Program
View the program and abstracts for the 40th Annual Meeting
Day 1: Friday, September 25, 2020
| Time | Session | Abstracts | Speaker/Facilitator |
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| 1:00pm – 2:20pm ET 10:00am – 11:20am PT | Hughes and Spiegel Fellowship Award Panel | ||
| “They are coming to hurt me,” Cries for Structurally Competent Psychiatric Care from Central American Migrants in the United States | View Abstract | Jonathan Gomez | |
| Cultural Formulation in a Case of Spiritual Possession: Religion, Dissociation, and Culture | View Abstract | Andrea Mendiola | |
| Traditional healers’ explanatory models of intellectual disability in Cape Town | View Abstract | Siyabulela Mkabile | |
| 2:20pm – 2:30pm ET 11:20am – 11:30am PT | Break | ||
| 2:30pm – 4pm ET 11:30am – 1pm PT | Workshop 1: Using the Cultural Formulation Interview | View Abstract | Andrea Mendiola G. Eric Jarvis Kenneth Fung Lisa Andermann Azaad Kassam |
| Workshop 2: GMH passion project consultation workshop: Examining the bi-directional impact of our work | View Abstract | Gwen Mitchell Yusra Ahmad Omar Reda |
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| Workshop 3: When Life Depends on a Piece of Paper: The Role of Mental Health Workers in Completing Government Paperwork for Refugees | View Abstract | Kyle Baird Mario Lintz Daniella Schlander Daniel Savin |
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| Workshop 4: “A Person Is A Person Through Other Persons” – How Culture & Identity Are Constructed Through Relationships & Belonging | View Abstract | Vincenzo Di Nicola Anjali Joseph |
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| 4:00pm – 4:30pm ET 1:00pm – 1:30p PT | Want to learn more about SSPC's committees and get involved? Committee leaders are available for drop-in informal chats Optional: Meet the committee chairs |
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| Program | Bonnie Kaiser | ||
| Education | Kenneth Fung | ||
| Trainee/Mentorship | TBA | ||
| Family Interest Group | Steve Wolin Vincenzo Di Nicola |
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| Senior Advisory Group Effort | Jim Boehnlein | ||
| Advocacy Committee | Seran Schug Pamela Montano |
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Day 2: Friday, October 9, 2020
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| 1:00pm – 2:20pm ET 10:00am – 11:20am PT | Plenary: Community Partnered Participatory Research: Overview and Example of Depression | View Abstract | Felica Jones Kenneth Wells |
| 2:20pm – 2:30pm ET 11:20am – 11:30am PT | Break | ||
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm ET 11:30am – 1:00pm PT | Workshop 5: We’re Right in the Middle of It: Navigating Complex Group Dynamics in Multicultural Education | View Abstract | Anique Forrester Gabriela Nagy Seamus Bhatt-Mackin |
| Workshop 6: Integration and Empowerment - Expressive Arts Therapy group works with newcomer adults (immigrants and refugees) in Toronto | View Abstract | Neslihan Memiguven | |
| Workshop 7: An Experiential Workshop on Cross-Cultural Collaboration | Seetha Davis Alisa Miller Kenneth Fung Ted Lo Lisa Andermann |
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| Workshop 8: Applications of Community Engagement Principles to Projects and Research (If you would like to briefly present (and receive feedback on) a proposed/emerging Community Partnered Participatory Research project as part of this session, email bonnienicolekaiser@gmail.com; others may attend even if not presenting.) | View Abstract | Felica Jones Kenneth Wells |
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| 4:00pm – 4:30pm ET 1:00pm – 1:30pm PT | Break | ||
| 4:30pm – 6:00pm ET 1:30pm – 3:00pm PT | Documentary Film and discussion: The Healer and the Psychiatrist - US Premiere (Mike Poltorak). In the South Pacific Island group of Tonga, a traditional healer and a Psychiatrist treat spiritual affliction and mental illness in challenging and inspirational ways Visit the Website | View Abstract | |
Day 3: Saturday, October 10, 2020
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All sessions on Day 3 are live discussion sessions based on prerecorded talks. Please go to Watch to view these materials. |
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| 1:00pm – 1:45pm ET 10:00am – 10:45am PT | Symposium 1: Weaving Collaborations and Negotiating Firewalls in Polarized Times | View Abstract |
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| Collective Case Formulation on Violent Radicalization | View Abstract | Yann Zoldan Janique Johnson-Lafleur |
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| What variables do we have in common? Transnational collaborations on violent radicalization | View Abstract | Rochelle Frounfelker Diana Miconi |
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| The Fireman in the Bedroom: Collaborations between Clinicians and Security Agencies in the Field of Violent Radicalization | View Abstract | Cecile Rousseau | |
| Symposium 2: Working Separate and Together: Lessons Learned in Global and Local Academic-Community Research Partnerships | View Abstract |
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| On Field Methods and Stigma: Conducting Research on Illness Categories that Do Not Exist Locally | View Abstract | Jonathan Yahalom | |
| Synergizing Health Disparities Efforts across Settings in the SER Hispano Project: Facilitators and Barriers of an Interdisciplinary Academic-Community Partnership | View Abstract | Gabriela Nagy | |
| Utilizing community-based research to test and refine interventions in global mental health: A pilot evaluation of an emotion-focused intervention for school-going youth in post-earthquake Nepal | View Abstract | Megan Ramaiya | |
