Select Peer Review Publications

Characteristics of Gender-Based Violence and Its Impact on Mental Health

Kovacevic, M., Patel, A. R. , & Newman, E. (2023). Mixed-Method Investigations Uncovering Tension, PTSD Symptoms, and Trauma-Related Difficulties Among Indian Women from Slums Reporting Gender-Based Violence. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 47(1), 195–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-021-09759-w

Fields, L., Young, D. A., Patel, A. R., Munroe, C., Shumway, M., Bell, S., & Richer, L. A. (2022). Drug-facilitated sexual assault, impaired trauma memory, and implications for mental health treatment. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2057165. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2022.2057165

Potluri, S., & Patel, A. R. (2021). Using a Continuous Traumatic Stress Framework to Examine Ongoing Adversity Among Indian Women from Slums: A Mixed‐Methods Exploration. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 34(5), 917–928. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22699

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Trauma x Suicide: Risk Factors and Explanatory Models

Patel, A. R., Dixon, K. E., Rojas, S., Gopalakrishnan, L., & Carmio, N. (2025). Explaining Suicide Among Indian Women: Applying the Cultural Theory of Suicide to Indian Survivors of Gender-Based Violence Reporting Suicidal Ideation. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 40(3–4), 658–680. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241254145

Patel, A. R., Dixon, K. E., & Nadkarni, A. (2024). Unpacking the ‘black box’ of suicide: A latent class analysis predicting profiles of suicidal ideation in a longitudinal cohort of adolescent girls from India. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(5), e0003130. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003130

Patel, A. R., Prabhu, S., Sciarrino, N. A., Presseau, C., Smith, N. B., & Rozek, D. C. (2021). Gender-Based Violence and Suicidal Ideation Among Indian Women From Slums: An Examination of Direct and Indirect Effects of Depression, Anxiety, and PTSD Symptoms. Psychological Trauma, 13(6), 694–702. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000998

Culturally Adapted Intervention Research

Nadkarni, A., Gupta, D., Mirchandani, K., Patel, A. R., Hussain, S., Pacheco, M. G., Bora, S., Jhanjee, A., Sharma, S., Kalha, J., Joag, K., & Bhatia, U. (2026). Feasibility of a Low-Intensity Task-Shared Intervention for Common Mental Disorders in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in India: A Mixed Methods Study. Violence Against Women, 32(8), 2293–2321. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251351898

Patel, A. R., Weobong, B., Patel, V., & Singla, D. R. (2020). Does intimate partner violence influence treatment effects on depression? Findings from a randomized controlled trial for a culturally-adapted behavioral activation treatment in Goa, India. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 130, Article 103643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2020.103643

Pfefferbaum, B., Nitiéma, P., Newman, E., & Patel, A. R. (2019). The Benefit of Interventions to Reduce Posttraumatic Stress in Youth Exposed to Mass Trauma: A Review and Meta-Analysis. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 34(5), 540–551. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X19004771

Hinton, D. E., & Patel, A. R. (2017). Cultural Adaptations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 40(4), 701–714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2017.08.006

Schleider, J. L., Patel, A. R., Krumholz, L., Chorpita, B. F., & Weisz, J. R. (2015). Relation Between Parent Symptomatology and Youth Problems: Multiple Mediation Through Family Income and Parent–Youth Stress. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 46(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-014-0446-6

Culturally Adapted Assessment Research

Patel, A. R., & Hall, B. J. (2021). Beyond the DSM-5 Diagnoses: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Assessing Trauma Reactions. Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing), 19(2), 197–203. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20200049

Sauceda, J. A., Patel, A. R., Santiago-Rodriguez, E. I., Garcia, D., & Lechuga, J. (2021). Testing for Differences in the Reporting of Somatic Symptoms of Depression in Racial/Ethnic Minorities. Health Education & Behavior, 48(3), 260–264. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981211011925

Hall, B. J., Patel, A. R., Lao, L., Liem, A., Mayawati, E. H., & Tjipto, S. (2021). Structural validation of The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) among Filipina and Indonesian female migrant domestic workers in Macao: STRUCTURAL VALIDATION OF PHQ-9. Psychiatry research, 295, 113575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113575

Leveraging Technology to Build Capacity in Non-Specialist Frontline Providers

Patel, A. R., & Lara, E. I. (2025). Peers as humans in the loop in digital mental health: Technology. Nature Medicine, 31(7), 2117–2118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03755-y

Naslund, J. A., Carmio, N., Taha, S., Amara, M., Wood, S., Patel, A. R., Romero, S., Floyd, K., Meredith, B., Rodriguez, B., Grajeda, K., Brune, R., Keller, A., Patel, V., & Sanchez, K. (2025). Development of a digital program for training non-specialist providers to deliver a psychosocial intervention for depression: a formative study to support scaling up task-shared depression care in the United States. Global Mental Health, 12, Article e23. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2025.5

Patel, V., Naslund, J. A., Wood, S., Patel, A. R., Chauvin, J. J., Agrawal, R., Bhan, A., Joshi, U., Amara, M., Kohrt, B. A., Singla, D. R., & G. Fairburn, C. (2022). EMPOWER: Toward the Global Dissemination of Psychosocial Interventions. Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing), 20(3), 301–306. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20220042

Additional 2026 Publications

Papola, D., Patania, F., Pedersen, G. A., Patel, A. R., Cristofalo, D., Purgato, M., Patel, V., & Barbui, C. (2026). Treatment-specific elements of psychosocial interventions delivered by non-specialist providers for the treatment of common mental disorders: A three-tiered taxonomy of active elements. Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 36(3), 100590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbct.2026.100590

Patel, A. R., Ramirez, G., Fernandes, L., Bariya-Sousa, A., McGuinness, E., Taha, S., Biswal, B., Awasthi, A., Wilson, D., Dixon, K. E., Papola, D., Zettelmeyer, A., Patel, V. H., & Nadkarni, A. (2026). Non-specialist delivered psychosocial care after war and interpersonal violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 13(7), 590–603. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(26)00123-9

de Oliveira, C. V. R., Patel, A. R., Bordignon, S. S., & Grigsby, T. J. (2026). Breaking the cycle: How maternal adversity shapes coercive parenting and physical harsh discipline among adolescent mothers in southern Brazil. Child Abuse & Neglect, 177, 108081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2026.108081

O’Neill, K., Patel, A. R., Gray, A., Bond, L., Bird, C., Aguerrebere, M., Vargas Vilugron, M., Hernandez, D., Warren, A. M., Patel, V., Sanchez, K., & Naslund, J. (2026). Leveraging the Single-Session Intervention approach to address psychological distress following a traumatic event: Opportunities to advance early intervention for trauma. PLOS Mental Health, 3(6), e0000618. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000618

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