Guidelines for Training in Cultural Psychiatry

Laurence J Kirmayer; Kenneth Fung; Cécile Rousseau; Hung Tat Lo; Peter Menzies; Jaswant Guzder; Soma Ganesan; Lisa Andermann; Kwame McKenzie

doi:10.1177/0706743720907505

Guidelines for Training in Cultural Psychiatry

Can J Psychiatry. 2021 Feb;66(2):195-246. doi: 10.1177/0706743720907505. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Authors

Laurence J Kirmayer¹, Kenneth Fung², Cécile Rousseau³, Hung Tat Lo⁴, Peter Menzies⁵, Jaswant Guzder⁶, Soma Ganesan⁷, Lisa Andermann⁸, Kwame McKenzie⁹

Affiliations

¹ James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, 5620McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec.
² Clinical Director, Asian Initiative in Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario; Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; President, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, Toronto, Ontario.
³ Professor, Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, 5620McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
⁴ Director, Asian Clinic, Hong Fook Mental Health Association, Toronto, Ontario.
⁵ Psychiatrist, Four Directions Therapeutic and Consulting Services, working with First Nations communities in northern Ontario.
⁶ Professor, Department of Psychiatry, 5620McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; Senior Clinician, Cultural Consultation Service, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec; Senior Clinician, Child Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec.
⁷ Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia; Director, Cross Cultural Psychiatry Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
⁸ Psychiatrist, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; Associate Professor, Equity, Gender and Populations Division, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
⁹ CEO, Wellesley Institute, Toronto, Ontario; Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Director, Department of Health Equity, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario.

Abstract

This position paper has been substantially revised by the Canadian Psychiatric Association (CPA)'s Section on Transcultural Psychiatry and the Standing Committee on Education and approved for republication by the CPA's Board of Directors on February 8, 2019. The original position paper¹ was first approved by the CPA Board on September 28, 2011.

MeSH terms

Canada
Ethnopsychology*
Humans
Internship and Residency*
Societies, Medical