Program

Transforming Policy and Practice for Culturally Competent Mental Health Care*

*Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch (May 5–7) and one reception/light dinner.

Come Join Us for Three Days of:

Keynote sessions featuring Margarita Alegría, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Octavio Martínez, Executive Director of the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
Symposia on a variety of topics, with a keynote symposium on the Affordable Care Act, focusing on challenges to service delivery for patients of diverse cultural backgrounds
Workshops on patient care, teaching, and research
See old friends and make new ones.

This Program Will Prepare Attendees To:

Identify policy resources for improving cultural competence of clinical care, education, and research in mental health
Analyze and appraise the cultural applicability of policies and practices to diverse populations
Integrate cultural considerations in policies and practice guidelines relevant to their work in clinical care, education and research
Develop education materials on cultural psychiatry for health care professionals

Day 1, Thursday, May 5, 2016

Time	Title	Speaker/Facilitator
8:30–9:00	Welcome Remarks
9:00–10:00	Opening Plenary: Challenges and Opportunities of Coaching Providers in Shared Decision-Making and Improved Communication with their Multicultural Patients	Margarita Alegría Chair: Roberto Lewis-Fernández
10:00–10:15	Break
10:15–12:15	ACA Plenary: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions for Cultural Psychiatry	Donald Banik Sergio Aguilar-GaxiolaModerator/Discussant: Hendry Ton
12:15–1:15	Lunch
1:15–3:15	Workshop 1: Crouching Educator, Hidden Curriculum: The Art of Cultural Competence Education	Kenneth Fung Lisa Andermann
	Workshop 2: Cultural Family Therapy – The Theory and Practice of Cultural Psychiatry with Families (Family Track)	Vincenzo Di Nicola Steven J. Wolin
	Paper Session 1: Education – Innovations, Part 1 (Moderator: James Griffith)
	Development of a transformative leadership and health systems-strengthening training program: A pathway to engaging underserved populations	Gilberte Bastien
	The use of a mental health awareness tour to increase awareness of health disparities and mental health	Auralyd Padilla
	Espiritualidad y lenguaje: development of cultural competence with Latin@ populations through a service-learning course	Alyssa Ramírez Stege, Ivan Cabrera, Mary Dueñas, Stephen Quintana
	Structural competency: Experiences of early adopters of social determinants of health-focused clinical curricula	Sewit Bereket
	Using indigenous proverbs to improve cross-cultural communication and understanding of mental health concepts	Ahmed Hassan
3:15–3:30	Break
3:30–5:30	Workshop 3: Making Culture Matter in Complex Care Delivery and Organizational Practice	Madhuri Shors Dennis Maurer Roli Dwivedi Kate Erickson
	Workshop 4: Teaching the Management of Stigma Using Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience	James Griffith Brandon Kohrt
	Paper Session 2: Education – Innovations, Part 2 (Moderator: Kenneth Fung)
	Training Muslim religious leaders to reduce stigma and improve access to mental health care	Ahmed Hassan Pa Chia Vue
	“Learning from success” as a cultural training tool	Matityahu Angel
	Local reflective practice: A simple, comprehensive framework for cultural training of health service psychologists	Kelly M. Moore
	Microaggressions: A perspective on building a cultural psychiatry curriculum	Anique Forrester
	Reflecting on the educational and training aspects of the cultural experience in the placement of first-year medical students in First Nation and Métis communities	Bobby Chaudhuri
6:00–8:00	Reception at the Campus Club

Day 2, Friday, May 6, 2016

Time	Title	Speaker/Facilitator
8:30–10:30	Workshop 5: Training Clinicians in the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: An Evidence-Based Didactic and Experiential Workshop	Neil Aggarwal Ravi DeSilva Roberto Lewis-Fernández
	Workshop 6: Family and Culture: Clinical Tools for Everyday Practice	Ellen Berman Alison Heru
	Paper Session 3: Explanatory Models, Cultural Context, and Care (Moderator: Renato Alarcon)
	Therapist-patient discrepancy in illness explanations and early outcome in intercultural psychotherapy	Samrad Ghane
	Depression treatment-seeking in the context of a drug epidemic: Same services, different stigmas	Claire Snell-Rood
	The mediating role of family conflict, parental monitoring, and deviant peer relationships on the association between intergenerational cultural dissonance and alcohol use among Asian American youth	Jeremy Kane
	10:30–10:45	Break
10:45–11:30	Charles Hughes Memorial Fellowship Lecture (Part 1) Rethinking the concept of “kokoro no kea” (care for mind) for victims of disaster in Japan	Saikiko Yamaguchi
11:30–12:30	POSTER SESSION
	Ethnic and gender differences in domains of mental health recovery in a transcultural community mental health clinic	Poh Choo How
	Exploring older Hmong individuals’ expression and experience of depression: A qualitative study	Pachida Lo

