untreated psychoses: A retrospective study in Singapore pp. 623-630

Sutapa Basu, Mythily Subramaniam, Edimansyah Abdin, Lye Yin Poon and Swapna Verma

The role of relatives in pathways to care of patients with a first episode of psychosis pp. 631-637

Valeria Del Vecchio, Mario Luciano, Gaia Sampogna, Corrado De Rosa, Domenico Giacco, Ilaria Tarricone, Francesco Catapano and Andrea Fiorillo

Experienced and anticipated discrimination among people with major depressive disorder in Serbia pp. 638-644

Ivona MilaÄ ić Vidojević, Nada Dragojević and Oliver ToÅ¡ković

Lessons from the 2004 Asian tsunami: Nature, prevalence and determinants of prolonged grief disorder among tsunami survivors in South Indian coastal villages pp. 645-652

Anto P Rajkumar, Titus SP Mohan and Prathap Tharyan

Mental health of internally displaced persons in Jalozai camp, Pakistan pp. 653-659

Arooj Mujeeb

Applying the CHIME recovery framework in two culturally diverse Australian communities: Qualitative results pp. 660-667

Bianca Brijnath

Sometimes more competent, but always less warm: Perceptions of biologically oriented mental-health clinicians pp. 668-676

Matthew S Lebowitz, Woo-kyoung Ahn and Kathleen Oltman

Psychological strains and suicide intent: Results from a psychological autopsy study with Chinese rural young suicides pp. 677-683

Long Sun, Han Li, Jie Zhang and Qiong Wu

Determinants of subjective and objective burden of informal caregiving of patients with psychotic disorders pp. 684-692

Lena Flyckt, Helena Fatouros-Bergman and Thomas Koernig

The attributable burden of panic disorder in the impairment of quality of life in a national survey in Italy pp. 693-699

Mauro Giovanni Carta, Maria Francesca Moro, Eugenio Aguglia, Matteo Balestrieri, Filippo Caraci, Liliana Dell’Osso, Guido Di Sciascio, Filippo Drago, Maria Carolina Hardoy, Ernesto D’Aloja, Sergio Machado, Rita Roncone and Carlo Faravelli

Type of unit and population served matters when implementing a smoke-free policy in mental health settings: Perceptions of unit managers across England pp. 700-710

Sara Zabeen, George Tsourtos, Jonathan Campion and Sharon Lawn

Romantic relationships and psychological distress among adolescents: Moderating role of friendship closeness pp. 711-720

Chong Man Chow, Holly Ruhl and Duane Buhrmester

Book review: Psychiatry pp. 721-721

João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia

Volume 61, issue 6, 2015

Medicine’s social contract across borders pp. 527-529

Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio and V Vahia

The influence of acculturation on mental health and specialized mental healthcare for non-western migrants pp. 530-538

Annelies Nap, Annelies van Loon, Jaap Peen, Digna JF van Schaik, Aartjan TF Beekman and Jack JM Dekker

Comparing stigmatising attitudes towards people with substance use disorders between the general public, GPs, mental health and addiction specialists and clients pp. 539-549

Leonieke C van Boekel, Evelien PM Brouwers, Jaap van Weeghel and Henk FL Garretsen

Social phobia among long-term internally displaced persons: An epidemiological study of adults in two internally displaced person settlements in Sudan pp. 550-559

Tarig Taha Mohamed Salah, Touraj Ayazi, Lars Lien, Arne Eide and Edvard Hauff

Gender differences in psychological distress in Spain pp. 560-568

M Pilar Matud, Juan M Bethencourt and Ignacio Ibáñez

Self-esteem and fear of negative evaluation as mediators between family socioeconomic status and social anxiety in Chinese emerging adults pp. 569-576

Gang Cheng, Dajun Zhang and Fangyuan Ding

Transatlantic variation in the attributed etiology of psychosis pp. 577-582

G Eric Jarvis, Venkat Bhat, Tomas Jurcik, Vincenzo Spigonardo and Rob Whitley

Role of traditional healers in the pathway to care of patients with bipolar disorder in Egypt pp. 583-590

