Program - Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture

Day 1, Thursday, April 21, 2022

Time	Session	Speaker/Facilitator	Abstract
12 – 1p ET 9 – 10a PT	John Spiegel Fellowship Presentation: Healing the Whole Family: An Educational Graphic Novel about Intergenerational Trauma in an Asian-American Family	Nealie Ngo Discussants: Grace Chiang, Eunice Yuen	Abstract
1 – 1:30p ET 10 – 10:30a PT	Break
1:30 – 3p ET 10:30a – 12p PT
	Symposium 1: Gender Identities in the Storm: Embodying Oppression or Idiom of Resistance?	Discussant: Cécile Rousseau	Abstract
	“We are not terrorists, we are ugly”: Ugliness as the core of the “true” masculine Incel identity	Catherine Montmagny Grenier
	“Gender Mainstreaming” and Violent Radicalization	Rochelle Frounfelker
	The Gender of Hate	Yann Zoldan
	Workshop 1: Addressing Microaggressions Directed at Health Care Providers: Strategies to Determine If, When, and How to Intervene	Gabriela Nagy, Briana Brownlow	Abstract
	Workshop 2: Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Beyond the Treatment Manual	Pamela Hays	Abstract
	Paper session 1: Directions in global mental health
	Embodiments of Marxism Ideology Education on Tibetan Teenagers’ Moral Development	Xue Han	Abstract
	Explanatory Models of Schizophrenia in the Tz’utujil Maya	Robert Kohn	Abstract
	Multiple – and often conflicting – roles of Community Mental Health Workers in rural Chiapas, Mexico	Eva Studer, Ana Ceci Ortega, Erika Valtierra	Abstract
	Determinants of Mental Illness and Care Seeking in Northern Haiti: An Assessment of Demographic, Social and Religio-Cultural Factors Among Patients at the First Mental Health Clinic in the Region	Michael Galvin	Abstract
3 – 3:30p ET 12a – 12:30p PT	Break
3:30 – 5p ET 12:30 – 2p PT
	Paper session 2: Social and structural determinants of health
	Trainee and Faculty Perspectives on Cultural Psychiatry, Global Mental Health, and Social Determinants of Health in Psychiatry Residency: A Pilot Study	Seeba Anam, Kathryn E. Gunter	Abstract
	The role of social norms on attitudes towards seeking mental health care for immigrants in Canada	Sarah Benkirane	Abstract
	Ethnic Identity, Stress, and Personal Recovery Outcomes Among Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions	Kiara Moore	Abstract
	Resilience in Sarajevo’s Post-War Generation: A Culturally-Consonant Model	Benjamin Trnka	Abstract
	Workshop 3: Listening to stories: a narrative medicine approach to developing cultural humility	Sally Huang, Francis Lu	Abstract
	Workshop 4: Narrative Exploration of Cultural Identities and Worldviews: Weaving A Cultural Mosaic or A Tangled Web?	Kenneth Fung, Ted Lo	Abstract
	Paper session 3: Biology, the body, and mental health
	Body and identity in victims of child sexual abuse	Patricia Espinosa Hernandez	Abstract
	The Language of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Hashtags on Tumblr: A Mixed Ethnography and Network Analysis Approach	Federica Guccini, Steve H. Lee	Abstract
	Social relationship quality, depression and inflammation: A cross-cultural longitudinal study in the United States and Tokyo, Japan	Alan Teo, Benjamin Kaveladze	Abstract
	Similarities and Differences in Interoceptive Bodily Awareness Between US-American and Japanese Cultures	Hiroe Hu	Abstract
5 – 5:30p ET 2 – 2:30p PT
	Optional: Interested in getting involved at SSPC? Meet the committee chairs.
	Program Committee	Anna Fiskin
	Education Committee	Kenneth Fung
	Finance Committee	Alan Teo
	Advocacy Committee	James Griffith
	Trainees/Mentorship Committee	Jenny Liu
	Membership Committee	Eric Jarvis
	Family Interest Group	Steven Wolin
	Senior Advisory Group Effort (SAGE)	Jim Boehnlein

