Our 2013 meeting in Toronto may only be a memory but the good feelings about it are still strong. I've heard from many...
Letter from the President
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Recent July 2013 News
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...
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....
Past July 2013 News
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...
Quote – Annual Meeting 2013
“The SSPC (meeting) is a unique opportunity for residents to play an active role in learning how theory and policy directly affect clinical care...residents were also given the chance to make...
Resident Reflections on the SSPC 2013 Annual Meeting
The SSPC Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada was my first SSPC meeting. Right away, Dr. Heather Stuart dynamically spoke about stigma in health care settings, and by the conclusion of her presentation, I was left thinking about my personal role in the stigma...
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...