Tarek Assad, Tarek Okasha, Hisham Ramy, Tamer Goueli, Hanan El-Shinnawy, Mohamed Nasr, Heba Fathy, Dalia Enaba, Dina Ibrahim, Mahmoud Elhabiby, Nesreen Mohsen, Sherien Khalil, Mohamed Fekry, Nivert Zaki, Hani Hamed, Hanan Azzam, Marwa A Meguid, Menan AbdelMaksoud Rabie, Marwa Sultan, Soheir Elghoneimy, Osama Refaat, Doaa Nader, Doha Elserafi, Marwa Elmissiry and Iman Shorab

Ways of coping of Chinese caregivers for family members with schizophrenia in two metropolitan cities: Guangzhou and Hong Kong, China pp. 591-599

Paul CW Lam, Petrus Ng, Jiayan Pan and Daniel KW Young

Self-harm and ethnicity: A systematic review pp. 600-612

Ali Al-Sharifi, Carl R Krynicki and Rachel Upthegrove

The relationship between smoking and unemployment: New avenues for interdisciplinary research pp. 613-614

João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia and Nikhil Masters

Colour, culture and placebo response pp. 615-617

Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio, Alex Till and Gin Malhi

Volume 61, issue 5, 2015

A new hypothesis about increased rates of schizophrenia among migrants pp. 433-435

Giorgi Geleishvili

Micro-identities, adjustment and stigma pp. 436-437

Manuel Wachter, Antonio Ventriglio and Dinesh Bhugra

Experience of stigma and discrimination reported by people experiencing the first episode of schizophrenia and those with a first episode of depression: The FEDORA project pp. 438-445

Elizabeth A Corker, Alina Beldie, Cecilia Brain, Miro Jakovljevic, Marek Jarema, Oguz Karamustafalioglu, Josef Marksteiner, Pavel Mohr, Dan Prelipceanu, Anamaria Vasilache, Margda Waern, Norman Sartorius and Graham Thornicroft

Analysis of the barriers of mental distress disclosure in medical inpatients in Taiwan pp. 446-455

Han Der-Yan, Yi-Yin Lin, Shih-Cheng Liao, Ming-Been Lee, Graham Thornicroft and Chia-Yi Wu

Where are patients who have co-occurring mental and physical diseases located? pp. 456-464

Kristian L Toftegaard, Lea Nørgreen Gustafsson, Richard Uwakwe, Ulla A Andersen, Thomas Becker, Graziella Giacometti Bickel, Bernhard Bork, Joachim Cordes, Karel Frasch, Bent Ascanius Jacobsen, Reinhold Kilian, Jens Ivar Larsen, Christoph Lauber, Birthe Mogensen, Wulf Rössler, Kenji J Tsuchiya and Povl Munk-Jørgensen

Mental health professionals’ perspectives on the implementation of smoke-free policies in psychiatric units across England pp. 465-474

Sharon Lawn, Yi Feng, George Tsourtos and Jonathan Campion

Hikikomori in Spain: A descriptive study pp. 475-483

à ngeles Malagón-Amor, David Córcoles-Martínez, Luis M Martín-López and Víctor Pérez-SolÃ

Intergenerational and cross-cultural differences in emotional wellbeing, mental health service utilisation, treatment-seeking preferences and acceptability of psychological treatments for Arab Australians pp. 484-491

Rony Kayrouz, Blake F Dear, Luke Johnston, Liliane Keyrouz, Edmond Nehme, Roy Laube and Nickolai Titov

Suicidal behavior during economic hard times pp. 492-497

Marta Elliott, Dara E Naphan and Barbara L Kohlenberg

How much orientation towards the host culture is healthy? Acculturation style as risk enhancement for depressive symptoms in immigrants pp. 498-505

Katharina Behrens, Melina A del Pozo, Anika Großhennig, Marcel Sieberer and Iris T Graef-Calliess

Trust and quality of life: A cross-sectional study of young women pp. 506-514

Asiyeh Salehi, Neil Harris, Elisabeth Coyne and Bernadette Sebar

Vocational rehabilitation improves insight and social functioning of people with schizophrenia pp. 515-515

Wei Wang, Guofu Zhang, Man CM Tsui and Da Li

Nonsuicidal self-injury in Indian adolescents: Nonexistent or unacknowledged? pp. 516-517

