2015 Summer Program

21st Annual Summer Program

May 4 to July 9, 2015

You can download the 2015 Summer Program in PDF format.

2015_Summer_School_Program.pdf

 

General information

Registration information

Courses and workshops

 

Guest faculty

McGill faculty

 

2015 Registration for CME Credits & Professional Interest*

 


 

In 1995, the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University inaugurated an annual summer school in social and cultural psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. The program provides the conceptual background for research and clinical work in social and cultural psychiatry and will be of interest to:

  • postdoctoral trainees, researchers, and clinicians in psychiatry and other mental health disciplines
  • residents and graduate students in health and social sciences
  • physicians, psychologists, social workers and health professionals

The summer program forms part of the training activities of the Montreal WHO Collaborating Centre and is endorsed by the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology.

General information

Director: Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD

Administrator: Consuelo Errazuriz

Administrative Office:
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry,
Department of Psychiatry
McGill University
1033 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec   H3A 1A1

Tel.: 514-398-7302
Email: tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca

 

Registration Information

Courses may be taken for academic credit, Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit, or for professional interest. Workshops may be taken only for professional interest or CME.

Enrolment for courses and workshops is limited and early application is strongly advised. Please take note of the application deadlines in order to submit your application on time. All applicants must submit their CV to the Summer Program Coordinator at tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca to obtain permission to attend the course(s). Be sure to include your current contact information (mailing address, telephone, e-mail and McGill ID (if applicable)) and specify which course(s) you would like to attend.

 

Professional Interest and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit

Students and professionals applying to the summer program for professional interest can do so through the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. On successful completion of the course or workshop a certificate of attendance will be provided by the Division. This does not confer formal academic credit, for which a separate application is required (see below). Registrations for professional interest are accepted as long as room is available in a course or workshop. 

Medical practitioners may take courses and workshops for CME credit. Psychiatrists and general practitioners from North America, who are not seeking academic credits, may enroll for Continuing Medical Education (CME) study credits available from McGill University, Continuing Professional Development Office. The CPD grants continuing medical education credits for physicians and is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Education (CACME), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Those interested in obtaining CME credits must indicate this clearly on the registration form at the end of this brochure. Participants must sign in daily in order to receive CME credits and attestation certificates.

Registration for Professional Interest or CME credit can only be completed through the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry.

To register for Professional Interest and CME credit please contact: Summer Program Coordinator, tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca, Tel: 514-398-7302

 

Academic credit

The Cultural Psychiatry (PSYT711) and Psychiatric Epidemiology (PSYT713) courses may be taken for academic credit by students enrolled in a graduate program at McGill or another university. All applicants for academic credit must submit their CV to the summer program coordinator at tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca to obtain permission to attend the course(s). Be sure to include your current contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) and specify which course(s) you would like to attend. After this initial step, all further correspondence regarding the registration process for academic credit will be with the Department of Psychiatry Graduate Program Coordinator, by e-mail at: graduate.psychiatry [at] mcgill.ca, Tel: 514-398-4176 or Fax: 514-398-4370.

McGill Graduate Students

After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students may register on Minerva once the summer registration period for graduate students begins. Students are billed by McGill Student Accounts.

 

McGill Double Program Students and McGill Psychiatry Residents

After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to apply for “Special Student” status at www.mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/apply/ by February 15, 2015. A $100.00 (CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop fees). Official notification of acceptance as a “Special Student” is issued by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Double program students must use the paper Minerva forms to register for course(s), not the online Minerva registration process. McGill double program students and McGill psychiatry residents are billed by McGill Student Accounts: https://www.mcgill.ca/student-accounts/tuition-fees/general-information/exchange-senior-citizens-part-time-and-double-program

 

Non-McGill, Québec University Students

After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to request an interuniversity transfer of credits (www.crepuq.qc.ca). Fees are paid to your home university.

 

Students from University of Toronto and University of British Columbia

After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to submit a registration exchange form to their home university and to the graduate program coordinator at McGill. Fees are paid to your home university.

 

Students from other Universities in Canada (Inter University Credit Transfer)

Students must first receive permission to attend the course(s) as described earlier. If you are registered in a graduate program at a Canadian university (different from those mentioned above) and would like to take courses at McGill, you can apply as a visiting student. If you would like to take graduate-level courses, without the intention of obtaining a degree or diploma, you may apply as a special student. Applicants must apply by February 15, 2015 at

www.mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/apply/. A $100.00 (CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop fees). Official notification of acceptance as a “Visiting Student” or a “Special Student” is issued by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Students obtain a McGill student identity number when applying and use this to register for the course(s) on Minerva. Transfer of academic credits should be arranged with the applicant’s own university. Fees are paid to your home university.

