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When Attempts to Localize Global Mental Health Miss the Mark

Rebecca Troeger - July 23, 2019 4

Researchers find that efforts to integrate the Cambodian idiom baksbat (broken courage) into local mental health care may have served to pathologize adaptive responding.

In the News

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