Program
Engagement, Empowerment, Equity
From Theory to Practice
April 25–27, 2019
DAY 1: Thursday, April 25, 2019
| Time | Title | Speaker/Facilitator |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome Remarks | |
| 9:00 – 10:45 | Plenary : A Forty Year History of SSPC and the Evolution of Cultural Psychiatry | Jim Boehnlein, Ronald Wintrob, Joseph Westermeyer, Francis Lu |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Hughes Fellowship Lecture: Exploring the social-ecology of parental monitoring in Peru | Katherine Pizarro |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch & Business Meeting | |
| 1:30 – 3:00 | Paper Session 1 : Diversity in Care Delivery: How can we Promote it and What are the Benefits? | |
| Cultural competences, ethnic matching and psychotherapy process among ethnic minorities | Samrad Ghane | |
| Supporting professional development and advancement of women | Lidija Petrovic-Dovat | |
| Supporting first-line workers to support youth: Implementing a culturally safe community of practice in youth mental health and wellness in Nunavik | Lucie Nadeau, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Jason Annahatak | |
| Paper Session 2 : Parenting and Family Perspectives | ||
| Resettlement challenges faced by refugee families in Québec, Canada: construction of a sustainable daily routine | Caroline Clavel | |
| Parenting in war, flight, and resettlement: The experience of Syrian refugee mothers in Quebec | Christina L. Klassen | |
| The Influence of Migration on Child Supervision: Perspectives of South Korean Parents and Children in Canada | Sol Park | |
| Workshop 1 : The Future of Psychiatry: A Cultural Transformation | Ted Lo, Raymond Chung, Syeda Qasim, Sim Kyuyoung | |
| Workshop 2 : Grant-writing in Cultural Psychiatry | Roberto Lewis-Fernández, Alan Teo, Laurence Kirmayer, Sophie Soklaridis | |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | Symposium 1 : The Pathfinders of Cultural Psychiatry | Moderator: John de Figueiredo, Discussant: Ronald Wintrob |
| Beginnings Of Cultural Psychiatry In Africa | Samuel Okpaku | |
| The Pathfinders Of Cultural Psychiatry In Central And South America | Renato Alarcón | |
| The Pathfinders Of Cultural Psychiatry In Asia | Daniel Chen | |
| Paper Session 3 : Grappling with Social Change: New Questions for Cultural Psychiatry | ||
| What Does Socializing on Facebook Mean for Your Mental Health? An Examination of Whether Online and Offline Social Contact Are Associated with Psychiatric Symptoms | Alan Teo | |
| Lessons Learned and Learning From Editing a Book on Islamophobia and Psychiatry | Steven Moffic | |
| Cultures of Atheism: Implications for Mental Health | George Eric Jarvis | |
| Workshop 3 : Cultural Change: Diversity Advisory Committee 1999-2018 and Society for Women in Academic Psychiatry, Twenty Years of a Diversity Initiative, Successes and Future Directions | Russell Lim, Francis Lu | |
| Workshop 4 : Cultural Appropriation and its Discontents: Delving into the Social Unconscious of Therapeutic Encounters | Seran Schug, Marisol Norris | |
| 6:00 – 8:00 | Chinese Banquet and 40 th Anniversary Dinner |
DAY 2: Friday, April 26, 2019
| Time | Title | Speaker/Facilitator |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Registration | |
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome Remarks | |
| 8:45 – 10:30 | Plenary : Towards a Cultural Psychotherapy of Empowerment | Martin La Roche, Vincenzo Di Nicola, Bonnie Wong, Franklynn Bartol |
| Moderator: Steven Wolin | ||
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Symposium 2 : Empowerment and Inclusion as Alternatives to Violent Radicalization | |
| Discrimination, Injustice And Support For Violent Extremism | Rochelle Frounfelker | |
| Empowering Youths By Fostering Their Future Orientation: A Way Of Countering Violent Radicalization? | Diana Miconi | |
| Reclaiming Power Through Social Justice And Not Radicalization | Yann Zoldan | |
| Paper Session 4 : Critical Perspectives on Engagement in Global Mental Health | ||