 

International Students

After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to apply for “Special Student” status at www.mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/apply/ by January 15, 2015. A $100.00 (CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop fees). Official notification of acceptance as a “Special Student” is issued by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Students obtain a McGill student identity number when applying and use this to register for the course(s) on Minerva. Transfer of academic credits should be arranged with the applicant’s own university. Students are billed by McGill Student Accounts.

 

M.Sc. Program in Psychiatry

Students wishing to apply for the MSc program in Psychiatry (with concentration in Social and Transcultural Psychiatry) should direct inquiries to:

Graduate Program Coordinator
Ms. Danielle Bastien
Department of Psychiatry
McGill University
1033 Pine Avenue West, Room 105
Montreal, Quebec   H3A 1A1

Tel.: 514-398-4176
Email: graduate.psychiatry [at] mcgill.ca
Website: https://www.mcgill.ca/psychiatry/

The deadlines for applications and documents from International and Canadian students for the MSc and PhD programs are:

September 15 for entry in January.

January 15 for entry in May for international applicants for MSc and PhD and part time International applicants for summer courses.

February 15 for entry in May for Canadian degree program applicants and for part time in the Transcultural courses.

March 15 for Canadian and international applicants for entry in September.

For more information please visit: https://www.mcgill.ca/psychiatry/education/graduate-program

2015 Registration for CME Credits & Professional Interest*

Enrolment is limited. Early registration is advised to ensure a place. Registration must be accompanied by an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a $60.00 (CDN) non-refundable registration fee, by cheque payable to McGill University or credit card (authorization form included in brochure). The balance of fees must be paid by the first day of classes. The department reserves the right to cancel under-subscribed courses in the Summer Program. In such cases, fees will be returned to the applicant.

NOTE: If paying by credit card, please send the credit card authorization form by MAIL only.

Courses and workshop

 

First Session: May 5-27, 2014

Courses

PSYT 711 Cultural Psychiatry 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

L. Kirmayer & Faculty (3 academic credits)

This seminar surveys recent theory and research on the interaction of culture and psychiatric disorders. Topics to be covered include: history of cultural psychiatry; crossnational epidemiological and ethnographic research on major and minor psychiatric disorders; culture-bound syndromes and idioms of distress; culture, emotion and social interaction; somatization and dissociation; psychosis; ritual and symbolic healing and psychotherapy; mental health of indigenous peoples; mental health of immigrants and refugees; psychiatric theory and practice as cultural constructions; methods of crosscultural research; models of mental health care for multicultural societies; globalization and the future of cultural psychiatry.

Prerequisites: Courses in abnormal psychology and medical anthropology.
Text: Course readings will be available at the McGill Bookstore.
Begins: May 4-28, 2015 (4 weeks) M  09:00-12:30 & T•Th  13:30-18:00 
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West

PSYT 713 Psychiatric Epidemiology 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

G. Galbaud du Fort, N. Low & Faculty (3 academic credits)

This course offers an overview of the application of epidemiology in the field of psychiatry. Topics include: epidemiologic research methods in psychiatry; instruments and methods used in community studies; study of treatment-seeking, pathways to care, and use of services; interaction between psychological distress and physical health; methods used in specific populations and for specific disorders; introduction to clinical trials, needs for care and evaluation research.

Prerequisites: EPIB 601 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
Text: Course readings will be available at the McGill Bookstore.
Begins: May 4-29, 2015 (4 weeks) M•W•F  13:30-16:45
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West

Workshops

Working with Culture: Clinical Methods in Cultural Psychiatry
C. Rousseau, J. Guzder & Faculty

This workshop for mental health practitioners provides an overview of clinical models and methods in cultural psychiatry. Topics include: working with translators and culture brokers; attending to culture, ethnicity, racism and power in individual and family interventions with migrants and ethnocultural minorities; how cultural work transforms the therapist; ethical issues in intercultural work; strategies for working in different settings including schools, community organizations and refugee immigration boards. Invited lecturers will frame the basic issues of clinical intervention through the paradigms of cultural voices and languages of symptoms, art, and play. The clinical intersection of healer, culture, diagnosis, and therapy will be approached by a review of developmental theories, identity, and life cycle variations in migrant or minority experience.

Text: Course readings will be available at the McGill Bookstore.
Begins: May 5-28, 2015 (4 weeks) T•Th  09:00-12:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West

The McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)
D. Groleau

The McGill Illness Narrative Interview is a semi-structure protocol for eliciting information about illness experience that has been widely used in psychiatry, medicine and global health research. This workshop will present the theoretical basis of the MINI as a tool for qualitative health research. We will also cover the potential links with the concepts and values of Person-Centered Medicine. The workshop will discuss ways to adapt the MINI to study issues involving health behavior, bodily practices, illness, diseases, somatic and emotional symptoms. Participants will practice the MINI in one-to one interviews and learn ways to code and analyze qualitative data produced with the MINI.