Day 2, Friday, April 22, 2022

Time	Session	Speaker/Facilitator	Abstract
12 – 1:15p ET 9 – 10:15a PT	Plenary Presentation: Journaling the Pandemic: What 25,000 Journal Entries Can Tell Us about the Mental Health Effects of COVID-19	Sarah S. Willen Katherine A. Mason	Abstract
1:15 – 1:30p ET 10:15 – 10:30a PT	Break
1:30 – 3p ET 10:30a – 12p PT
	Paper session 4: Reflexivity in practice: Racism and trauma in clinical care and training
	“What you’re talking about there and then, It’s happening right here and now”: Managing Group Dynamics in the Multicultural Clinical Education Classroom	Seamus Bhatt-Mackin, Annique Forester, Gabriela Nagy, Meenakshi Denduluri	Abstract
	A Qualitative Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in Under Resourced, HIV-Seropositive, Black and Latinx Individuals with Cardiovascular Risks	Tamra Loeb	Abstract
	Social Capital of Trauma in Medical School Admissions	Jenna Pastorini	Abstract
	Clinician Responses to Language Barriers in an Emergency Psychiatry Department	George Eric Jarvis	Abstract
	Workshop 5: Microaggression: Health Consequences and Community Strategies in South Asian Americans	Ramaswamy Viswanathan, Karuna Poddar, Manan Shah, Dhruv Gupta	Abstract
	Workshop 6: Moral Distress and Moral Injury of Healthcare Providers: Cultural Impacts of “Medicine is a Business”	James Griffith, Emily Schutzenhofer	Abstract
	Paper session 5: Exploring forms of care for refugees and asylum seekers
	Ethical and Policy Considerations of Refugee Travel Loans – Encouraging Independence or Fostering Financial Coercion? A review	Ahmad Adi	Abstract
	Thinking outside the (clinical) box: Eritrean refugee’s informal forms of support and healing	Maya Fennig, Myriam Denov	Abstract
	Navigating norms of parenting; psychosocial support in refugee families	Els Rommes	Abstract
	Fostering Agency, Belonging and Wellbeing for Asylum-Seeking Mothers at a Community-Based Psychosocial Support Program	Yufei Wu	Abstract
3 – 3:30p ET 12 – 12:30p PT	Break
3:30 – 5pm ET 12:30 – 2p PT
	Works-In-Progress
	An Introduction to MENA People in Cultural Psychiatry: A Curriculum by Members of the Advocacy Committee of the American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association (AMENA-Psy)	Layli Khaghani, Saba Ahmadi, Mohamed Elnakib, Nicole Fleischer	Abstract
	Centripetal versus Centrifugal Trends in Social and Cultural Psychiatry: A Conceptual Analysis	Vincenzo Di Nicola	Abstract
	Development and Implementation of a Multicultural Consultation Team within a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program	Sara Pardej, Benjamin W. Katz, Brianna Young, Gabriela Nagy	Abstract
	Workshop 7: Multiple Perspectives on Identity in Therapy	Larry Merkel	Abstract
	Workshop 8: Racism and psychiatry residency: A critical and systemic exploration of experiences	Nadia Abdessettar, Pascal Chavannes, Minh Thi Nguyen	Abstract
	Paper session 6: Addressing historical roots and ongoing harms
	Plantations, Prisons, and Psychiatrics: On the Criminalization of Mental Illness	Dorothy Abram	Abstract
	Ethnopsychopharmacology: Marginalization and counter measures in white and non-white populations	Mario Braakman	Abstract
	A Path Toward Mental Health Care with Northern and Indigenous Peoples of Canada	Azaad Kassam	Abstract
	Mental Health Challenges Related to Neoliberal Capitalism in the United States	Anna Zeira	Abstract