| Does community psychiatry really engage the community? Critical questions on ‘engagement’ and ‘empowerment’ from local healing shrines in India | Shubha Ranganathan | |
| “They came as if it was a jungle over here”: Local clinicians’ perception of humanitarian aid’s (dis)empowerment potential in post-earthquake Haiti | Annie Jaimes, Cécile Rousseau | |
| Eliciting recovery narratives in global mental health: What are the benefits and potential harms? | Bonnie Kaiser | |
| Workshop 5 : Advancing Ethical Know-How in Mental Health Research and Practice: From Theory to Practice | Ana Gómez-Carrillo, Nicole D’Souza, Mónica Ruiz-Casares | |
| *Workshop 6 : Service User Perspectives on Inclusion, Human Rights and System Accountability | Lana Frado, Lucy Costa | |
| *Workshop 7 : Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies | Renee Linklater | |
| *Workshop 8 : Engaging Faith Communities in Mental Health/Addictions | Yusra Ahmad, Baldev Mutta | |
| 12:15 – 1:15 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 – 2:45 | Paper Session 5 : Reflexivity and Intersectionality in Research and Clinical Care | |
| Whose culture matters? Locating culture in the clinic | Ana Gómez-Carrillo, George Eric Jarvis | |
| Race in Supervision: Let's talk about it | Alecia Greenlee, Cathy Schen | |
| Intersectional Approaches to Policy and Praxis | Joan Simalchik | |
| Workshop 9 : Racism Injuries and Mental Health | Bonnie Lee | |
| Workshop 10 : Cultural Psychotherapy Workshop | Martin La Roche | |
| *Workshop 11 : Empowering Family Initiatives | Kenneth Fung, Lee Steel, Rosalie Steinberg, | |
| Nicole Schulz | ||
| *Workshop 12 : Challenging the status quo and championing equity | Sonia Meerai, Baldev Mutta | |
| *Workshop 13 : An Innovative Approach towards Engaging and Empowering Immigrant Communities | Sunny Wang, Fei Fung, Moshe Sakal | |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Break | |
| 3:00 – 4:30 | Plenary : Empowerment: A Family Perspective | Josephine Wong, Martin La Roche |
| 4:30 – 5:30 | Poster session | |
| Culturally-safe space and empowerment: Reflections in adapting and implementing the Listening to One Another to Grow Strong program in Nlaka’Pamux First Nation | Erin Aleck | |
| Power and Recognition in Community Arts | Élise Bourgeouis-Guérin, Claire Lyke | |
| Engaging Indigenous organizations in the training and implementation of a mental health promotion program with frontline workers | Michaela Field | |
| The Role of Institutional Minority Trainee Development Events in Psychiatry Department Diversity Initiatives | Ian Hsu, Nikhil Patel, Tina Wu, Christina Lee, Lily Chan, Jennifer Hu | |
| A Path Toward Mental Health Care with Northern and Indigenous Peoples of Canada | Azaad Kassam | |
| Developing a Mental Health Classroom Curriculum for High School Students in Indigenous Communities in Northern Quebec | Eleanor McGroarty | |
| Complexity of orthopedic management in patients with psychological stress symptoms: Case review. | Zaid Mustafa | |
| Representations of domestic violence among immigrant men in the South Asian community of the Greater Toronto Area | Omaira Naweed | |
| Working in Partnership with Indigenous Communities to Adapt a Mental Health Wellness Program (LTOA) to School-Settings: Preliminary findings from a pilot study with Anishinaabe of Treaty #3 | Tristan Supino | |
| Mobile skin conductance response and its associations with HIV and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms | Kathy Trang | |
| Using a Community-Partnered Model to Culturally-Adapt a Biomarker Study Protocol | Sylvanna Vargas | |
| 6:30 – 8:30 | 40 th Anniversary Event : Old Timer’s Dinner | Pantheon Restaurant |
DAY 3: Saturday, April 27, 2019
| Time | Title | Speaker/Facilitator |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 10:00 | Paper Session 6 : Understanding and Caring for Youth | |
