Joop T V M De Jong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joop T V M De Jong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joop T V M |
| FAMILY NAME | De Jong |
| SIGNATURE | DE JONG J T V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
More than One I—The Healing of a Patient with Bipolar Disorder with Integrative Psychiatry
In the current study, we address the therapeutic components and the effectiveness of integrative psychiatry with transpersonal regression therapy as alternative and complementary medicine. The treatment of a man with therapy-resistant bipolar disorder was successful with this approach. The process in which the therapist analyses the issues found by the patient in cultural explanations like reincarnation, curse and spirit possession is described. …
Contextualized understanding of depression: A vignette study among the !Xun and Khwe of South Africa
Colonial misconceptions about the absence of depression and the lack of a psychologization of distress among Africans have long been refuted. However, cultural variation in depression in terms of symptomatic expression, conceptualization, explanatory models, and social responses is widely acknowledged. Insight into the cultural variation of depression is useful for providing appropriate care; however, few studies have explored cultural understand…
A review of mental health treatment dropout by ethnic minority youth
A large proportion of treatments in youth mental health care are prematurely terminated by the patient. Treatment dropout can have severe consequences. Since ethnic minority youth are treated less often for mental disorders than other youth, it is important to analyse their risk for dropout and to determine if there are ethnicity-specific determinants. This review aimed to provide an overview of the findings from empirical studies on child and ad…
Change and continuity in Burundian divinatory healing
Traditional healing practices in Burundi are rarely documented within ethnographic literature; further, it is unknown how practices have changed in the last two decades. This paper analyses data based on interviews and observations with seven Burundian abapfumu (diviner-healers), and 14 focus group discussions with community members. The results show that the position of traditional healers towards tradition is ambivalent; giving less emphasis to…
Emic perspectives on the impact of armed conflict on children’s mental health and psychosocial well-being: Applying a social ecological framework of resilience in northern Sri Lanka
Family interventions in traumatized immigrants and refugees: A systematic review
The importance of the family as a unit in the aftermath of trauma necessitates the use of family interventions among immigrants and refugees. While abundant clinical material suggests that family-based trauma interventions are applicable across cultures, very little is known about the extent to which family treatment modalities are effective for immigrants and refugees. We conducted a systematic review of intervention studies that have been desig…
Medicinal plants used by traditional healers for the treatment of malaria in the Chipinge district in Zimbabwe
Local knowledge of medicinal plants in the treatment of malaria still exists in all four villages surveyed and traditional healers appear to play an important role in primary health care services in this remote rural area in Zimbabwe. This explorative survey underscores the need to preserve and document traditional healing for managing malaria and for more future scientific research on the plants to determine their efficacy and their safety. This…
Understanding resilience in armed conflict: Social resources and mental health of children in Burundi
Challenges of creating synergy between global mental health and cultural psychiatry
This article addresses four major challenges for efforts to create synergy between the global mental health movement and cultural psychiatry. First, although they appear to share domains of mutual interest, the worlds of global mental health and cultural psychiatry have distinct lineages. Expanding their horizons by learning from adjacent disciplines would be mutually beneficial. A second challenge concerns the conceptualization of a new classifi…
A meta-analytic review on treatment dropout in child and adolescent outpatient mental health care
Potential treatment mechanisms of counseling for children in Burundi: A series of n = 1 studies
Little is known about the impact and treatment processes of psychosocial counseling in low-income countries. This study aimed to generate hypotheses on key working mechanisms of counseling in Burundi. The authors carried out 11 empirically grounded n=1 studies with children (11-14years) screened for depression and anxiety who received counseling. The authors used quantitative (symptom scales) and qualitative instruments (treatment content and per…
Political violence and mental health: A multi-disciplinary review of the literature on Nepal
A public health framework to translate risk factors related to political violence and war into multi-level preventive interventions
Communal Violence and Child Psychosocial Well-being: Qualitative Findings from Poso, Indonesia
This exploratory study examined the health care system in relation to communal violence-related psychosocial wellbeing in Poso, Indonesia, as preparation for conducting a cluster randomized trial of a psychosocial intervention. We employed focus groups with children ( N = 9), parents ( N = 11), and teachers ( N = 8), as well as semi-structured interviews with families affected by communal violence ( N = 42), and key informants ( N = 33). An inter…
Brief Multi-Disciplinary Treatment for Torture Survivors in Nepal: A Naturalistic Comparative Study
Background: Little is known about the effectiveness of treatment for torture survivors in low-income settings. Multi-disciplinary treatment is an often used approach for this target group. Aims: This study was aimed at examining the effectiveness of brief multi-disciplinary treatment for torture survivors in Nepal. Methods: A naturalistic comparative design with help-seeking torture survivors and internally displaced persons assigned to a treatme…
The impact of a long asylum procedure on quality of life, disability and physical health in Iraqi asylum seekers in the Netherlands
