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The Curious Case of Compassion - Tribune
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Terror, Trauma and Identity - Tribune
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Mental health: Pakistan’s Achilles heel during Covid-19 - Dawn
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Covid-19 & stress - Dawn
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Research Papers

Assessing physical activity in people with mental illness: 23-country reliability and validity of the simple activity questionnaire (SIMPAQ).
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Practice Parameter for Cultural Competence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Practice
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Debate: COVID-19 and school mental health in Pakistan
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A Review of Intersection of Social Determinants and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A Case for Social Psychiatry in Pakistan
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Comorbid Anxiety and Depression among Pregnant Pakistani Women: Higher Rates, Different Vulnerability Characteristics, and the Role of Perceived Stress
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Depression in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Balancing Adverse Effects of Untreated Illness with Treatment Risks
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“The one truly serious philosophical problem”: Ethical aspects of suicide
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Perceived stress may mediate the relationship between antenatal depressive symptoms and preterm birth
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Pakistan
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training: A Global Perspective
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Responding to moderate breaches in professionalism: An intervention for medical students
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Evaluation and Treatment of Acute Psychosis in Children With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
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Global Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Culturally Informed Focus
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Toolbox for Evaluating Residents as Teachers
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Lower Effectiveness of Divalproex Versus Valproic Acid
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The mhGAP; will it bridge the mental health treatment gap in Pakistan?
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Training Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists to Be Culturally Competent
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Child protection in Pakistan: Legislation & implementation
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The Texas Regional Psychiatry Minority Mentor Network
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Nash-wo-Numa (childhood growth & development) study protocol
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A Story of Hope: Leading Change Beyond Borders Through a Culturally Informed Focus
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Psychiatric Residents’ Attitudes Toward and Experiences With the Clinical-Skills Verification Process
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Initiating Narrative Medicine at a Medical College in Pakistan: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities
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Design and evaluation of a blended mental health curriculum for undergraduate medical education in Pakistan
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Children, Adolescents, and Islamophobia (book chapter)
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Autism – Toward Comprehensive Assessment and Management
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Designing a competency-based, blended curriculum using Kern's model
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Concise Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Third Edition
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From persecution to resilience: examining the mental health supports for LGBT youth
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Developmental Understanding of Death and Grief Among Children During COVID-19 Pandemic: Application of Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Model
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Reference: Chachar, A. S., Younus, S., & Ali, W. (2021). Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12(654584). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.654584.

Decision-making and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: neuroeconomic perspective
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Reference: Chachar, A. S., & Shaikh, M. Y. (2024). Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18, 1339825. DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1339825.

Debate: Bridging the gap – role of nonspecialists in child and adolescent mental health care
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Reference: Chachar, A. S., & Mian, A. I. (2024). Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

A Review of Intersection of Social Determinants and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - A Case for Social Psychiatry in Pakistan
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Reference: Chachar, A. S., & Mian, A. I. (2022). World Social Psychiatry, 4(2), 69. DOI: 10.4103/wsp.wsp_23_22.

The mhgap; will it bridge the mental health treatment gap in Pakistan?
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Reference: Najam, S., Chachar, A. S., & Mian, A. (2019). Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS), 14(2), 28–33.

Design and evaluation of a blended mental health curriculum for undergraduate medical education in Pakistan
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Reference: Chachar, A. S., Siddiqui, S. A., Saeed, H., Naseem, A., & Mian, A. I. (2020). SOTL in the South, 4(2), 100–117.

Reflections of an International Elective Trainee in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: What Can We All Learn From Each Other?
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Reference: Sanober, A. (2020, March 19). ACAMH.

Generalised tonic–clonic seizures on the subtherapeutic dose of olanzapine.
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Reference: Mansoor, M., Mesiya, M. H., & Chachar, A. S. (2019). BMJ Case Reports, 12(12), e230018.

School mental health best practices institute; capacity building of teachers in mental health literacy in Pakistan
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Reference: Khan, M., Chachar, A. S., Ali, W., & Mian, A. (2021). BJPsych Open, 7(S1), S144–S144.

Soldiers or health care professionals? Pakistan’s stressed medical personnel
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Reference: Sanober Chachar, A. (2020). LSE Research Online.

Death anxiety among psychiatry trainees during COVID-19
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Reference: MDedge Psychiatry (2020).

Designing a competency-based, blended curriculum using Kern's model for undergraduate psychiatry clerkship in Pakistan
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Reference: Chachar, A. S., Siddiqui, S. A., Saeed, H., Naseem, A., & Mian, A. I. (2020).

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