Tag Archives: culture

Formations de base en interculturel

Nos partenaires au CSSS de la Montage offrent le formations de base en interculturel pour tous les intervenants du CSSS de la Montagne ou de ses partenaires (groupes  communautaires et autres établissements du réseau de la santé et des services sociaux) travaillant en milieu pluriethnique. La formation est générale; elle ne vise pas à former […]

Jaswant Guzder on Child Cultural Consultations

http://vimeo.com/86726372 Jaswant Guzder, head of Child Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital, talks about Cultural Consultation sessions with children. What are the principles of child cultural competence, what are some typical agendas during child cultural consultations, and what are some themes of concern?http://vimeo.com/86726372 Veuillez noter que la vidéo est disponible uniquement en anglais. Dre Jaswant […]

Article: Potential Contributions of Cultural-Clinical Psychology to a Revisioned Psychiatry

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 […]

Dr. Jaswant Guzder: Culture and working with families

VIDEO “The whole trajectory of development is shaped by cultural expectations” Dr. Jaswant Guzder, head of Child Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital discusses the influence of culture in her work with families. In her practice, she often encounters children and parents negotiating between two cultures, a Western one which often emphasizes individualism and the […]

The Clinical Ethnographic Interview: opening up the diagnostic process

“Depression questionnaires were never set up for the world’s population. They were set up in the West,” says Denise St Arnault, professor in the University of Michigan School of Nursing. For decades researchers have shown the degree to which there is cultural variation in the experience of mental illness, and yet clinicians continue to mostly […]