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ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31

2010 Annual Conference

Rethinking Cultural Competence from International Perspectives

April 29-May 1, 2010

Montreal, Quebec

Click here to View the Program Announcement 

Click here to View the Call for Papers

Click here to View the Registration Form - (Click here for PDF format)

Click Here to View the Abstract Form- (Click here for PDF format)

To join us or pay your dues, please download the Membership Dues Form (click here for PDF format) and follow its instructions. 

A Message from the President:

Welcome to the new SSPC website.  We hope you will find it user-friendly and helpful as well as informative. The Society’s 2010 annual meeting will be held in Montreal from April 29 to May 1.  It will be co-hosted by Laurence Kirmayer and colleagues from McGill and will be jointly held with the McGill Advanced Study Institute.  Visit us often for more news on the meeting.The organization is growing.  Liz Kramer has taken on more programmatic responsibility, and we now have a secretary and  webmaster, Zima Khanna.  At the 2009 Board meeting we voted to establish committees. The committees are:

  • Membership
  • Program
  • Communications
  • Education and Training
  • Awards
  • Strategic Planning and Succession

Please sign up for a committee and become more active in the organization.  Everybody’s input is important!

As part of the expanded website, we are developing a resource clearing house.  A bibliography on Southeast Asian mental health for professionals, complete with abstracts where they exist, has been posted on the site and will be updated quarterly or semi-annually, depending on volume.  Patient education materials in both native languages and English will be added, as will hyperlinks to other websites.  If you have something to contribute please send it to Liz at ekramer931@gmail.com.  In addition, Francis Lu’s annotated bibliography on cross-cultural psychiatry will be updated soon, and then we will move on to other topics.

All of this growth and activity costs money.  Although to date we have been successful with grants, which we will continue to pursue, we need a far more solid infrastructure.  To that end, we are asking everyone who hasn’t paid his or her dues to ante up now. 

Regards,

Dr. Jim Boehnlein, President

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Fellowships and Awards:

The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) is a not-for-profit association devoted to furthering research, clinical care and education in cultural aspects of mental health and illness. The Society has a diverse international membership and encourages participation of professionals and students from psychiatry, psychology, nursing, and the social sciences who are at various stages of practice, teaching or training. The society focuses attention on the importance of cultural factors in psychiatric care, education, and research through its group and individual efforts. 

The Society meets annually to present the latest research in cultural psychiatry, and to coordinate society efforts in medical and psychiatric education. The Society sponsors the John Spiegel and Charles Hughes Fellowships, annual travel awards for students, residents, or fellows to attend the annual meeting. The Society also publishes a newsletter twice per year to keep its members informed of group and individual professional activities and initiatives.

Further information about joining the Society can be obtained by emailing Dr. Jim Boehnlein, President of the Society at boehnlei@ohsu.edu, or calling him at 503-494-6653.