Research
The range of research carried out in the Centre, both in international mental health and in transcultural psychiatry, may be conveyed by the titles of some of the recent Masters and PhD research projects:
- Attitudes to family change in Vietnamese elderly people.
- Health promotion in a multicultural population.
- Indigenous access to mainstream mental health services in Australia and New Zealand.
- Services information provision for Bosnian women survivors of sexual assault.
- Culturally appropriate support groups for elderly Italian cancer patients.
- Mainstream clinician knowledge of Indigenous mental health issues.
- An analysis of immigrant status in connection with potential risk factors for adolescent psychology.
- Transcultural content in nursing curricula.
- Somali conceptions and concerns of parenting in Australia.
- Development and evaluation of a cross-cultural assessment training package for mental health clinicians.
- Acculturation and the adjustment of international students.
- Psychological mechanisms in the report and expression of illness across cultures: a comparison of Greeks and Australians.
- The role of early traumatic history in the mental health of Polish elderly survivors of World War II.
- Value dissonance and its impact on parent–adolescent relationships in Malaysia.
- Parenting styles, exposure to adversity and internalising and externalising syndromes in African adolescents in Port Elizabeth.
- The effects of individual, family and community level mediators on adolescent adjustment as a result of war-related experiences in Croatia and Australia.
- Children exposed to domestic violence in Pakistan: experiences, attitudes, responses and short-term group intervention.
- The role of stigma in the expression of mental disorder in different cultures with particular reference to communities from the Horn of Africa.
- The relationship between collectivism/individualism and social management of illness in Hong Kong and Australian elderly: effects of method variance on hypothesis testing.
- Professional attitudes towards mental illness: a comparison of Chinese and non-Chinese Australian nurses.
- Graduate students have come from the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Africa, Bangladesh , and Australia. There are many opportunities for students to carry out supervised research in countries of the Asia–Pacific region.
Research Training
The CIMH offers comprehensive research training through the Master of Mental Health Science (Transcultural Psychiatry) and the PhD programs. CIMH academic staff have extensive experience in the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Recent Grants
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2004-2005 |
Dr Schwarz, R.G., Dr Fisher, J., A/Professor Minas, I.H. |
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2004-2005 |
Professor Manderson, L., Dr Kokanovic, R., A/Professor Klimidis, S. |
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2004-2005 |
Dr Joubert, L., Dr Hunter, P. & Ms Anderson, P., A/Professor Klimidis, S., Prof Dent, A., Prof Chiu, E., Dr Isaac, D. |
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2002–2004: |
A/Professor Minas, I.H. The University of Melbourne - Harvard Medical School International Mental Health Leadership Program Unrestricted Educational Grant, Eli Lilly, USA, $900,000. |
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2003: |
A/Professor Minas, I.H.& Lambert, T. NewMedia Education and Training in Mental Health Policy and Service Development Unrestricted Educational Grant, Eli Lilly Australia, $139,500. |
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2003: |
A/Professor Minas, I.H. & A/Professor Klimidis, S. |
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2002: |
A/Professor Minas, I.H. & A/Professor Klimidis, S. National Depression Scoping Project beyondblue: The National Depression Initiative, $40,000. |
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2002: |
A/Professor Minas, I.H. 1st International Mental Health Development Conference AusAID, $24,000. |