ArticleTranscultural psychiatry2015
Calming the mind: Healing after mass atrocity in Cambodia.
Article in Transcultural psychiatry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The Role of Integrative Therapies in the Management of Trauma-related Disorders Amongst Refugees.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Review
- Relationships between PTSD severity and suicidal ideation in Cambodian women: The role of individual symptom clusters, trauma types and depression.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Improving recognition of common mental health disorders in Cambodia: Validation of the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 and development of a brief mental health screener.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Developing and testing a community based, online vs. face-to-face peer led intervention to improve mental well-being in Cambodian adults with physical disabilities.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Mental health service accessibility, development and research priority setting in Cambodia - a post-conflict nation.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Development of mental healthcare in Cambodia: barriers and opportunities.International journal of mental health systems · 2020Article
- Global Mental Health and Idioms of Distress: The Paradox of Culture-Sensitive Pathologization of Distress in Cambodia.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
After catastrophic events in which people's survival has been threatened, as happened during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia 1975-1979, some continue to suffer from painful mental symptoms. Surveys carried out in Cambodia based on Western diagnostic categories have found a high prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety symptoms in the population. This study explored Cambodian approaches to healing trauma, examining the ways in which Cambodians appeal to elements of Buddhism in their efforts to calm their minds, situating this mode of coping in the context of broader Khmer Buddhist practice and understandings. Western psychology may have much to learn from local, contextualised methods of dealing with the aftermath of trauma, including Khmer understandings of distress and approaches to relief. Methods of assessment and treatment of distress cannot be transposed wholesale from one cultural setting to another but require considerable cultural adaptation. This kind of cultural interchange may give rise to innovative, hybrid discourses and methods that may have much to offer in the support of victims of organised violence.
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