Publications by authors named "Diab A Ali"

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  • - Asylum seekers in the U.S. must create clear and credible narratives to navigate complex legal processes for immigration relief, often influenced by their traumatic experiences and cultural backgrounds.
  • - The article discusses the importance of a supportive environment and the role of interpreters in helping asylum seekers share their stories, considering cultural factors and the common traumatic events they've endured, like torture or human trafficking.
  • - It also highlights challenges that forensic psychiatric evaluators face in narrative development, such as transference issues, malingering, and the emotional toll on themselves, aiming to offer insights for both therapeutic and legal effectiveness.
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Over 2 decades of research indicate the significance of racial or ethnic disparities in mental illness in the United States. However, minoritized racial or ethnic groups tend to report overall lower prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders than White adults, although this varies depending on gender and race or ethnicity. We conducted a rigorous and systematic narrative synthesis on the differences in the prevalence rates and symptoms that differ across racial or ethnic women in depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

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Countless communities worldwide are exposed directly and subsequently to the effects of massive-scale collective stressors, from natural disasters to human-caused. In contexts of collective adversity, health care providers who are also members of these communities share and interdependently affect the range of responses their patients have. We aim to conceptualize this spectrum, termed shared trauma, shared resilience, and shared growth.

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