| Enabling a safe space for informed decision making in youth mental health services for a socio-culturally diverse population: Considering agency, engagement and webs of positionalities | Janique Johnson-Lafleur, Lucie Nadeau | |
| Using History to Empower Community-Based Knowledge Translation | Gerald McKinley | |
| “Culture Has to Matter When You’re Going to be Calling Them Neglectful”: Families And Professionals’ Views of Child Supervision | Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Emilia Gonzalez | |
| Paper Session 7 : Global Mental Health: Adaptation, Engagement, Trust | ||
| Engagement in Global Mental Health Research: Building Trust as a Complex Relational Practice among the Researcher, Research Assistant, and Study Participants | Sakiko Yamaguchi | |
| Lessons from adapting Motivational Interviewing, an individual-focused intervention, in a cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, “collectivist” setting in rural Nepal | Pragya Rimal | |
| Engaging children in mental health research: Exploring the use of a participatory approach to understand children’s experience of violence | Nicole D'Souza | |
| Workshop 14 : Self-Documentaries through Film-Making and Photovoice: New Tools for the Humanistic Mission of Cultural Psychiatry | James Griffith, Sauharda Rai | |
| Workshop 15 : Latino Undocumented Children and Families: Beyond a Border Crisis | Divya Chhabra, Will Martinez, Anna Fiskin | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Symposium 3 : Mental Health Sector Engagement and Empowerment in Africa: Examining Pathways and Personnel in Select Countries | |
| Counselling Across Urban Religious Spaces In Ghana: Opportunities And Obstacles | Annabella Osei-Tutu | |
| Engaging And Empowering Lay Counsellors In Ghana: Evaluation Of A Workshop | Vivian Dzokoto | |
| Where Did The Patient Go? Pathways To Care And Mental Health Care Pluralism In Tanzania | Neely Myers | |
| Paper Session 8 : Promoting Culturally Competent Programs and Clinicians | ||
| The NL “Eastern Health Diversity Project”: What does ‘culture’ have to do with it? | Mohammad Syaket Ahmed Shakil, Fern Brunger | |
| Training and Education to Advance Multicultural Mental Healthcare Delivery (the “TEAM Healthcare Delivery Model”): Pilot Evaluation of Outcomes, Acceptability, and Feasibility | Gabriela Nagy | |
| Empathetic Engagement: A Model for Transforming Cultural Psychiatry to be more Equitable and Diverse Within it’s Day-to-Day Practice for Discussion and Teaching | Bobby Chaudhuri | |
| Workshop 16 : Blood, Sweat and Fears: Lessons Learned from Engaging Diverse Populations on the Streets of New York | Jennifer Traxler, Mark Nathanson, Dhruv Gupta | |
| Workshop 17 : Designing Cultural Psychiatry Curricula | Matthew Edwards, Belinda Bandstra, Laurence Kirmayer, Anna Fiskin, Larry Merkel, Kenneth Fung | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch | |
| Senior Advisory Group Effort (SAGE) Meeting | ||
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Paper Session 9 : Mental Health Experiences: Phenomenology, Diagnosis, Advocacy | |
| Using the Cultural Formulation Interview to Clarify Diagnosis between Psychotic and Trauma-related Etiology in the Case of an El Salvadorian Immigrant | Crystal Han, Anique Forrester | |
| The First-Episode Psychosis Experience of Filipino-Canadians in Montreal | Jenna Pastorini | |
| Collective action: How can organizing psychiatrists change patient care? | Eden Almasude | |
| Workshop 18 : Building Bridges: An Experiential Training in Cultural Sensitivity | Winny Ang, Liesbeth Verpooten | |
| Workshop 19 : Reducing Mental Health Disparities through Meaningful Engagement of Diverse Marginalized Communities | Kenneth Fung, Josephine Wong, Alan Li | |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Closing Ceremony | |
| 4:00 – 5:30 | Special Event : Psychiatric Patients 19th Century Wall Tour: Walking Tour with Historian Geoffrey Reaume from York University | |
| 5:30 – 9:00 | Family Interest Group Meeting |
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Early bird registration ends January 31, 2019!