| Paper session 1: Considering Culture in Care | |||
| Cross-cultural, trans-cultural, and global perspectives on mindfulness: Lessons and future directions from comparing Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Morita Psychotherapy from Japan | View Abstract | Hiroe Hu | |
| Incómodo: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Primary Care Nurses’ Experiences Managing Depression in Rural Guatemala | View Abstract | Shanna Stryker Rachel Kishton |
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| Situating Mental Disorders in Cultural Frames | View Abstract | George Eric Jarvis | |
| Paper session 2: Interdisciplinary Collaboration | |||
| Collaborative Care for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations in Primary Care: A Systematic Review | View Abstract | Jennifer Hu Tina Wu Swathi Damodaran |
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| The ‘Science of Morals’ of a Psychiatric Emergency Service | View Abstract | Sang Ik Song | |
| Urban Hospital Collaboration to Improve Cross-Cultural Care | View Abstract | Mark Nathanson Jennifer Traxler Dhruv Gupta Anthy Phillips |
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| 1:45pm – 2:00pm ET 10:45am – 11:00am PT | Break | ||
| 2:00pm – 2:45pm ET 11:00am – 11:45am PT | Symposium 3: The Development of an Educational Partnership and Ethiopian-Canadian Academic Collaboration: The Story of TAAPP and TAAAC | View Abstract | Moderator: Clare Pain |
| The Development of Psychiatric Education in Ethiopia: 15 years of TAAPP | View Abstract | Lisa Andermann | |
| Ethiopian Perspectives on an Educational Partnership: The Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Program (TAAPP) | View Abstract | Benyam Worku Dubale | |
| Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC): a relational partnership model for building educational capacity between a high- and low-income university: lessons learned | View Abstract | Clare Pain | |
| Symposium 4: Insights and Lessons Learned in International Mental Health Promotion | View Abstract |
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| Applying the RE-AIM Framework in International Mental Health Implementation Research | View Abstract | Kenneth P. Fung | |
| Facilitators and Barriers to Interdisciplinary and International Collaborations in Mental Health Promotion | View Abstract | Weijia Tan | |
| What Constitutes “Culture” in International Cross-Cultural Collaborations | View Abstract | Jenny JW Liu | |
| Paper session 3: Services for Refugees and Asylum Seekers | |||
| Prioritizing Refugees’ Voices: Reconceptualizing Refugee Ethics Protocols in Refugee Research | View Abstract | Neil Bilotta | |
| Understanding the Experience of Latin American Female Asylum Seekers in Quebec: An Intersectional and Narrative Approach | View Abstract | Laura Gallo Tapias | |
| “We are all under the same roof”: Coping and meaning making among older Bhutanese with a refugee life experience | View Abstract | Bhuwan Gautam Tej Mishra |
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| Mental health of conflict-affected internally displaced persons in Northern Sri Lanka: The COMGAP-S study | View Abstract | Shannon Doherty Giselle Dass |
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| Paper session 4: Inclusion and Access | |||
| Developing a Meaningful and Culturally Safe Collaborative Space for First-Line Workers in Youth Mental Health and Wellness in Nunavik: The Atautsikut Community of Practice (CoP) Experience | View Abstract | Janique Johnson-Lafleur | |
| Moving Indigenous Mental Wellness Knowledge to Action in a Manitoba First Nation Community | View Abstract | Grace Kyoon-Achan Diane Linklater |
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| The Use of Information Communication Technologies Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Descriptive Qualitative Study | View Abstract | Theoneste Ntalindwa | |
| Therapy with Remote Patients: Principle Concepts | View Abstract | James Griffith | |
| 2:45pm – 3:15pm ET 11:45am – 12:15pm PT | Business Meeting – Open to all (announcements, reports, awards) | ||
| 3:15pm – 4:00pm ET 12:15pm – 1:00pm PT | Poster Session | ||
| Refugee Mental Health Upon Arrival to Kentucky: Correlation of Refugee Health Screener 15 (RHS-15) score to Social and Ethnographic Variables | Barbara Ekeh | ||
| When Family Decisions Conflict with Standard of Care: Case Report of a Korean Immigrant with Schizophrenia and Medication-Resistant Catatonia | Crystal Han* | ||
| The First Episode Psychosis Experience of Filipino-Canadians in Montreal: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis | Jenna Pastorini | ||
| Participatory evaluation of a co-designed group psychosocial intervention to promote well-being in Guatemala | Katherine Pizarro* | ||
| The Weighty Teenage Years: Weight Assessment Accuracy as a Function of Gender, Sleep, and Depression in Minnesota High School Students | Molly Fennig* | ||
| Psychiatry After the Bell: An Ongoing Collaboration to Address to Mental Health Issues in After School Programs | Nayla Khoury | ||
| The Role of Primary Care in the Use of Specialty Mental Health Services | Nina Jhaveri* | ||
| Baksbat, Nelumbo nucifera and Robam Kbach Boran: Exploring perspectives and experiences of a Cambodian idiom of distress through the filmic image | Ingrid Olivia Norrmén-Smith* | ||
| Sustainability of a Multicultural Consultation Service within an Academic Medical Center | Macey Arnold* | ||
| Challenges and lessons learned in re-filming the WHO mhGAP training videos for Sri Lankan context - a qualitative study | Gergana Manolova* | ||
| *All posters will be available on the conference website. Presenters with an asterisk will also be available during the live poster session for Q&A. | |||