Category Archives: Professional

Immigrant Mothers’ Access to Early Childhood Preventive Services for Vulnerable Families

Entre-vues, le bulletin de l’équipe METISS, vous présente ce mois-ci les travaux de Ghayda Hassan, professeure en psychologie à l’UQAM, sur les critères d’admissibilités au programme SIPPE pour les mères immigrantes. Entre-vues_vol4_no8_octobre2013_en_ligne Vous trouverez tous les numéros d’ Entre-vues gratuitement sur le site Web du CSSS de la Montagne : www.culturementalhealth.com/?attachment_id=3797  

New Cultural Competence Guidelines for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Diversity and Culture Committee has developed practice parameters for cultural competence in child and adolescent psychiatric practice. The guidelines are based on an extensive literature review and expert consensus and include the following principles: Clinicians should identify and address barriers (economic, geographic, insurance, cultural beliefs, stigma, […]

Dr. Cécile Rousseau on how identity affects mental health

The CBC speaks with Dr. Cécile Rousseau about psychiatry’s move toward integrating culture in training and psychiatric practices. Listen here for a fascinating dialogue about how this important aspect of identity is impacting the Canadian mental health context.  Dr. Rousseau is a professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal where she directs the Transcultural Child […]