Despite the large body of research on idioms of distress in anthropology and transcultural
psychiatry, few scholars have examined the concepts that people use to describe social and …

How we interpret concepts from suffering to survival has been historically debated in the
field of anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, and global mental health. These debates have …

A critical health-related issue in war-affected areas is how people make sense of adversity
and why they show resilience in a high-risk environment. In Afghanistan, the burden of poor …

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

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of theoretical perspectives and practical
research knowledge in relation to 'resilience', the resilience of Palestinians in particular and …

Resilience research with war-affected populations has long conceptualized resilience as the
absence of psychopathology and operationalized it by use of standardized measures …

The program of research that I and my colleagues1 have been engaged in, and that I will go
on to describe in the pages that follow was never meant to be about resilience. Nor was it …

The global increase in refugee migration to urban areas creates challenges pertaining to the
promotion of refugee health, broadly conceived. Despite considerable attention to trauma …

The authors report on their multidisciplinary and longitudinal studies of Afghan families that
included paired interviews with adolescents and adult caregivers. The authors argue that …

Contemporary definitions and understandings of resilience refer to an individual's positive
adaptation to the experience of adversity. One of the challenges of this extant body of work is …