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Overview

Lawrence H. Yang is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as Social Psychology, General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work frequently focuses on topics related to Mental Health Treatment and Access, Schizophrenia research and treatment, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, and broader Mental Health and Psychiatry themes.

Lawrence H. Yang has published multiple papers in various scientific venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Systematic Review of Cultural Aspects of Stigma and Mental Illness among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States: Implications for Interventions, 2021, American Journal of Community Psychology
  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Barriers and facilitators to implementation of evidence-based task-sharing mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review using implementation science frameworks, 2022, Implementation Science
  • Psychological impact of anti-Asian stigma due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for research, practice, and policy responses., 2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy
  • Neurodegenerative model of schizophrenia: Growing evidence to support a revisit, 2022, Schizophrenia Research

The venues where they frequently publish include:

  • Schizophrenia Research
  • PsycEXTRA Dataset
  • Psychiatric Services
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Lawrence H. Yang has collaborated often with several colleagues, including Ezra Susser, Ohemaa Poku, Evan L. Eschliman, Margaux M. Grivel, and Supriya Misra.

Best Publications

  • Measuring Mental Illness Stigma

    Bruce G. Link;Lawrence H. Yang;Jo C. Phelan;Pamela Y. Collins

  • Culture and stigma: adding moral experience to stigma theory.

    Lawrence Hsin Yang;Arthur Kleinman;Bruce G. Link;Jo C. Phelan

  • 'Face' and the embodiment of stigma in China: the cases of schizophrenia and AIDS.

    Lawrence Hsin Yang;Arthur Michael Kleinman

  • Stigma and expressed emotion: a study of people with schizophrenia and their family members in China.

    Michael R. Phillips;Veronica Pearson;Feifei Li;Minjie Xu

  • Stigma and substance use disorders: An international phenomenon

    Lawrence H. Yang;Liang Y. Wong;Margaux M. Grivel;Deborah S. Hasin

  • Prenatal Malnutrition and Adult Schizophrenia: Further Evidence From the 1959-1961 Chinese Famine

    Ming Qing Xu;Wen Sheng Sun;Ben Xiu Liu;Guo Yin Feng

  • Effects of Attributing Serious Mental Illnesses to Genetic Causes on Orientations to Treatment

    Jo C. Phelan;Lawrence H. Yang;Rosangely Cruz-Rojas

  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap

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  • Systematic Review of Cultural Aspects of Stigma and Mental Illness among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States: Implications for Interventions

    Supriya Misra;Valerie W. Jackson;Jeanette Chong;Karen Choe

  • Barriers and facilitators to implementation of evidence-based task-sharing mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review using implementation science frameworks

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  • “What matters most:” A cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma

    Lawrence H. Yang;Fang pei Chen;Kathleen Janel Sia;Jonathan Lam

  • Addressing stigma relating to mental illness in low- and middle-income countries.

    Franco Mascayano;Julio Eduardo Armijo;Lawrence Hsin Yang

  • Psychological impact of anti-Asian stigma due to the COVID-19 pandemic: A call for research, practice, and policy responses.

    Supriya Misra;Phuong Thao D. Le;Emily Goldmann;Lawrence H. Yang

  • Potential stigma associated with inclusion of the psychosis risk syndrome in the DSM-V: An empirical question

    Lawrence H. Yang;Ahtoy J. Wonpat-Borja;Mark G. Opler;Cheryl M. Corcoran

  • Stigma toward mental illness in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

    Franco Mascayano;Thamara Tapia;Sara Schilling;Rubén Alvarado

  • Culture, threat, and mental illness stigma: identifying culture-specific threat among Chinese-American groups.

    Lawrence H. Yang;Valerie Purdie-Vaughns;Hiroki Kotabe;Bruce G. Link

  • Recent advances in cross-cultural measurement in psychiatric epidemiology: utilizing ‘what matters most’ to identify culture-specific aspects of stigma

    Lawrence Hsin Yang;Graham Thornicroft;Ruben Alvarado;Eduardo Vega

  • Stigma and beliefs of efficacy towards traditional Chinese medicine and Western psychiatric treatment among Chinese-Americans.

    Lawrence H. Yang;Jo C. Phelan;Bruce G. Link

  • Out of the silos: identifying cross-cutting features of health-related stigma to advance measurement and intervention

    Wim H. van Brakel;Janine Cataldo;Sandeep Grover;Brandon A. Kohrt

  • Perceived discrimination and psychotic experiences across multiple ethnic groups in the United States

    Hans Oh;Lawrence H. Yang;Deidre M. Anglin;Jordan E. DeVylder

  • Public Stigma Associated With Psychosis Risk Syndrome in a College Population: Implications for Peer Intervention

    Lawrence H. Yang;Deidre M. Anglin;Ahtoy J. Wonpat-Borja;Mark G. Opler

  • Co-occurrence of psychotic experiences and common mental health conditions across four racially and ethnically diverse population samples.

    J. E. DeVylder;D. Burnette;L. H. Yang

  • Statistical validation of the criteria for symptom remission in schizophrenia: Preliminary findings

    Mark G A Opler;Lawrence H Yang;Sue Caleo;Philip Alberti

Frequent Co-Authors

Jo C. Phelan
Jo C. Phelan Columbia University
Jordan E. DeVylder
Jordan E. DeVylder Fordham University
Lisa B. Dixon
Lisa B. Dixon Columbia University
Leopoldo J. Cabassa
Leopoldo J. Cabassa Washington University in St. Louis
Michael D. Stein
Michael D. Stein Boston University
Bradley J. Anderson
Bradley J. Anderson Butler Hospital
Mao-Sheng Ran
Mao-Sheng Ran University of Hong Kong
Cecilia L. W. Chan
Cecilia L. W. Chan University of Hong Kong
Byron J. Good
Byron J. Good Harvard University
Melanie M. Wall
Melanie M. Wall Columbia University

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