Shilpa Aggarwal and Michael Berk

Capability to be healthy – Implications for prevention pp. 518-520

Sridhar Venkatapuram, Antonio Ventriglio and Dinesh Bhugra

Book Review: Treatment of child abuse: Common ground for mental health, medical and legal practitioners pp. 521-522

Dominic Cottrell

Book Review: Lean behavioural health: The Kings County Hospital story pp. 521-521

Shuo Zhang

Corrigendum pp. 523-523

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Volume 61, issue 4, 2015

Attacks on mental health care institutions seen as symbol of Westernization: Lessons from history of psychiatry? pp. 309-310

Carta Mg and D Bhugra

‘Ego-dystonicity’ in homosexuality: An Indian perspective pp. 311-318

Ami Sebastian Maroky, Aswin Ratheesh, Biju Viswanath, Suresh Bada Math, Channapatna R Chandrashekar and Shekhar P Seshadri

A comparative study of the economic and social functioning of Vietnamese-Australians with low English proficiency living with psychotic illness pp. 319-329

Yvonne Stolk, Katherine Sevar, Nga Tran, Serafino G Mancuso, Prem Chopra and David Castle

The prevalence and correlates of severe social withdrawal (hikikomori) in Hong Kong: A cross-sectional telephone-based survey study pp. 330-342

Paul WC Wong, Tim MH Li, Melissa Chan, Law Yw, Michael Chau, Cecilia Cheng, Fu Kw, John Bacon-Shone and Paul SF Yip

The depression in women in pregnancy and postpartum period: A follow-up study pp. 343-349

Tulay Sati Kirkan, Nazan Aydin, Esra Yazici, Puren Akcali Aslan, Hamit Acemoglu and Ali Gokhan Daloglu

Depression and health-seeking behaviour among migrant workers in Shenzhen pp. 350-357

Kelvin KF Lam and Janice M Johnston

Psychiatric disorders among a sample of internally displaced persons in South Darfur pp. 358-362

Mahmoud M Elhabiby, Doaa N Radwan, Tarek A Okasha and Eman D El-Desouky

Long-term mental health outcome in post-conflict settings: Similarities and differences between Kosovo and Rwanda pp. 363-372

Ariel Eytan, Naasson Munyandamutsa, Paul Mahoro Nkubamugisha and Marianne Gex-Fabry

Efficacy of a support group intervention on psychopathological characteristics among caregivers of psychotic patients pp. 373-378

Manolis Mentis, Lambros Messinis, Evagelia Kotrotsiou, Nikiforos V Angelopoulos, Christos Marneras, Panagiotis Papathanasopoulos and Euthymios Dardiotis

The impact of insight on social functioning in patients with schizophrenia pp. 379-385

Almila Erol, Hakan Delibas, Ozlem Bora and Levent Mete

Between modern and traditional values: Informal mental health help-seeking attitudes according to Israeli Arab women, primary care patients and their providers pp. 386-393

Liat Ayalon, Khaled Karkabi, Igor Bleichman, Silvia Fleischmann and Margalit Goldfracht

Identifying depressive symptom trajectory groups among Korean adults and psychosocial factors as group determinants pp. 394-403

Tae Yeon Kwon

Religious psychopathology: The prevalence of religious content of delusions and hallucinations in mental disorder pp. 404-425

Christopher CH Cook

Book review: Fostering resilience and well-being in children and families in poverty: Why hope still matters, Normal child and adolescent development: A psychodynamic primer, Mental health for the whole child: Moving young clients from disease & disorder to balance & wellness, Parenting the whole child: a holistic child psychiatrist offers practical wisdom and The madness of modern parenting pp. 426-428

Martin Guha

Book review: Learning solution-focused therapy: An illustrated guide pp. 428-429

Robert Freudenthal

Volume 61, issue 3, 2015

Social justice for the mentally ill pp. 213-214

Antonio Ventriglio and Dinesh Bhugra

What helps or undermines adolescents’ anticipated capacity to cope with mental illness stigma following psychiatric hospitalization pp. 215-224

Tally Moses

Hispanic residential ethnic density and depression in post–acute coronary syndrome patients: Re-thinking the role of social support pp. 225-235