	Advocating for advocacy: Assessing advocacy skills and student development in a counseling psychology doctoral program	Alyssa Ramírez-Stege, Dustin Brockberg, Elaina Meier
	Culture and mental health in a regional health district in Australia: Challenges and opportunities	Bipin Ravindran
	Attitudes and perceptions of suicide and suicide prevention messages for Asian Americans	Priyata Thapa
	The duration of untreated psychosis in an outpatient clinic in Mexico	Sylvanna Vargas
	An In-depth case study of urban space and parental agency in a public housing project in Baltimore City	J. Corey Williams
	Bad eye: North Siberian Turk culture-bound syndrome	Tsezar Korolenko Tatiana Korolenko
	Assessment of training needs in developing culturally competent mental health training models	Vishali Raval
	12:30–1:15	Lunch & Business Meeting
1:15–3:15	Workshop 7: Deportation of Mentally Ill Individuals Detained Under ICE Custody: Law Student Clinic and Psychiatry-Law Partnership	Chair: Jerome Kroll Linus Chan Chinmoy Gulrajani Nicholas Hittler
	Symposium 1: Transforming Counter-Terrorism Policy by Researching Religious Justifications of Violence: Three Cases of Islamist Terrorism	Neil Aggarwal John Horgan Ronald Schouten
	Paper Session 4: Global Mental Health (Moderator: Brandon Kohrt)
	Access to what? Contextualizing “diagnosis,” “recovery,” and “access to care” in Northern India	Sumeet Jain
	A qualitative study of community and health worker perceptions of task sharing: Lessons learned from Nepal	Anna Fiskin
	UVA-Guatemala initiative for mental health: Mental health care in post-conflict countries and implementing changes in poor resource settings	Souraya Torbey
	Political terrorism and prolonged abduction in Africa	Samuel Okpaku
	Community mental health in the Vanni: A community-based empowerment method for mass trauma and reconciliation	Kate Benham
3:15–3:30	Break
3:30–5:30	Workshop 8: Mindfulness and Racial Bias: Interrupting Unconscious Patterns	Terri Karis Madhuri Shors
	Symposium 2: Politics of Concern	Bruce Field Holly Dunn Nancy Luxon Discussant: Lisa Hilbink
	Workshop 9: Lessons from the Birth of the Women’s Movement: The film, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”	Francis Lu Moderator: Shannon Suo
	Workshop 10: Resident Case Consultation	Kenneth Fung

Day 3, Saturday, May 7, 2016

Time	Title	Speaker/Facilitator
8:30 – 10:30	Workshop 11: Cross-Cultural Instrument Adaptation Part 1: Adapting Existing Instruments	Bonnie Kaiser Brandon Kohrt Andrew Rasmussen Nuwan Jayawickreme
	Workshop 12: Implementing Culturally Sensitive Integrated Care Models: From Theory to Practice	Albert Yeung Trina Chang Nhi-Ha Trinh
	Workshop 13: The Amish and Mental Health Care: An Introduction to Cultural Factors, Current Treatment Models, and Future Directions	Emily Troyer Mary Kay Smith Julian Davies
	Paper Session 5: Refugee and Minority Populations (Moderator: James Boehnlein)
	Responding to the border crisis: Reflections of a clinical trainee	Rosemary Fister
	Integration of a refugee mental health service into a family medicine clinic	Larry Merkel
	Characteristics of culturally responsive mental health care systems for refugees	Patricia Shannon
	Diasporic encounters with culture: Implications for policy and practice	Joan Simalchik
	Cure violence/heal trauma: A cognitive-behavioral approach to reducing community violence in minority communities	Matthew Domínguez
10:30 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 11:45	Charles Hughes Memorial Fellowship Lecture (Part 2) Cholera, stigma, and the policy tangle in the Dominican Republic: An ethnography and policy analysis of Haitian migrant experiences	Hunter Keys
11:45 – 1:00	Lunch & Business Meeting
1:00 – 3:00	Workshop 14: Cross-Cultural Instrument Adaptation Part 2: Novel Tool Development	Bonnie Kaiser Brandon Kohrt Jo Weaver
	Workshop 15: Providing Quality Health Care with CLAS: Curriculum for Developing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services	Hendry Ton Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola
	Workshop 16: A Sociocultural Approach to the Assessment and Management of Postpartum Depression Among Immigrant Women	Pamela Montano Maria Jose Lisotto Matthew Domínguez

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Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation
Physicians: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University designates this live activity for a maximum of 19.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. (Day 1 – 6.75; Day 2 – 6.75; Day 3 – 6.0)

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