Paraprofessional Counselling within Asylum Seekers' Groups in the Netherlands: Transferring an Approach for a Non-western Context to a European Setting
This article presents the application of a psychosocial care approach, which has been developed for and in a non-western context, within an asylum seekers' setting in the Netherlands. The project aimed to increase access to basic psychosocial care to a target population that experiences difficulties in entering mental healthcare services, by a group of trained peer asylum seekers and refugees. The development of an informal paraprofessional suppo…
Development and validation of the child psychosocial distress screener in Burundi
In non-Western countries, efficient and contextually valid methods of community screening are scarce. The present study describes the validation of a new, brief, 7-item multi-informant screener for conflict-affected children (Child Psychosocial Distress Screener; CPDS). To determine concurrent validity, the CPSD was administered to 65 children and their teachers. CPDS scores were compared with indication for psychosocial treatment based on an in-…
Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence
Given the devastation caused by disasters and mass violence, it is critical that intervention policy be based on the most updated research findings. However, to date, no evidence-based consensus has been reached supporting a clear set of recommendations for intervention during the immediate and the mid-term post mass trauma phases. Because it is unlikely that there will be evidence in the near or mid-term future from clinical trials that cover th…
Effect of trauma on quality of life as mediated by mental distress and moderated by coping and social support among postconflict displaced Ethiopians
Postmigration Living Problems and Common Psychiatric Disorders in Iraqi Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands
In a previous community-based, national study among Iraqi asylum seekers, a long asylum procedure was found to have a higher risk for common psychiatric disorders than adverse life events in Iraq. In the present article, the postmigration period is considered in more detail and evaluated in relationship with psychiatric disorders. Respondents were interviewed with fully structured, culturally validated, translated questionnaires. With the use of …
Cultural Variation in the Clinical Presentation of Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis is one of the lesser-known and more benign forms of parasomnias. The primary or idiopathic form, also called isolated sleep paralysis, is illustrated by showing how patients from different cultures weave the phenomenology of sleep paralysis into their clinical narratives. Clinical case examples are presented of patients from Guinea Bissau, the Netherlands, Morocco, and Surinam with different types of psychopathology, but all accom…
Commentary: Deconstructing Critiques on the Internationalization of PTSD
Mental Health Services in a Multicultural Society: Interculturalization and its Quality Surveillance
The purpose of this article is to present a model to promote and assess interculturalization of mental healthcare services in western multicultural society. We define interculturalization as the adaptation of mental health services to suit clients from different cultures. The suggested measures aim to introduce changes in four contexts: (i) the clinical interface or the relations between the immigrant patient and the healthcare workers and the tr…
The Validity of DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders Categories in South-West Uganda
There is little systematic research on the cross-cultural validity of the dissociative disorders, especially in non-western countries. This study evaluates the fit of the DSM-IV classification and concepts of these disorders with local concepts, experiences and local presentations in south-west Uganda. We conducted focus group discussions with medical students, traditional healers, religious leaders, counselors, community members and other health…
Toward a Culture-Informed Epidemiology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Transcultural Contexts
This article presents a model for research that aims to address challenges in transcultural psychiatric epidemiology. The model involves eclectic application of quantitative and qualitative techniques, namely: focus groups, in-depth interviews, snowball sampling and population surveys. The qualitative methods help provide information on the context of symptoms, illness experience and disease. These methods provide the background information neede…
The Validity of DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders Categories in South-West Uganda
There is little systematic research on the cross-cultural validity of the dissociative disorders, especially in non-western countries. This study evaluates the fit of the DSM-IV classification and concepts of these disorders with local concepts, experiences and local presentations in south-west Uganda. We conducted focus group discussions with medical students, traditional healers, religious leaders, counselors, community members and other health…
A public health framework to translate risk factors related to political violence and war into multi-level preventive interventions
Understanding resilience in armed conflict: Social resources and mental health of children in Burundi
Starting mental health services in Cambodia
Challenges of creating synergy between global mental health and cultural psychiatry
This article addresses four major challenges for efforts to create synergy between the global mental health movement and cultural psychiatry. First, although they appear to share domains of mutual interest, the worlds of global mental health and cultural psychiatry have distinct lineages. Expanding their horizons by learning from adjacent disciplines would be mutually beneficial. A second challenge concerns the conceptualization of a new classifi…
Communal Violence and Child Psychosocial Well-being: Qualitative Findings from Poso, Indonesia
