International Journal of Social Psychiatry
Established in 1954, International Journal of Social Psychiatry provides a forum for the dissemination of findings related to social psychiatry. The journal is of interest to psychiatrists and other members of the multi-disciplinary team around the world concerned with the impact of social factors on individuals' well-being and mental health.
Social psychiatry as a branch of psychiatry deals with the social, environmental and cultural factors in the aetiology and outcomes of psychiatric disorders as affecting individuals as well as communities. In addition to research reports on original research, social psychiatry also provides a link with social anthropology, cultural psychiatry, sociology and other disciplines in the field of mental health and is equally influenced by them. International Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original empirical research, review articles, book reviews and letters to the editor. The journal welcomes brief communications that get fast track publication, and also aims to reflect the international nature of the readership by publishing state of the art reviews from different parts of the world reflecting the practice of psychiatric disciplines.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes:
- studies on the role of social factors in the origins, course and outcome of psychiatric disorders
- mental health needs of the international communities
- papers from anthropologists, sociologists and other disciplines allied to mental health
- critique of biological aspects of mental health and services
- articles on needs assessment and service development and evaluation
- research of international impact and of interest to international readership
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
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Established in 1954, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, a peer reviewed journal, provides a forum for the dissemination of findings related to social psychiatry. The journal is of interest to psychiatrists and other members of the multi-disciplinary team around the world concerned with the impact of social factors on individuals well being and mental health.
Social psychiatry as a branch of psychiatry deals with the social, environmental and cultural factors in the aetiology and outcomes of psychiatric disorders as affecting individuals as well as communities. In addition to research reports on original research, social psychiatry also provides a link with social anthropology, cultural psychiatry, sociology and other disciplines in the field of mental health and is equally influenced by them. International Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original empirical research, review articles, book reviews and letters to the editor. The journal welcomes brief communications that get fast track publication, and also aims to reflect the international nature of the readership by publishing state of the art reviews from different parts of the world reflecting the practice of psychiatric disciplines.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes:
- studies on the role of social factors in the origins, course and outcome of psychiatric disorders
- mental health needs of the international communities
- papers from anthropologists, sociologists and other disciplines allied to mental health
- critique of biological aspects of mental health and services
- articles on needs assessment and service development and evaluation
- research of international impact and of interest to international readership
| Antonio Ventriglio | University of Foggia, Italy |
| João Castaldelli-Maia | University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil |
| Julio Torales | Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay |
| Gaia Sampogna | University Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy |
| Dinesh Bhugra | King’s College, London, UK |
| Jed Boardman | UMDS, Guy's Hospital, London, UK |
| Egor Chumakov | Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg , Russia |
| Matteo di Vincenzo | University Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy |
| Sam Gnanapragasam | King's College Hospital, UK |
| Susham Gupta | East London NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
| Alexander J Smith | University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Linda Chiu Wa Lam | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Christopher Lemon | North Western Melbourne Health, Australia |
| Michael Liebrenz | University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Roger Man-Kin Ng | Beijing Capital Medical University, China |
| Albert Persaud | King’s College, London, UK |
| Raghu Raghavan | De Montfort University, UK |
| Dr Lammata Bala Raju | Leicester, UK |
| Shulamit Ramon | University of Hertfordshire, UK and Anglia Ruskin University, UK |
| Bianca della Rocca | University Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy |
| Renato Alarcon | Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University, Peru |
| Corrado Barbui | University of Verona, Verona, Italy |
| Kamaldeep Bhui | University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| Mauro G. Carta | University of Cagliari, Italy |
| David Castle | University of Western Australia, Australia |
| S K Chaturvedi | National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, India |
| Christina M van der Feltz-Cornelis | Tilburg University, Netherlands |
| Diego Asturia Fernandes | Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala |
| Andrea Fiorillo | University Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy |
| Wolfgang Gaebel | Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany |
| Gerard Hutchinson | University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Dilip Jeste | University of California at San Diego, USA |
| Peter Jones | University of Surrey, UK |
| Brendan Kelly | Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| Murad Khan | Aga Khan University, Pakistan |
| Laurence J Kirmayer | McGill University, Montréal, Canada |
| Valery Krasnov | Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, Russia |
| Inga-Britt Krause | Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
| Diego De Leo | Griffith University, Australia |
| Roberto Lewis-Fernandez | Columbia University, USA |
| Keith Lloyd | Swansea University, UK |
| Francis Lu | University of California at Davis, USA |
| Mario Maj | University Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy |
| Driss Moussaoui | Ibn Rushd University, Morocco |
| Tarek Okasha | Okasha Institute of Psychiatry, Egypt |
| Stefan Priebe | Queen Mary, University of London, and Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, UK |
| Solomon Rataemane | University of Limpopo, South Africa |
| Miguel Roca | University of Balearic Islands, Spain |
| R Thara | Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Chennai, India |
| Pichet Udomratn | Prince of Songkla University, Thailand |
| Umberto Volpe | Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy |
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