Amrita Deb
Biographic Data
| ID | 76954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amrita Deb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amrita |
| FAMILY NAME | Deb |
| SIGNATURE | DEB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3851-9089 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Faith-based Practices in Therapy
Addressing clients’ faith-based practices (FBPs) is indispensable in psychotherapy, especially in a religiously diverse country like India. This can be particularly challenging in contexts where psychotherapy is highly stigmatized and FBPs are culturally accepted. A review of the literature highlighted a gap in research on how psychotherapists negotiate FBPs in the Indian context. This pilot qualitative study aims to address this gap by exploring…
Latent Profiles and Correlates of Mental Health Stigma in India
BACKGROUND: Stigma toward mental health problems is now being understood as a context-dependent, multidimensional concept. Nonetheless, empirical research continues to study stigma as a monolithic aspect, obscuring meaningful within-group variations. Such inquiries often obscure the people-centered patterns of stigma within the population. Recognizing such patterns aids in better understanding how stigma differentially influences help-seeking and…
Professional identity formation among mental health professionals in India
A wide range of professionals with diverse training and disciplinary orientations are considered mental health professionals. This can result in an ambiguous professional identity, role confusion, and professional tensions. Recent studies explore the implications of role confusion and professional tensions on mental health service delivery. However, there is a dearth of research on how systemic factors, such as laws and policies, influence profes…
Emotional and Verbal Child Abuse in India
Self-silencing in the Indian socio-cultural context
Self-silencing is the tendency of individuals to behave in ways involving inhibition of self-expression and sacrificing one’s own needs to avoid conflict and gain acceptance from others in close relationships. Currently, there is limited research on the contextual and socio-cultural factors that influence self-silencing, especially in collectivistic cultures such as that of India. This study uses a culturally sensitive lens to qualitatively explo…
Mental health professionals’ experiences of navigating the Covid-19 pandemic
Authenticity
This article attempts to understand the concept of psychological authenticity, identifies gaps in the literature, and emphasizes its significance in the Indian context. Studies on authenticity in global and Indian contexts were reviewed for this purpose and the multifacetedness of the concept was specifically highlighted. A comparison of Indian and Western accounts of authenticity shows that Indian researchers are more prescriptive while defining…
Religious meaning-making and prosocial action among disaster response volunteers
This paper explores how religious beliefs influence meaning-making and prosocial action among community responders. Fourteen non-professional rescue and relief volunteers were interviewed post the 2018-19 floods in Kerala, India. The study adopts Braun and Clarke's Thematic Analysis with a critical realist approach. Several participants viewed the disaster as an act of God but simultaneously engaged in scientific sense-making; religious meaning-m…
From symptomology to resilience
Over the years, many researchers have studied outcomes of mental illness through deficit-based approaches such as vulnerability, suffering, and symptoms among individuals diagnosed with mental illness. Such an approach, though useful in the clinical area has failed to adequately explore positive adaptation among such individuals. The present study is a strength-based approach that aims to address this gap in literature by investigating how indivi…
Living well with mental illness
In India, mental illness is generally perceived as a lifetime adversity with high vulnerability to problems such as social marginalization, health hazards, and economic deprivation. But anecdotal evidence has shown that many individuals struggling with mental illness have led outstanding lives of courage, dignity and have contributed to society in different ways. Yet scientific research has not focused adequately on such cases and instead has lar…
Resilience Through Meaning-Making
Family as a source of risk and resilience among adults with a history of childhood adversity
An exploration of gratitude themes and suggestions for future interventions
For many years, the concept of gratitude was not considered worthy of investigation by psychologists since research goals were strongly dominated by the deficit-based approach and gratitude concepts were believed to be derived from common sense, and thus not warranting scientific query. This study, in attempting to understand gratitude themes, explores various events that elicit gratitude among engineering students in India. Thirty-two final year…
Positive Psychology Progress in India
A qualitative exploration of positive psychology concepts in the filmWadjdaand implications for future research
Positive psychology has often used both fictional and nonfictional examples to describe positive traits and outcomes. However, a film’s contribution to understanding of experiences has been rather underresearched in positive psychology literature. Although researchers in areas including journalism and film studies have conducted such investigations over the years, positive psychologists are yet to pursue this actively. This article is an attempt …
Family as a source of risk and resilience among adults with a history of childhood adversity
An exploration of gratitude themes and suggestions for future interventions
