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Lost in Translation: Mental Health of Newcomers – New Canadian Media An interview with Dr. Jaswant Guzder on issues of access to mental health care for immigrants and refugees and the importance of interpreters. Includes discussion of suicide, psychosis, depression, and cultural consultation. Lost in Translation: Mental Health of Newcomers – New Canadian Media – […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Potential Contributions of Cultural-Clinical Psychology to a Revisioned Psychiatry Andrew G. Ryder, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, Concordia University Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, Georgetown University Cultural psychiatry has long aspired to be more than a subdiscipline of psychiatry, but rather a superordinate perspective that […]
Members of racial or ethnic minority groups benefit just as much from psychotherapy as do members of the white majority in Western countries, according to a report in Psychiatric Services in Advance. Researchers from Vrije Universiteit (VU), University Amsterdam, and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research looked at 56 randomized, controlled trials among adults […]
A Diverse Mental Health Workforce: Are We There Yet? Has the field made progress in creating a more diverse workforce—a major recommendation of the 2001 Surgeon General’s report on culture and race-ethnicity? This literature review found scant evidence of progress: “Racial-ethnic minority populations are vastly underrepresented among clinically trained mental health practitioners in the United States,” the […]