About the Reducing Misdiagnosis Across Cultural Groups Project
This project is part of the Diagnosis and Engagement initiative, which seeks to understand how to effectively increase the engagement of racial and ethnic underserved populations into mental health care.
Publications
Spiegel D, Lewis-Fernández R, Lanius R, Vermetten E, Simeon D, Friedman M: Dissociative Disorders in DSM-5. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, in press.
Alcántara C, Casement M, Lewis-Fernández R: Conditional risk for PTSD among Latinos: A systematic review of racial/ethnic differences and sociocultural explanations. Clinical Psychology Review, in press.
Lewis-Fernández R, Raggio GA, Gorritz M, Duan N, Marcus S, Cabassa LJ, Humensky J, Becker AE, Alarcón RD, Oquendo MA, Hansen H, Like RC, Weiss M, Desai PN, Jacobsen F, Foulks E, Primm A, Lu F, Kopelowicz A, Hinton L, Hinton DE: GAP-REACH: A checklist to assess comprehensive reporting of race, ethnicity, and culture in psychiatric publications. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, in press.
Santiago PN, Ursano RJ, Gray CL, Pynoos RS, Spiegel D, Lewis-Fernández R, Friedman MJ, Fullerton CS: A systematic review of PTSD prevalence and trajectories in DSM-5 defined direct trauma exposed populations: Intentional and non-intentional traumatic events. PLoS One, in press.
Hinton DE and Lewis-Fernández R: The cross-cultural validity of posttraumatic stress disorder: Implications for DSM-5. Depression and Anxiety, 2011, 28:783-801. PMID: 21910185.
Brown RJ, Lewis-Fernández R: Culture and conversion disorder: Implications for DSM-5. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 2011, 74:187-206. PMID: 21916627.
Santiago PN, Ursano RJ, Gray CL, Pynoos RS, Spiegel D, Lewis-Fernández R, Friedman MJ, Fullerton CS: A systematic review of PTSD prevalence and trajectories in DSM-5 defined direct trauma exposed populations: Intentional and non-intentional traumatic events. PLoS One, 2013, 8:e59236. PMID: 23593134.
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