Ellen-ge D Denton, Jonathan A Shaffer, Carmela Alcantara, Lynn Clemow and Elizabeth Brondolo

Longitudinal sex differences of externalising and internalising depression symptom trajectories: Implications for assessment of depression in men from an online study pp. 236-240

Simon M Rice, Barry J Fallon, Helen M Aucote, AnneMaria Möller-Leimkühler, Matt S Treeby and G Paul Amminger

Improving social functioning and reducing social isolation and loneliness among people with enduring mental illness: Report of a randomised controlled trial of supported socialisation pp. 241-250

Ann J Sheridan, Jonathan Drennan, Barbara Coughlan, Donal O’Keeffe, Kate Frazer, Mary Kemple, Denise Alexander, Frances Howlin, Anne Fahy, Veronica Kow and Eadbhard O’Callaghan

Identifying the socio-demographic and clinical determinants of family functioning in Greek patients with psychosis pp. 251-264

Katerina Koutra, Sofia Triliva, Theano Roumeliotaki, Christos Lionis and Alexandros N Vgontzas

Non-suicidal self-injury among psychiatric outpatient adolescent offspring of Croatian posttraumatic stress disorder male war veterans: Prevalence and psychosocial correlates pp. 265-274

Vlatka BoriÄ ević MarÅ¡anić, Branka Aukst Margetić, Suzana Ožanić Bulić, Irena Ä uretić, Hrvoje Kniewald, Tatjana Jukić and Ljubica Paradžik

Psychiatric morbidity and predisposing factors in a primary care population in Madrid pp. 275-286

Banca Reneses, Sofía Garrido, Aida Navalón, Olga Martín, Isabel Ramos, Manuel Fuentes, Jorge Moreno and Juan José López-Ibor

Structured assessment of suicide risk in a psychiatric emergency service: Psychometric evaluation of the Nurses’ Global Assessment of Suicide Risk scale (NGASR) pp. 287-296

Mark van Veen, Inge van Weeghel, Bauke Koekkoek and Arjan W Braam

Continuum beliefs and attitudes towards people with mental illness: Results from a national survey in France pp. 297-303

Matthias C Angermeyer, Aurélie Millier, Cécile Rémuzat, Tarek Refaï, Georg Schomerus and Mondher Toumi

Adaptation difficulties among immigrants pp. 304-304

Siddharth Sarkar and Sagar Bera

Book review: Clinical guide to obsessive compulsive and related disorders pp. 305-306

Patrice Redman-Pinard

Book review: Sitting together: Essential skills for mindfulness-based psychotherapy pp. 305-305

William Wilson

Volume 61, issue 2, 2015

Suggested avenues to reduce the stigma of mental illness in the Middle East pp. 111-120

Ahmed M Sewilam, Annie MM Watson, Ahmed M Kassem, Sue Clifton, Margaret C McDonald, Rebecca Lipski, Smita Deshpande, Hader Mansour and Vishwajit L Nimgaonkar

Pathway to care for psychiatric patients in a developing country: Malawi pp. 121-128

Felix Kauye, Michael Udedi and Chitsanzo Mafuta

‘This doctor, I not trust him, I’m not safe’: The perceptions of mental health and services by unaccompanied refugee adolescents pp. 129-136

Pallab Majumder, Michelle O’Reilly, Khalid Karim and Panos Vostanis

Mental health stigma and attitudes to psychiatry among Bangladeshi medical students pp. 137-147

Noor Ahmed Giasuddin, Itzhak Levav and Gilad Gal

Do the various categories of somatoform disorders differ from each other in symptom profile and psychological correlates pp. 148-156

Sandeep Grover, Jitender Aneja, Akhilesh Sharma, Rama Malhotra, Sannidhya Varma, Debasish Basu and Ajit Avasthi

Caregiver burden is associated with disability in schizophrenia: Results of a study from a rural setting of south India pp. 157-163

Channaveerachari N Kumar, Kudumallige K Suresha, Jagadisha Thirthalli, Udupi Arunachala and Bangalore N Gangadhar

Evaluation of a recovery-oriented care training program for mental healthcare professionals: Effects on mental health consumer outcomes pp. 164-173