This exploratory study examined the health care system in relation to communal violence-related psychosocial wellbeing in Poso, Indonesia, as preparation for conducting a cluster randomized trial of a psychosocial intervention. We employed focus groups with children ( N = 9), parents ( N = 11), and teachers ( N = 8), as well as semi-structured interviews with families affected by communal violence ( N = 42), and key informants ( N = 33). An inter…
Commentary: Deconstructing Critiques on the Internationalization of PTSD
Contextualized understanding of depression: A vignette study among the !Xun and Khwe of South Africa
Colonial misconceptions about the absence of depression and the lack of a psychologization of distress among Africans have long been refuted. However, cultural variation in depression in terms of symptomatic expression, conceptualization, explanatory models, and social responses is widely acknowledged. Insight into the cultural variation of depression is useful for providing appropriate care; however, few studies have explored cultural understand…
Mental Health Services in a Multicultural Society: Interculturalization and its Quality Surveillance
The purpose of this article is to present a model to promote and assess interculturalization of mental healthcare services in western multicultural society. We define interculturalization as the adaptation of mental health services to suit clients from different cultures. The suggested measures aim to introduce changes in four contexts: (i) the clinical interface or the relations between the immigrant patient and the healthcare workers and the tr…
Emic perspectives on the impact of armed conflict on children’s mental health and psychosocial well-being: Applying a social ecological framework of resilience in northern Sri Lanka
Change and continuity in Burundian divinatory healing
Traditional healing practices in Burundi are rarely documented within ethnographic literature; further, it is unknown how practices have changed in the last two decades. This paper analyses data based on interviews and observations with seven Burundian abapfumu (diviner-healers), and 14 focus group discussions with community members. The results show that the position of traditional healers towards tradition is ambivalent; giving less emphasis to…
Impact of Torture on Refugees Displaced Within the Developing World: Symptomatology Among Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
CONTEXT: Most of the world's refugees are displaced within the developing world. The impact of torture on such refugees is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of torture on Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. DESIGN: Case-control survey. Interviews were conducted by local physicians and included demographics, questions related to the torture experienced, a checklist of 40 medical complaints, and measures of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an…
Starting mental health services in Cambodia
Lifetime Events and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in 4 Postconflict Settings
CONTEXT: Little is known about the impact of trauma in postconflict, low-income countries where people have survived multiple traumatic experiences. OBJECTIVE: To establish the prevalence rates of and risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 4 postconflict, low-income countries. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Epidemiological survey conducted between 1997 and 1999 among survivors of war or mass violence (aged >/=16 years) who w…
Toward a Culture-Informed Epidemiology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Transcultural Contexts
This article presents a model for research that aims to address challenges in transcultural psychiatric epidemiology. The model involves eclectic application of quantitative and qualitative techniques, namely: focus groups, in-depth interviews, snowball sampling and population surveys. The qualitative methods help provide information on the context of symptoms, illness experience and disease. These methods provide the background information neede…
Impact of a Long Asylum Procedure on the Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Iraqi Asylum Seekers in The Netherlands
Clinically, a long asylum procedure seems to be associated with psychiatric disorders. However, data on this issue are lacking. In a national community-based study, using random sampling, we compared two groups of Iraqi asylum seekers, who had resided less than 6 months (N = 143) and more than 2 years (N= 151), respectively, in The Netherlands. Respondents were interviewed with fully structured, culturally validated, translated questionnaires. Ps…
Postmigration Living Problems and Common Psychiatric Disorders in Iraqi Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands
In a previous community-based, national study among Iraqi asylum seekers, a long asylum procedure was found to have a higher risk for common psychiatric disorders than adverse life events in Iraq. In the present article, the postmigration period is considered in more detail and evaluated in relationship with psychiatric disorders. Respondents were interviewed with fully structured, culturally validated, translated questionnaires. With the use of …
Cultural Variation in the Clinical Presentation of Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis is one of the lesser-known and more benign forms of parasomnias. The primary or idiopathic form, also called isolated sleep paralysis, is illustrated by showing how patients from different cultures weave the phenomenology of sleep paralysis into their clinical narratives. Clinical case examples are presented of patients from Guinea Bissau, the Netherlands, Morocco, and Surinam with different types of psychopathology, but all accom…
Commentary: Deconstructing Critiques on the Internationalization of PTSD
Mental Health Services in a Multicultural Society: Interculturalization and its Quality Surveillance
The purpose of this article is to present a model to promote and assess interculturalization of mental healthcare services in western multicultural society. We define interculturalization as the adaptation of mental health services to suit clients from different cultures. The suggested measures aim to introduce changes in four contexts: (i) the clinical interface or the relations between the immigrant patient and the healthcare workers and the tr…
The Validity of DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders Categories in South-West Uganda