Day 3, Saturday, April 23, 2022

Time	Session	Speaker/Facilitator	Abstract
12 – 1:30p ET 9 – 10:30a PT
	Symposium 2: The Importance and Therapeutic Effects of the Immigrant Narrative		Abstract
	The Cuban Diaspora: A Comparative Analysis of the Search for Meaning Among Recent Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans	Rodolfo Bonnin
	Leaving for the “Nuevayores”: Dominican Immigrant Dreams and Aspirations	Arturo Sanchez-Lacay
	Immigrant Narratives	Eugenio Rothe
	Workshop 9: Reflections on identity in (clinical) practice	Winny Ang	Abstract
	Workshop 10: Rupture, repair and pediatric mental health narratives – working with disrupted family systems at the crossroads of crisis	Cody Roi, Charles Coleman	Abstract
	Workshop 11: The Psychiatry of Story Theatre	Marc Andrew Hem Lee, Eden Almasude	Abstract
	Paper session 7: Designing and providing culturally sensitive care
	Art and Cultural Psychiatry: Global initiatives of community engagement	Jaswant Guzder	Abstract
	Narrative, Meanings and Cultural Encounters in Psychiatry	Bipin Ravindran	Abstract
	A Narrative Review of Mental Illness Stigma Reduction Interventions Among African Americans in The United States	Kevo Rivera	Abstract
	Psychedelic Psychotherapy and the Cultural Concept of the Person	Khaleel Rajwani	Abstract
1:30 – 1:45p ET 10:30 – 10:45a PT	Break
1:45 – 2:30p ET 10:45 – 11:30a PT	Business Meeting Everyone is welcome! Come learn about the organization, meet this year’s award winners, and hear where SSPC is headed next
2:30 – 3:30p ET 11:30a – 12:30p PT
	Poster Session
	Mental Health Literary in an Indonesian Context: A Scoping Review	Ria Dwi Agustina	Abstract
	Depression and Anxiety in the Native Hawaiian-Pacific Islander Population.	Mohab Ali	Abstract
	Language Access and Equity Issues	Argyro Athanasiadi, Nithya Cherukuru, Anique Forrester	Abstract
	Disrupted Trajectories: Patient and Family Perspectives on Early Intervention Program Recovery for First Episode Psychosis	Aleksandra Bacewicz	Abstract
	Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for reducing implicit bias	Eugenia Calvo Prieto	Abstract
	Navigating Help: A Case of a Deaf Woman with Post-partum Depression Requesting Psychiatric Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic	Hajira Chaudhry, Bradley Judge	Abstract
	Idioms of Distress in Muslim and Congolese Refugee’s Perceptions of Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress	Aya Cheaito	Abstract
	Development of a Culturally Sensitive Asian American/Pacific Islander Curriculum for Child Psychiatry Trainees	Crystal Han	Abstract
	Integrating cultural humility and awareness in undergraduate psychiatry education in Somaliland: An international Academic Collaboration	Jibril Handuleh	Abstract
	Examining the Correlation between Social Determinants of Health, Mental Health, and Adverse Childhood Experiences	Cathy Ng	Abstract
	Early identification of emerging child mental health problems: Explanations for SENCO’s differing practices in mixed population primary schools.	Marloes Jaspers-van der Maten	Abstract
	The Christian Mental Health Initiative: Increasing Mental Health Literacy Among Black Church Leaders	Atasha Jordan	Abstract
	Co-designing for Implementation: Development of the Cultivando Fortaleza to Reduce Acculturative Stress in Latinx Immigrants	Gabriela Nagy	Abstract
	Trans(cending) Recovery: Discussions with Trans and Non-Binary Folks on Eating Disorder Recovery	Alicia Pinelli	Abstract
	Psychiatric Needs and Community Perspectives of Mental Health Care on Guam, USA	Rajkaran Sachdej	Abstract
	Together We RISE: Why does intersectionality matter? Applying an intersectional framework in psychiatry residency education	Ceciley Scarbrough, Maia L. Ou	Abstract
	Medication Side-effect Concerns Interpreted as Paranoid Delusions in a Bilingual Patient from Mali: Case Study	Andrew van der Vaart, David S. Mancini	Abstract
	Differences between Dutch and Turkish-Dutch individuals’ illness representations of depression and ADHD	Iclal Yildiz	Abstract
	3:30 – 5p ET 12:30 – 2p PT
		Paper session 8: The importance of intersectional approaches
		The Art of Passing: The Interplay of Race and Ethnicity in Facial Feminization Surgeries	Lukman-Afis Babajide	Abstract
		Suicide at the Intersections of Faith and Mental Health: Understanding Suicidal Behaviour and Distress in Young Muslim Canadians	Zainab Furqan	Abstract
Discrimination and Suicide Risk: The Intersectional Role of Gender Among Latinx Youth		Sylvanna Vargas	Abstract
Exploring Intersectionality in Adolescent Mental Health Through the Lens of Youth Collaborators		Phillip Yang, Jolie Gomez, Jake Neill	Abstract
Workshop 12: Our identities as psychiatrists: subspecialty and role diversity in cultural contexts		G. Eric Jarvis, Sanya Virani, Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Sarah El Halabi, Bernadette Mdawar	Abstract
Workshop 13: Strangers No More: Storytelling Strategies for Writing Our Selves and Connecting Communities		Natasha Damiano, Karen Young, Alka Kumar	Abstract
Resident Consultation Session		Kenneth Fung, Anna Fiskin, Lisa Andermann