For many years, the concept of gratitude was not considered worthy of investigation by psychologists since research goals were strongly dominated by the deficit-based approach and gratitude concepts were believed to be derived from common sense, and thus not warranting scientific query. This study, in attempting to understand gratitude themes, explores various events that elicit gratitude among engineering students in India. Thirty-two final year…
Positive Psychology Progress in India
A qualitative exploration of positive psychology concepts in the filmWadjdaand implications for future research
Positive psychology has often used both fictional and nonfictional examples to describe positive traits and outcomes. However, a film’s contribution to understanding of experiences has been rather underresearched in positive psychology literature. Although researchers in areas including journalism and film studies have conducted such investigations over the years, positive psychologists are yet to pursue this actively. This article is an attempt …
An exploration of gratitude themes and suggestions for future interventions
For many years, the concept of gratitude was not considered worthy of investigation by psychologists since research goals were strongly dominated by the deficit-based approach and gratitude concepts were believed to be derived from common sense, and thus not warranting scientific query. This study, in attempting to understand gratitude themes, explores various events that elicit gratitude among engineering students in India. Thirty-two final year…
Living well with mental illness
In India, mental illness is generally perceived as a lifetime adversity with high vulnerability to problems such as social marginalization, health hazards, and economic deprivation. But anecdotal evidence has shown that many individuals struggling with mental illness have led outstanding lives of courage, dignity and have contributed to society in different ways. Yet scientific research has not focused adequately on such cases and instead has lar…
Resilience Through Meaning-Making
Family as a source of risk and resilience among adults with a history of childhood adversity
Religious meaning-making and prosocial action among disaster response volunteers
This paper explores how religious beliefs influence meaning-making and prosocial action among community responders. Fourteen non-professional rescue and relief volunteers were interviewed post the 2018-19 floods in Kerala, India. The study adopts Braun and Clarke's Thematic Analysis with a critical realist approach. Several participants viewed the disaster as an act of God but simultaneously engaged in scientific sense-making; religious meaning-m…
From symptomology to resilience
Over the years, many researchers have studied outcomes of mental illness through deficit-based approaches such as vulnerability, suffering, and symptoms among individuals diagnosed with mental illness. Such an approach, though useful in the clinical area has failed to adequately explore positive adaptation among such individuals. The present study is a strength-based approach that aims to address this gap in literature by investigating how indivi…
Mental health professionals’ experiences of navigating the Covid-19 pandemic
Authenticity
This article attempts to understand the concept of psychological authenticity, identifies gaps in the literature, and emphasizes its significance in the Indian context. Studies on authenticity in global and Indian contexts were reviewed for this purpose and the multifacetedness of the concept was specifically highlighted. A comparison of Indian and Western accounts of authenticity shows that Indian researchers are more prescriptive while defining…
Self-silencing in the Indian socio-cultural context
Self-silencing is the tendency of individuals to behave in ways involving inhibition of self-expression and sacrificing one’s own needs to avoid conflict and gain acceptance from others in close relationships. Currently, there is limited research on the contextual and socio-cultural factors that influence self-silencing, especially in collectivistic cultures such as that of India. This study uses a culturally sensitive lens to qualitatively explo…
Navigating Faith-based Practices in Therapy
Addressing clients’ faith-based practices (FBPs) is indispensable in psychotherapy, especially in a religiously diverse country like India. This can be particularly challenging in contexts where psychotherapy is highly stigmatized and FBPs are culturally accepted. A review of the literature highlighted a gap in research on how psychotherapists negotiate FBPs in the Indian context. This pilot qualitative study aims to address this gap by exploring…
Latent Profiles and Correlates of Mental Health Stigma in India
BACKGROUND: Stigma toward mental health problems is now being understood as a context-dependent, multidimensional concept. Nonetheless, empirical research continues to study stigma as a monolithic aspect, obscuring meaningful within-group variations. Such inquiries often obscure the people-centered patterns of stigma within the population. Recognizing such patterns aids in better understanding how stigma differentially influences help-seeking and…
Professional identity formation among mental health professionals in India
A wide range of professionals with diverse training and disciplinary orientations are considered mental health professionals. This can result in an ambiguous professional identity, role confusion, and professional tensions. Recent studies explore the implications of role confusion and professional tensions on mental health service delivery. However, there is a dearth of research on how systemic factors, such as laws and policies, influence profes…
Emotional and Verbal Child Abuse in India
Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (5 works) · Psychological resilience (5 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (5 works) · Resilience and Mental Health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Thematic analysis (5 works)