Greetings everyone. It's hard to believe that summer is half over and the 2014 Annual Meeting was two months ago. I...
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Call for Papers for Annual Meeting – Providence, Rhode Island, April 23-25, 2015
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 15, 2014 Culture and Global Mental Health The theme of the annual meeting is...
Call for Papers for Charles Hughes Fellowship and John Spiegel Fellowship SSPC Annual Meeting Providence, Rhode Island, April 23-25, 2015
Paper Submission Deadline: September 15, 2014 Culture and Global Mental Health The theme of the annual meeting is...
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2002 WenShing Tseng 2003 Dave Kinzie 2004 Armando Favazza 2006 Laurence Kirmayer 2008 Francis Lu 2010 Richard Mollica 2011 James L. Griffith 2012 Dinesh Bhugra and Kamaldeep Bhu
From the Desk of the Executive Director: You Told Us What You Want and We’re Responding
by Sylvanna Vargas and Elizabeth Kramer Thank you to all who participated in our anonymous survey and the luncheon discussion groups during the 2013 annual meeting. We were especially gratified to receive so many responses from long-term members. You gave us lots of...
SSPC’s First Time in Toronto: Annual Meeting Report
by Lisa Andermann The SSPC annual conference took place in Toronto, Canada for the first time, from May 3-5, 2013. Also for the first time, it was a collaborative effort with two cosponsors, the University of Toronto (which provided accreditation and CME credits) and...
Book Your Hotel Now for the 2014 Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting for 2014 is being held at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. A block of rooms is reserved for SSPC at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Old Town, just a few minutes from the Kroc Institute. The room...
Response to SRT Report A/HRC/22/53
The following is a letter drafted by the SSPC Board of Directors in response to the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Torture, currently in process of submission for publication. As members of the Board of Directors of the Society of the Study of Psychiatry...
Call for Papers for the 2014 Meeting
The call for papers for the 2014 SSPC meeting, which will be held in San Diego from May 15 to 17, 2014 is now open. The theme of the meeting is Trauma, Recovery and Culture. The deadline for abstract submission is September 16, 2013. This is an absolute and...
Cross-Cultural Training Recommendations for Developing Curriculum
1) increase the focus on cultural formulation and integration, 2) increase academic rigor by bringing in non-medical professionals, 3) increase depth, i.e., small group discussions of cases, 4) use multiple formats for learning sessions, 5) do not focus on...
Psychiatry in Multicultural Settings: Training and Practice, a symposium presented at the 2013 APA meeting
by Larry Merkel SSPC was invited by APA President Dilip Jeste to sponsor a symposium at the 2013 American Psychiatric Meeting in San Francisco. The first presentation was Renato Alarcón’s on “Culture and Cultural Components in Medical Students and...
NIMH Funding Opportunity
NIMH has announced the posting of a new funding opportunity: Mentored Career Development Award to Build Research Capacity in Global Mental Health (RFA-MH-14-120). The purpose of the NIMH Mentored Career Development Award to Build Research Capacity in Global Mental...
A Message from our Co-sponsor: Hong Fook Mental Health Association: A pioneer in advocating for mental health care for the underserved
Canada’s visible-minority population has grown rapidly over the past three decades and growth continues. Culturally and linguistically appropriate services are greatly needed to respond to the increasing demands of this growing population. Hong Fook Mental Health...