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Overview

Janis H. Jenkins is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, education, applied psychology, and general health professions.

Their recent publications cover various aspects of digital mental health, adolescent psychosocial development, and global mental health perspectives. Notable papers include:

  • "Advancing Health Equity in Digital Mental Health: Lessons From Medical Anthropology for Global Mental Health" (2021, JMIR Mental Health)
  • "Depression and anxiety among multiethnic middle school students: Age, gender, and sociocultural environment" (2022, International Journal of Social Psychiatry)
  • "Social media & subjectivity: Adolescent lived experiences with social media in a Southern California middle school" (2024, Social Science & Medicine)
  • "Conceptions of Mental Illness and Psychopharmaceuticals in Global Health" (2023, Revista de Antropología Social)
  • "Issue Information - TOC" (2023, Ethos)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jenkins include Edward W. Lowe, Giselle Sánchez, Ellen E. Kozelka, Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, and Eric A. Miller.

Their work has appeared most frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Ethos
  • JMIR Mental Health
  • International Journal of Social Psychiatry
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Revista de Antropología Social

Jenkins' research themes focus on areas such as digital mental health interventions, telemedicine and telehealth implementation, mobile health and mHealth applications, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, early childhood education and development, and child development in relation to digital technology.

  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology

Best Publications

  • A brief method for assessing expressed emotion in relatives of psychiatric patients.

    Ana B. Magaña;Michael J. Goldstein;Marvin Karno;David J. Miklowitz

  • Measuring Trauma and Health Status in Refugees: A Critical Review

    Michael Hollifield;Teddy D. Warner;Nityamo Lian;Barry Krakow

  • The meaning of expressed emotion: theoretical issues raised by cross- cultural research

    Janis H. Jenkins;Marvin Karno

  • Ethnicity, expressed emotion, attributions, and course of schizophrenia: family warmth matters.

    Steven Regeser Lopez;Kathleen Nelson Hipke;Antonio J. Polo;Janis H. Jenkins

  • Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions

    Frank Larøi;Tanya Marie Luhrmann;Vaughan Bell;William A. Christian

  • Expressed emotion and schizophrenic outcome among Mexican-American families

    M. Karno;J. H. Jenkins;A. de La Selva;F. Santana

  • The state construction of affect: political ethos and mental health among Salvadoran refugees.

    Janis Hunter Jenkins

  • Ethnopsychiatric interpretations of schizophrenic illness: the problem of nervios within Mexican-American families.

    Janis H. Jenkins

  • Schizophrenia, culture, and subjectivity : the edge of experience

    Janis Hunter Jenkins;Robert John Barrett

  • Conceptions of schizophrenia as a problem of nerves: A cross-cultural comparison of Mexican-Americans and Anglo-Americans

    Janis H. Jenkins

  • Cross-cultural studies of depression.

    Janis H. Jenkins;Arthur Kleinman;Byron J. Good

  • The new paradigm of recovery from schizophrenia: cultural conundrums of improvement without cure.

    Janis H. Jenkins;Elizabeth Carpenter-Song

  • Textbook of cultural psychiatry

    Dinesh Bhugra;Kamaldeep Bhui

  • Pharmaceutical self : the global shaping of experience in an age of psychopharmacology

    Janis H. Jenkins

  • An Attributional Analysis of Expressed Emotion in Mexican-American Families With Schizophrenia

    Amy Weisman;Steven Regeser Lopez;Marvin Karno;Janis Jenkins

  • Anthropology, Expressed Emotion, and Schizophrenia

    Janis Hunter Jenkins

  • Family burden of schizophrenia and depressive illness. Specifying the effects of ethnicity, gender and social ecology.

    Janis H. Jenkins;John G. Schumacher

  • Research issues for improving treatment of U.S. Hispanics with persistent mental disorders.

    William Armando Vega;Marvin Karno;Margerita Alegria;Jennifer Alvidrez

  • Culture, emotion, and PTSD.

    Janis H. Jenkins

  • Family support predicts psychiatric medication usage among Mexican American individuals with schizophrenia

    Jorge I. Ramírez García;Christina L. Chang;Joshua S. Young;Steven R. López

  • Stigma Despite Recovery

    Janis H. Jenkins;Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song

  • Awareness of stigma among persons with schizophrenia: marking the contexts of lived experience.

    Janis Hunter Jenkins;Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song

  • The Experience of Schizophrenia: What's Gender Got To Do With It? A Critical Review of the Current Status of Research on Schizophrenia

    Elizabeth H Nasser;Natalie Walders;Janis H Jenkins

  • Measuring Trauma and Health Status in Refugees

    Michael Hollifield;Teddy D. Warner;Barry Krakow;Janis H. Jenkins

  • Cultural variability in the manifestation of expressed emotion.

    Steven R. López;Jorge I. Ramírez García;Jodie B. Ullman;Alex Kopelowicz

  • Attitudes regarding the collaborative practice model and treatment adherence among individuals with bipolar disorder.

    Martha X Sajatovic;Marilyn Davies;Mark S. Bauer;Linda McBride

  • Expressed Emotion in Cross-Cultural Context: Familial Responses to Schizophrenic Illness Among Mexican Americans

    J. H. Jenkins;M. Karno;A. de la Selva;F. Santana

  • Development of an inventory for measuring war-related events in refugees.

    Michael Hollifield;Valorie Eckert;Teddy D. Warner;Janis Jenkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven R. López
Steven R. López University of Southern California
Michael Hollifield
Michael Hollifield VA Long Beach Healthcare System
Teddy D. Warner
Teddy D. Warner University of New Mexico
Joseph Westermeyer
Joseph Westermeyer University of Minnesota
Milton E. Strauss
Milton E. Strauss University of New Mexico
David J. Miklowitz
David J. Miklowitz University of California, Los Angeles
Frank Larøi
Frank Larøi University of Oslo
Vaughan Bell
Vaughan Bell University College London
Michael J. Goldstein
Michael J. Goldstein University of California, Los Angeles
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego

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