About this Research Topic
Within the general domain of how culture shapes mental and physical health/well-being, a very broad range of questions, contexts, problems, and approaches are encouraged. For example: clinical, community, or student samples; quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches; 'basic science' or 'clinical/applied' perspectives; newly collected data or novel approaches to archival data. Ideally, a successful paper will achieve two goals. First, it will speak to cultural psychologists, contributing to the study of a particular cultural context or contexts. Authors will be able to take advantage of the available space to provide an extended description of the cultural context(s) in which they work. Second, it will speak to clinical psychologists, contributing to the study of a particular issue in mental and physical health/well-being. Authors are particularly encouraged to address directly the ways in which their work promotes the integration of cultural and clinical psychology, highlighting how it goes beyond specific contexts or questions to speak to this broader research community. For example, authors might discuss how their theories, samples, methods, approaches to data, or interpretive frames might be applied beyond their specific project, to other cultural contexts and other clinical questions. The aim is not only to bring together a number of studies in this general area, but to capture some of the diversity that already exists among researchers in this field while developing a resource that will further promote innovation in cultural-clinical psychology.
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