Current Activities
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Transcultural Psychiatry
The Future of Cultural Psychiatry: DSM-5 and Beyond
October 25, 2013, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Amphitheatre
Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry
4333 Côte Ste Catherine Rd, Montreal, H3T 1E4
Program
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome: Mimi Israel, Michael Bond, Tewfik Said
9:15 – 9:45
50 years of Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill – Laurence J. Kirmayer
9:45 – 10:15
The McGill Illness Narrative Interview and Person-Centered Medicine – Danielle Groleau
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15
Critical neuroscience and cultural psychiatry – Suparna Choudhury
11:15 – 12:00
The place of culture in DSM-5 – Roberto Lewis-Fernandez
12:00 – 1:00
Panel: Rethinking the place of neuroscience, culture and context in psychiatry
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch, book launch, and poster session
2:00 – 2: 30
Cultural consultation – G. Eric Jarvis
2:30 – 3:00
Cultural axis implications for working with children and families – Jaswant Guzder
3:00 – 3:30
Advocacy for immigrant and refugee children: Legal, ethical and clinical challenges – Cécile Rousseau
3:30 – 4:30
Discussion: The future of cultural psychiatry
Guest Speaker
Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernández is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and Director of the New York State (NYS) Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence and the Hispanic Treatment Program at NYS Psychiatric Institute. He is also Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University. Dr. Lewis-Fernández’s research focuses on developing clinical interventions and novel service-delivery approaches to help overcome disparities in the care of underserved cultural groups. His work centers on improving treatment engagement and retention in mental health and physical health care by persons with anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and other serious mental illnesses. He also studies the way culture affects individuals’ experience of mental disorder and their help-seeking expectations, including how to explore this cultural variation during the psychiatric evaluation. Dr. Lewis-Fernández’s research has been funded by US federal and state agencies as well as private foundations. He is a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the chair of the Cultural Psychiatry Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, a member of the Anxiety Disorders Work Group and the chair of the Culture Subgroup of the Gender and Culture Study Group of the DSM-5 Task Force. He is also President-Elect of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, President of the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry, and a member of the Community Services Board and the Health and Mental Hygiene Advisory Council of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Book Launch