Begins: May 4-13, 2015 (12 hours) M•W  01:30-5:00
Location: Room #1, Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West

Mixed-Methods in Culture and Mental Health Research
R. Whitley, A. Ryder & Faculty

This course will introduce participants to mixed-methods research in cultural and social psychiatry in a stepwise manner. The course will consist of three modules: (1) introduction to qualitative research; (2) introduction to quantitative research; (3) introduction to mixed-methods studies. Modules 1 and 2 will focus on methodologies, study design, execution, analysis and dissemination. In Module 3, students will learn how and when to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches into a mixed-method study. Ample time will be given for questions and discussion of individual projects.

Text: Course readings will be available at the McGill Bookstore.
Date: May 5-28, 2015, T·W·Th4 09:00-12:30
Location: TBD

Global Mental Health Research
D. Pedersen & Faculty

The seminar provides an introduction to key issues in global mental health (GMH) research with special reference to low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We will explore the tensions between a vertical public health approach, grounded in a biomedical frame and current evidence-based practices, and a horizontal community-based approach, that emphasizes local taxonomies and priorities, empowerment of local resources and endogenous solutions. The seminar will build a cultural critique of GMH and raise basic issues for discussion: (a) current priorities in GMH research have been largely framed by mental health professionals and their institutional partners based in Northern countries, reflecting the dominant interests of psychiatry and paying insufficient attention to Southern partners and local priorities; (b) the assumption in GMH that major psychiatric disorders are biologically determined and therefore universal; (c) the focus on existing evidence-based treatments, and the assumption that Western standard treatments can be readily applied across cultures with minimal adaptation; and (d) the emphasis on GMH interventions that may marginalize indigenous forms of healing and coping which may contribute to positive outcomes and recovery. The ultimate goal of this seminar is to outline a balanced critical perspective on GMH as a new field of enquiry and practice that acknowledges the importance of the social determinants of mental health and the interplay between the social and the cultural with the biological dimensions of mental health. The seminar will include lectures, panel presentations, case studies and plenary discussions of readings by faculty and students, supplemented by video documentaries and films.

Begins: May 8-29, 2015 (24 hours) F  09:00-12:30
Location: Room 101, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, 3647 Peel Street

Cultural Therapy: Dream-A-World Workshop

F. Hickling, G. Walcott, H. Robertson-Hickling, & J. Guzder

Dream-A-World Cultural Therapy is an innovative program to foster self-esteem, mental health and school performance among children. Originally developed for high-risk primary school children in inner city Kingston, Jamaica, the program has met with great success and is currently being scaled up in school districts across Jamaica. This workshop will familiarize participants with the philosophy and methods of Cultural Therapy by engaging in the process. Topics will include: a framework for collective behaviour change; using creative imagination to address attachment issues of childhood; creating a script and “culturing” the performance. The workshop will be videotaped for later presentation at the McGill ASI. All participants must sign a consent and intellectual property release form before the workshop. Participants should bring musical instruments of their choosing to the workshop.

[Limited to 20 participants with clinical/therapy backgrounds or equivalent]

Date: May 30-31, 2015 (15 hours) SSun  9:00-18:00
Location: Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry (Room G-23), 4333 Côte-Ste-Catherine Road, Montréal H3T 1E4

Indigenous Mental Health Research
L. Kirmayer, A. Bombay, J. Burack, E. Chachamovich, S. Dandeneau, S. Fraser, A. Laliberté, & C. Tait

This workshop will survey recent work on the social determinants of mental health and discuss issues in the design and implementation of culturally appropriate mixed-methods research with Indigenous communities and populations. The emphasis will be on conceptual issues and the development of research methodology to address both common and severe mental health problems and interventions. Specific topics will include: ethical issues in Indigenous health research; the role of Indigenous identity in mental health, resilience and well-being; suicide prevention and mental health promotion; visual methods in Aboriginal mental health research; evaluation of community-based mental health services; culturally adapted interventions; and Indigenous approaches to healing.

Text: Kirmayer, L. J., & Valaskakis, G. G. (2009). Healing traditions: The mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Date: June 15-18, 2015 (18 hours) T•W•Th  09:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West

Use of Film in Cultural Psychiatry: Healing Inter-group Divisions Through Film
F. Lu

In a world marked by racial, ethnic and religious divisions, we desperately need to see each other again in a human way. Film can help us take this step. This workshop will explore one way to use film to foster intercultural understanding and healing. We will bring a mindfulness perspective to the experience of viewing 4 feature films (To Kill a Mockingbird, Bagdad Café, Freedom Writers, Invictus). We will learn to observe conscious and unconscious biases that divide people from each other and question how these biases might be transformed. The films all tell stories in which people are moved to consider compassion and collaboration rather than confrontation when engaging differences. One film will be shown in its entirety each morning and each afternoon of the 2-day workshop with a brief introduction and centering exercise to begin the session, and individual and group processing after the film. Processing will include silent reflection, journaling, dyadic sharing, and group discussion focused first on the participants’ experience of the film and then on how the film could be used in teaching cultural psychiatry.

