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Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Roberto Lewis-Fernández

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
63
Citations
14004
World Ranking
1190
National Ranking
553

Overview

Roberto Lewis-Fernández is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States, with a research focus spanning the field of psychology and its various subfields. Their scholarly work primarily addresses clinical psychology, social psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's research topics encompass mental health treatment and access, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cultural competency in health care, migration, health and trauma, COVID-19 and mental health, schizophrenia research and treatment, and counseling practices and supervision.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Psychiatric Services, World Psychiatry, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Roberto Lewis-Fernández are:

  • An organization- and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • Update on the Cultural Formulation Interview, 2020, FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
  • Justice for George Floyd and a reckoning for global mental health, 2020, Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • The Cultural Formulation Interview: Progress to date and future directions, 2020, Transcultural Psychiatry
  • The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5: Prospects for training, research, and clinical practice, 2020, Transcultural Psychiatry

Roberto Lewis-Fernández has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Melanie M. Wall, Lisa B. Dixon, Doron Amsalem, and Thomas E. Smith.

Best Publications

  • Three Approaches to Understanding and Classifying Mental Disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC):

    Lee Anna Clark;Bruce Cuthbert;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;William E. Narrow

  • A systematic review of PTSD prevalence and trajectories in DSM-5 defined trauma exposed populations: intentional and non-intentional traumatic events.

    Patcho N. Santiago;Robert J. Ursano;Christine L. Gray;Robert S. Pynoos

  • Culture and the anxiety disorders: recommendations for DSM‐V

    Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Devon E. Hinton;Amaro J. Laria;Elissa H. Patterson

  • The cross-cultural validity of posttraumatic stress disorder: implications for DSM-5.

    Devon E. Hinton;Roberto Lewis-Fernández

  • Dissociative disorders in DSM‐5

    David Spiegel;Richard J. Loewenstein;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Vedat Sar

  • Depression in US Hispanics: diagnostic and management considerations in family practice.

    Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Amar K. Das;César Alfonso;Myrna M. Weissman

  • Dissociative identity disorder: An empirical overview:

    Martin J Dorahy;Bethany L Brand;Vedat Şar;Christa Krüger

  • Culture and Psychiatric Evaluation: Operationalizing Cultural Formulation for DSM-5

    Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Neil K rishan Aggarwal;Sofie Bäärnhielm;Hans Rohlof

  • Idioms of Distress Among Trauma Survivors: Subtypes and Clinical Utility

    Devon E. Hinton;Roberto Lewis-Fernández

  • Lifestyle Interventions for Adults With Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Literature Review

    Leopoldo J. Cabassa;M.P.H. Jerel M. Ezell;Roberto Lewis-Fernández

  • Toward a Puerto Rican popular nosology: nervios and ataque de nervios.

    Peter J. Guarnaccia;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Melissa Rivera Marano

  • Psychotic symptoms in an urban general medicine practice.

    Mark Olfson;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Myrna M. Weissman;Adriana Feder

  • Dissociative disorders in DSM-5.

    David Spiegel;Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Ruth Lanius;Eric Vermetten

  • Cultural Psychiatry: Theoretical, Clinical, and Research Issues

    Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Arthur Kleinman

  • Culture: The missing link in health research.

    M. Kagawa Singer;W. Dressler;S. George;Claudia R. Baquet

  • Panic disorder: a review of DSM-IV panic disorder and proposals for DSM-V.

    Michelle G. Craske;Katharina Kircanski;Alyssa Epstein;Hans‐Ulrich Wittchen

  • The cultural formulation: a method for assessing cultural factors affecting the clinical encounter.

    Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Naelys Díaz

  • Conditional risk for PTSD among Latinos: a systematic review of racial/ethnic differences and sociocultural explanations.

    Carmela Alcántara;Melynda D. Casement;Roberto Lewis-Fernández

  • An organization- and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5.

    Michael B. First;Wolfgang Gaebel;Mario Maj;Dan J. Stein

  • Culture, personality, and psychopathology.

    Roberto Lewis-Fernández;Arthur Kleinman

  • Assessing Diversity among Latinos: Results from the NLAAS.

    Peter J. Guarnaccia;Igda Martínez Pincay;Margarita Alegría;Patrick E. Shrout

Frequent Co-Authors

Leopoldo J. Cabassa
Leopoldo J. Cabassa Washington University in St. Louis
Peter J. Guarnaccia
Peter J. Guarnaccia Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Yuval Neria
Yuval Neria Columbia University
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Laurence J. Kirmayer McGill University
Devon E. Hinton
Devon E. Hinton Harvard University
Bruce P. Dohrenwend
Bruce P. Dohrenwend Columbia University
Glorisa Canino
Glorisa Canino University of Puerto Rico
Lisa B. Dixon
Lisa B. Dixon Columbia University
Geoffrey M. Reed
Geoffrey M. Reed Columbia University
Vedat Sar
Vedat Sar Koç University

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