There is little systematic research on the cross-cultural validity of the dissociative disorders, especially in non-western countries. This study evaluates the fit of the DSM-IV classification and concepts of these disorders with local concepts, experiences and local presentations in south-west Uganda. We conducted focus group discussions with medical students, traditional healers, religious leaders, counselors, community members and other health…
Five Essential Elements of Immediate and Mid–Term Mass Trauma Intervention: Empirical Evidence
Given the devastation caused by disasters and mass violence, it is critical that intervention policy be based on the most updated research findings. However, to date, no evidence-based consensus has been reached supporting a clear set of recommendations for intervention during the immediate and the mid-term post mass trauma phases. Because it is unlikely that there will be evidence in the near or mid-term future from clinical trials that cover th…
Effect of trauma on quality of life as mediated by mental distress and moderated by coping and social support among postconflict displaced Ethiopians
The impact of a long asylum procedure on quality of life, disability and physical health in Iraqi asylum seekers in the Netherlands
Paraprofessional Counselling within Asylum Seekers' Groups in the Netherlands: Transferring an Approach for a Non-western Context to a European Setting
This article presents the application of a psychosocial care approach, which has been developed for and in a non-western context, within an asylum seekers' setting in the Netherlands. The project aimed to increase access to basic psychosocial care to a target population that experiences difficulties in entering mental healthcare services, by a group of trained peer asylum seekers and refugees. The development of an informal paraprofessional suppo…
Development and validation of the child psychosocial distress screener in Burundi
In non-Western countries, efficient and contextually valid methods of community screening are scarce. The present study describes the validation of a new, brief, 7-item multi-informant screener for conflict-affected children (Child Psychosocial Distress Screener; CPDS). To determine concurrent validity, the CPSD was administered to 65 children and their teachers. CPDS scores were compared with indication for psychosocial treatment based on an in-…
Brief Multi-Disciplinary Treatment for Torture Survivors in Nepal: A Naturalistic Comparative Study
Background: Little is known about the effectiveness of treatment for torture survivors in low-income settings. Multi-disciplinary treatment is an often used approach for this target group. Aims: This study was aimed at examining the effectiveness of brief multi-disciplinary treatment for torture survivors in Nepal. Methods: A naturalistic comparative design with help-seeking torture survivors and internally displaced persons assigned to a treatme…
Political violence and mental health: A multi-disciplinary review of the literature on Nepal
A public health framework to translate risk factors related to political violence and war into multi-level preventive interventions
Communal Violence and Child Psychosocial Well-being: Qualitative Findings from Poso, Indonesia
This exploratory study examined the health care system in relation to communal violence-related psychosocial wellbeing in Poso, Indonesia, as preparation for conducting a cluster randomized trial of a psychosocial intervention. We employed focus groups with children ( N = 9), parents ( N = 11), and teachers ( N = 8), as well as semi-structured interviews with families affected by communal violence ( N = 42), and key informants ( N = 33). An inter…
Potential treatment mechanisms of counseling for children in Burundi: A series of n = 1 studies
Little is known about the impact and treatment processes of psychosocial counseling in low-income countries. This study aimed to generate hypotheses on key working mechanisms of counseling in Burundi. The authors carried out 11 empirically grounded n=1 studies with children (11-14years) screened for depression and anxiety who received counseling. The authors used quantitative (symptom scales) and qualitative instruments (treatment content and per…
A meta-analytic review on treatment dropout in child and adolescent outpatient mental health care
Understanding resilience in armed conflict: Social resources and mental health of children in Burundi
Challenges of creating synergy between global mental health and cultural psychiatry
This article addresses four major challenges for efforts to create synergy between the global mental health movement and cultural psychiatry. First, although they appear to share domains of mutual interest, the worlds of global mental health and cultural psychiatry have distinct lineages. Expanding their horizons by learning from adjacent disciplines would be mutually beneficial. A second challenge concerns the conceptualization of a new classifi…
Family interventions in traumatized immigrants and refugees: A systematic review
The importance of the family as a unit in the aftermath of trauma necessitates the use of family interventions among immigrants and refugees. While abundant clinical material suggests that family-based trauma interventions are applicable across cultures, very little is known about the extent to which family treatment modalities are effective for immigrants and refugees. We conducted a systematic review of intervention studies that have been desig…
Medicinal plants used by traditional healers for the treatment of malaria in the Chipinge district in Zimbabwe
Local knowledge of medicinal plants in the treatment of malaria still exists in all four villages surveyed and traditional healers appear to play an important role in primary health care services in this remote rural area in Zimbabwe. This explorative survey underscores the need to preserve and document traditional healing for managing malaria and for more future scientific research on the plants to determine their efficacy and their safety. This…
Psychiatry (23 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (18 works) · Mental health (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychosocial (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works)