Publications

Karadzhov, D. (2025). Advancing competency development in global mental health: A call for contextualised, collaborative and future-oriented approaches. Mental Health Open, 1(1), 1-20. doi.org/10.64257/vnybxf92

Kolinska, U., Piers, R., & Karadzhov, D. (2025). “You feel hopeless when you can’t access healthcare”: International students’ experiences of mental health help-seeking through primary healthcare services in Scotland. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2025.2572518

Karadzhov, D., Lee, J., Hatton, G., White, R.G., Sharp, L., Jalloh, A., & Langan Martin, J. (2024). Identifying core global mental health professional competencies: A multi-sectoral perspective. Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 11, e24. doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2024.26

Davidson, J., Karadzhov, D., & Wilson, G. (2024). Short take: Designing a multinational smartphone app survey during COVID-19: Rewards, risks and recommendations. Field Methods. doi.org/10.1177/1525822X231218192

Karadzhov, D., Sharp, L., Hatton, G., Stubbs, F., & Langan Martin, J. (2024). More than just an add-on: Enhancing discipline-specific employability skills and awareness via the virtual learning environment. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 12(1). doi.org/10.56433/jpaap.v12i1.568

Karadzhov, D., Wilson, G., Shields, S., Lux, E., & Davidson, J. (2023). Effective child well-being practices, barriers and priority actions: Survey findings from service providers and policymakers in 22 countries during COVID-19. Journal of Children’s Services. doi.org/10.1108/JCS-10-2022-0028

Karadzhov, D. (2023). ‘Trials and tribulations’: The ambivalent influence of temporary accommodation on mental health recovery in chronically homeless adults. Qualitative Health Research, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/10497323221147127 — cited in a policy report by Shelter Scotland, 2025

Karadzhov, D. (2022). ‘Recovery is fearful to me…’: Conceptualizations, concerns and hopes about personal recovery in adults who are chronically homeless. Social Work in Mental Health. doi.org/10.1080/15332985.2022.2155096

Karadzhov, D., Davidson, J., & Wilson, G. (2022). ‘You cannot pour from an empty cup!’: Child wellbeing service providers’ and policymakers’ professional supervision, coping and wellbeing during COVID-19. Journal of Public Mental Health. doi.org/10.1108/JPMH-08-2021-0095

Karadzhov, D. (2021). Personal recovery and socio-structural disadvantage: A critical conceptual review. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. doi.org/10.1177/13634593211014250

Karadzhov, D. (2021). Expanding the methodological repertoire of participatory research into homelessness: The utility of the mobile phone diary. Qualitative Social Work, 20(3), 813-831. doi.org/10.1177/1473325020913904

Karadzhov, D., Yuan, Y., & Bond, L. (2020). Coping amidst an assemblage of disadvantage: A qualitative metasynthesis of first-person accounts of managing severe mental illness while homeless. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 27(1), 4-24. doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12524 — recognised by Wiley Publishing as a top cited article, Jan 2020–Dec 2021

Karadzhov, D., & White, R. (2020). Between the “whispers of the Devil” and “the revelation of the Word”: Christian clergy’s mental health literacy and pastoral support for BME congregants. Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health, 22(2), 147-172. doi.org/10.1080/19349637.2018.1537755