Date: May 30-31, 2015, SSun  9:00-17:00
Location: Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry (Amphitheatre), 4333 Côte-Ste-Catherine Road, Montréal H3T 1E4

Critical Neuroscience 
S. Choudhury, I. Gold, L. Kirmayer & Faculty

This course provides an overview of current controversies surrounding cognitive neuroscience and the implications of recent advances in research for psychiatry, education, bioethics and health policy. It will present the interdisciplinary project of critical neuroscience as a framework and set of tools with which to critically analyze interpretations of neuroscience data in the academic literature, their representation in popular domains and more broadly, the growth of neurocultures since the Decade of the Brain. This course will problematize and consider alternatives to neurobiological reductionism in psychiatry, neuroethics, cultural neuroscience and neuropolicy, attending to the models, metaphors and political contexts of mainstream brain research. It will also explore various avenues for engagement between neuroscience, social science and humanities. Sessions will be devoted to: critical methods; methodological problems in neuroscience; cultural neuroscience, social determinants of health; psychiatry, neuroeducation; mindfulness; and neuroethics.

Text: Choudhury, S. & Slaby, J. (Eds). (2012). Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience, New York: Wiley.
Date: July 6-9, 2015 (24 hours) MTWTh  9:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West

 


 

Guest faculty

Gilles Bibeau, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal

Amy Bombay, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Nursing and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University

Gregory Brass, PhD (Cand), Assistant Executive Director, Aanischaaukamikw, Cree Cultural Institute, Oujé-Bougoumou, Québec

Stéphane Dandeneau, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal

Sarah Fraser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychoeducation, Université de Montréal

Frederick Hickling, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of the West Indies

Arlene Laliberté, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychoeducation, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Stephanie Lloyd, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université Laval

Francis Lu, MD, Luke & Grace Kim Professor of Cultural Psychiatry Emeritus, University of California, Davis

Georg Northoff, MD, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics, ELJB-CIHR Michael Smith Chair in Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research

Eric Racine, PhD, Associate Professor & Director, Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Université de Montréal

Eugene Raikhel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

Hilary Robertson-Hickling, PhD, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies

Andrew Ryder, PhD, Associate Professor & Director, Culture and Personality Laboratory, Concordia University

Stephen Snow, PhD, Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Concordia University

Caroline Tait, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan

Geoffrey Walcott, MD, Head of the Kingston and St. Andrew Mental Health Services (KSAMHS), Jamaica

Gilah Yelin Hisrch, MFA, Professor of Art, California State University, Dominguez

 


 

McGill faculty

Please see our Faculty web page for more information.

Lawrence Annable, Dip. Stat., Professor, Division of Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry

Alain Brunet, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Jacob Burack, PhD, Professor, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology

Eduardo Chachamovich, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute 

Suparna Choudhury, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry

Ellen Corin, PhD, Associate Professor, Emerita, Department of Psychiatry

Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry; Senior Research Associate, Montreal Heart Institute; Invited Researcher, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Research Centre

Kia Faridi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Guillaume Galbaud du Fort, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Jewish General Hospital

Ian Gold, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Danielle Groleau, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital

Jaswant Guzder, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Head of Child Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital

G. Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Cultural Consultation Service, Jewish General Hospital

Suzanne King, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, James McGill Professor; Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital

Myrna Lashley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University

Eric Latimer, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Marc Laporta, MD, Director, Montreal WHO-PAHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Douglas University Institute and McGill University Health Center

Eric Lewis, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

Karl Looper, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Jewish General Hospital

Nancy Low, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Ann C. Macaulay, CM, MD, Professor, Department of Family Medicine; Director of Participatory Research at McGill, and previous Scientific Director Kahnawake Centre for Research and Training in Diabetes Prevention

Ashok Malla, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Toby Measham, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Lucie Nadeau, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Duncan Pedersen, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Associate Scientific Director, International Programs, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Michel Perreault, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre

Amir Raz, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Ellen Rosenberg, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Cécile Rousseau, MD, MSc, Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Research and Training Centre, CSSS de la Montagne

Monica Ruiz-Casares, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Norbert Schmitz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre

Brett Thombs, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital

Ashley Wazana, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital

Robert Whitley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Allan Young, PhD, Marjorie Bronfman Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, and Psychiatry

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