University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Transcult Psychiatry. 2020 Feb;57(1):3-18. doi: 10.1177/1363461519898035.
In recent years, efforts in Global Mental Health (GMH) have evolved alongside critical engagement with the field's claims and interventions. GMH has shifted its agenda and epistemological underpinnings, increased its evidence base, and joined other global policy platforms such as the Sustainable Development Goals. This editorial introduction to a thematic issue traces the recent shifts in the GMH agenda and discusses the changing construct of "mental health" as GMH moves away from a categorical biomedical model toward dimensional and transdiagnostic approaches and embraces digital technologies. We highlight persistent and emerging lines of inquiry and advocate for meaningful interdisciplinary engagement. Taken together, the articles in this special issue of provide a snapshot of current interdisciplinary work in GMH that considers the socio-cultural and historical dimensions of mental health important and proposes reflexive development of interventions and implementation strategies.
近年来,全球心理健康(GMH)领域的努力与该领域的主张和干预措施的批判性参与同步发展。GMH 已经改变了其议程和认识论基础,增加了其证据基础,并加入了其他全球政策平台,如可持续发展目标。本专题社论介绍了 GMH 议程的近期变化,并讨论了随着 GMH 从分类生物医学模式向维度和跨诊断方法转变以及采用数字技术,“心理健康”概念的变化。我们强调了持续存在和新兴的研究方向,并主张进行有意义的跨学科参与。总的来说,本期特刊中的文章提供了 GMH 目前跨学科工作的一个快照,这些工作考虑了心理健康的社会文化和历史维度的重要性,并提出了干预措施和实施策略的反思性发展。