Greet Wilrycx, Marcel Croon, Anneloes Van den Broek and Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen

Prediction of adaptation difficulties by country of origin, cumulate psychosocial stressors and attitude toward integrating: A Swedish study of first-generation immigrants from Somalia, Vietnam and China pp. 174-182

Ewa Johnsson, Krystyna Zolkowska and Thomas F McNeil

Psychological morbidity among co-residents of older people in rural South India: Prevalence and risk factors pp. 183-187

M Khurram Malik and Jacob Ks

Coping strategies and self-stigma among adolescents discharged from psychiatric hospitalization: A 6-month follow-up study pp. 188-197

Tally Moses

Understanding dementia in the sociocultural context: A review pp. 198-204

Gabriele Cipriani and Gemma Borin

Is Mainland China ready to implement vocational rehabilitation to re-engage its people with schizophrenia in meaningful worker roles? pp. 205-206

Qian Li, Da Li, Man CM Tsui and Guofu Zhang

Distancing oneself from God among perpetrators of partner violence pp. 207-208

Randy A Sansone, Kenneth Elliott and Michael W Wiederman

Book review: The art of narrative psychiatry pp. 209-209

Laurence Telesia

Volume 61, issue 1, 2015

Adherence therapy following acute exacerbation of schizophrenia: A randomised controlled trial in Thailand pp. 3-9

Suparpit von Bormann, Deborah Robson and Richard Gray

‘We didn’t have a clue’: Family caregivers’ experiences of the communication of a diagnosis of schizophrenia pp. 10-16

Sue Outram, Gillian Harris, Brian Kelly, Carma L Bylund, Martin Cohen, Yulia Landa, Tomer Levin, Harsimrat Sandhu, Marina Vamos and Carmel Loughland

Mental health interventions for traumatized asylum seekers and refugees: What do we know about their efficacy? pp. 17-26

Ortal Slobodin and Joop TVM de Jong

Hearing their voices: The lived experience of recovery from first-episode psychosis in schizophrenia in South Africa pp. 27-32

Anneliese de Wet, Leslie Swartz and Bonginkosi Chiliza

War traumas in the Mediterranean area pp. 33-38

Mauro Giovanni Carta, Maria Francesca Moro and Judith Bass

Patterns of non-suicidal self-injurious behaviours among college students in India pp. 39-49

Naphisabet Kharsati and Poornima Bhola

Logistic regression analysis of psychosocial correlates associated with recovery from schizophrenia in a Chinese community pp. 50-57

Samson Tse, Larry Davidson, Ka-fai Chung, Chong Ho Yu, King Lam Ng and Emily Tsoi

Depictions of auditory verbal hallucinations in news media pp. 58-63

Ruvanee P Vilhauer

Identification of the hikikomori syndrome of social withdrawal: Psychosocial features and treatment preferences in four countries pp. 64-72

Alan R Teo, Michael D Fetters, Kyle Stufflebam, Masaru Tateno, Yatan Balhara, Tae Young Choi, Shigenobu Kanba, Carol A Mathews and Takahiro A Kato

Economic recession and suicidal behaviour: Possible mechanisms and ameliorating factors pp. 73-81

Camilla Haw, Keith Hawton, David Gunnell and Stephen Platt

Beliefs about the causes of schizophrenia among Aymara and non-Aymara patients and their primary caregivers in the Central–Southern Andes pp. 82-91

Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar, Joshua Breslau and Stephen E Gilman

Online social networking in people with psychosis: A systematic review pp. 92-101

Elizabeth Highton-Williamson, Stefan Priebe and Domenico Giacco

The prevalence and correlates of severe social withdrawal in Hong Kong pp. 102-102

Alan R Teo and Takahiro A Kato

Book review: Neurobiology of mental illness, Madness and memory: The discovery of prions – A new biological principle of disease, Psychiatry and heart disease: The mind, brain and heart, The hormone factor in mental health: Bridging the mind-body gap pp. 103-105

Martin Guha

Book review: Education, family and child & adolescent health pp. 103-103

Kathryn Hubbard

Book review: Stay: A history of suicide and the philosophies against it pp. 105-106

Ayat Ali

List of reviewers pp. 107-108

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