Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Global Mental Health

Global mental health is the area of study, research, and practice that prioritizes improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health care for all people worldwide, with particular attention to low-resource settings and the treatment gap between need and available services. It addresses the cross-cultural…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 98× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2474-9273 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Global mental health is the area of study, research, and practice that prioritizes improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health care for all people worldwide, with particular attention to low-resource settings and the treatment gap between need and available services. It addresses the cross-cultural distribution of mental disorders, their social and structural determinants, and the scaling of prevention, promotion, and treatment through task-sharing, community-based delivery, and integration into general health systems. The field emphasizes context, culture, stigma, and the mental health workforce, including the well-being of frontline providers who experience compassion fatigue and burnout. Research relevant to this topic includes mental health promotion through global opinion data, systems-based frameworks for sustainable mental well-being, support for partners of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, the psychological burden and coping strategies of mental health service providers in psychiatric hospitals, community- and family-level correlates of mental health, family caregivers' knowledge of mental illness and its treatment, the mental dynamics of quarantine and social isolation, and self-monitoring in adaptive behavior change. Methods span surveys, qualitative studies, pilot interventions, and theoretical and review work across diverse national settings. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to global and cross-cultural mental health and its delivery.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 98 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Global Mental Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Behavior Therapy And Mental Health (ISSN 2474-9273).

Journal editorial board
Dr. Rabiul Ahasan · Saudi Arabia Shahid Ullah · Australia Roberto Maniglio · Italy

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