About the Journal

Key Themes

1. Traditional Healing and Mental Health
Research exploring the historical and contemporary role of traditional healing practices in global mental health. This includes a critical evaluation of techniques, contextualising traditional healing methods within the broader historical, economic, social, and political contexts of global mental health care.

2. Holistic Exploration of Wellbeing and Wellness
Research regarding how cultural values and social contexts shape understandings and experiences of wellbeing and wellness, exploring both collectivistic and individualistic perspectives. This also encompasses the development and refinement of systems for characterising and measuring positive mental health, going beyond the mere absence of disorder.

3. Culturally-Focused Mental Health Care
Studies examining the rich heritage of indigenous psychologies, including their philosophical and psychological underpinnings, and their applicability to contemporary mental health care. This includes work addressing community-based mental health care, understanding the distinct mental health needs and challenges

4. Positive Psychology and Collective Wellbeing and Wellness
Research examining the implementation of positive psychology principles and interventions in fostering mental health and wellbeing. This includes research into how cultural practices and traditions that prioritise collective values and social interconnectedness contribute to wellbeing and wellness.

Article Types
The journal welcomes submissions in the following categories:
● Empirical research: Any empirical findings about the journal’s key themes.
● Review articles: Critical synthesis and evaluation of existing literature on a specific topic relevant to the journal's key      themes.
● Systematic reviews or Meta-analyses: Systematic reviews and statistical synthesis of findings from
    multiple studies on the efficacy or impact of traditional healing interventions for mental health.
● Conceptual papers: Development of new conceptual models or frameworks that explore the interplay of
    culture and mental health
● Methodological Articles: Development and evaluation of research methods within a specific cultural
    context or with a multicultural lens.
● Case studies: In-depth analyses of specific situations that illustrate the interplay between traditional
    healing and mental health within a specific cultural context.
● Book Reviews: Critical appraisals of recently published books relevant to the journal's focus
● Commentaries: Short, insightful pieces that offer critical reflections, perspectives, or debates on current
    issues, controversies, or emerging trends within the field of traditional healing and critical mental health.
   Commentaries may address a specific research article, a policy issue, a clinical practice, or any other topic
   relevant to the journal's scope.

Open Access Policy
The International Journal of Traditional Healing and Critical Mental Health is an open-access journal. All published articles are freely available online to readers worldwide without any subscription charges or paywalls. There is an option to publish the article online-first.

Article Processing Charge
The journal does not charge any Article Processing Charges (APCs) to authors for the publication of their research.