2018 Summer Program

24th听Annual Summer Program

April 30 to August 24, 2018

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Registration information

for Academic Credit
for Professional Interest

Courses and workshops

Cultural Psychiatry
Psychiatric Epidemiology
Research Methods in Social听and听Cultural Psychiatry听
Working with Culture
The 平特五不中 Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)
Global Mental Health Research
Critical Neuroscience
Social and Cultural Neuroscience
Indigenous Mental Health Research

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In 1995, the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, 平特五不中 inaugurated an annual summer school in social and cultural psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. The program provides the conceptual background for research and clinical work in social and cultural psychiatry and will be of interest to:

postdoctoral trainees, and researchers听in psychiatry, psychology, and other mental health disciplines
graduate students in health and social sciences
physicians, psychologists, social workers, and other health professionals

The summer program forms part of the training activities of the Montreal WHO Collaborating Centre and is endorsed by the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology.

General information

Director: Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD

Administrator:听Consuelo Errazuriz

Administrative Office:
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry,
Department of Psychiatry
平特五不中
1033 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec 听听H3A 1A1

Tel.: 514-398-7302
Fax: 514-398-3282
Email: tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca

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Courses

PSYT711 Cultural Psychiatry

L. Kirmayer & Faculty (3 academic credits)

This course surveys recent theory and research on the interaction of culture and psychiatric disorders. Topics to be covered include: history of cultural psychiatry; cross-national epidemiological and ethnographic research on major and minor psychiatric disorders; culture-bound syndromes and idioms of distress; culture, emotion and social interaction; somatization and dissociation; psychosis; ritual and symbolic healing and psychotherapy; mental health of indigenous peoples; mental health of immigrants and refugees; psychiatric theory and practice as cultural constructions; methods of cross-cultural research; models of mental health care for multicultural societies; globalization and the future of cultural psychiatry.

Prerequisites: Courses in abnormal psychology, psychiatry or medical anthropology, and permission of the instructor.

Text: Course readings will be available in paper form and online at the 平特五不中 Bookstore

Date: May 1-24, 2018 (4 weeks) T路TH 413:30-18:00

Location: TBD

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PSYT713 Psychiatric Epidemiology

G. Galbaud du Fort, X. Mei & Faculty (3 academic credits)

This course offers an overview of the application of epidemiology in the field of psychiatry. Topics include: history of psychiatric epidemiology; epidemiologic research methods in psychiatry (in addition to basic methods, specific lectures will cover meta-analysis, family studies, assessment of needs for care, prevention) ; study of treatment-seeking, pathways to care, and use of services; epidemiology of specific diagnoses (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, somatization); research on risk factors (e.g., developmental impact of stress in pregnant women, childhood adversity and mood disorders, cannabis and psychosis); interaction between mental and physical disorders (e.g., depression and diabetes) ; introduction to evaluation of mental health services and programs (e.g., supported employment for people with severe mental illness).

Prerequisites: introductory courses in epidemiology and biostatistics, and permission of the instructor.

Text: Course readings will be available in paper form and online at the 平特五不中 Bookstore; presentations will be available online.

Date: April 30-May 25, 2018 (4 weeks) M路W路F4 13:30-16:45

Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West

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PSYT633 Research Methods in Social and Cultural Psychiatry

R. Whitley, A. Ryder & Faculty

This workshop will introduce participants to research methods in cultural and social psychiatry in a stepwise manner. The course consists of three modules: (1) introduction to qualitative research; (2) introduction to quantitative research; and (3) introduction to mixed-methods studies. Modules 1 and 2 will focus on methodologies, study design, execution, analysis and dissemination. In Module 3, students will learn how and when to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches in a mixed-method study. Ample time will be given for questions and discussion of participants鈥� projects.

Text: Course readings will be available in paper form and online at the 平特五不中 bookstore

Date: April 30-May 25, 2018 (4 weeks) M路W路F49:00-12:30

Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West

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Workshops

Working with Culture: Clinical Methods in Cultural Psychiatry

J. Guzder & C. Rousseau

This workshop for mental health practitioners provides an overview of clinical models and methods in cultural psychiatry. Topics include: working with translators and culture brokers; attending to culture, ethnicity, racism and power in individual and family interventions with migrants and ethnocultural minorities; how cultural work transforms the therapist; ethical issues in intercultural work; strategies for working in different settings including schools, community organizations and refugee immigration boards. Invited lecturers will frame the basic issues of clinical intervention through the paradigms of cultural voices and languages of symptoms, art, and play. The clinical intersection of healer, culture, diagnosis, and therapy will be approached by a review of developmental theories, identity, and life-cycle variations in migrant or minority experience.

Text: Course readings will be available online

Date: May 1-24, 2018 (4 weeks) T路Th4 09:00-12:00

Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West

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The 平特五不中 Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)

D. Groleau

This workshop will provide an introduction to the 平特五不中 Illness Narrative Interview (MINI), a semi-structured protocol for eliciting information about illness experience that has been widely used in psychiatry, medicine and global health research. This workshop will present the theoretical basis of the MINI as a tool for qualitative health research. We will also cover the potential links with the concepts and values of Person-Centered Medicine. The workshop will discuss ways to adapt the MINI to study issues involving health behavior, bodily practices, illness, diseases, somatic and emotional symptoms. Participants will practice the MINI in one-on-one interviews and learn ways to code and analyze qualitative data produced with the MINI.

Text: Course readings will be available online.

Date: June 4, 5 & 6, 2018 (12 hours)4 M路13:30-16:30, T路09:00-16:30, W路09:00-12:30

Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West

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Global Mental Health Research

M. Ruiz-Casares & Faculty

This workshop provides an introduction to key issues in global mental health (GMH) research with special reference to low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We will explore the tensions between a vertical public health approach, grounded in a biomedical frame and current evidence-based practices, and a horizontal community-based approach, that emphasizes local taxonomies and priorities, empowerment of local resources and endogenous solutions. This seminar will build a cultural critique of GMH and raise basic issues for discussion: (a) current priorities in GMH research have been largely framed by mental health professionals and their institutional partners based in Northern countries, reflecting the dominant interests of psychiatry and paying insufficient attention to Southern partners and local priorities; (b) the assumption in GMH that major psychiatric disorders are biologically determined and therefore universal; (c) the focus on existing evidence-based treatments, and the assumption that Western standard treatments can be readily applied across cultures with minimal adaptation; and (d) the emphasis on GMH interventions that may marginalize indigenous forms of healing and coping which may contribute to positive outcomes and recovery. The workshop aims to provide a balanced critical perspective on GMH as a new field of enquiry and practice that acknowledges the importance of the social determinants of mental health and the interplay between the social and the cultural with the biological dimensions of mental health. The format includes lectures, panel presentations, case studies and plenary discussions of readings by faculty and students, supplemented by video documentaries and films.

Text: Readings will be available online.

Date: May 28-31, 2018 (24 hours) M路T路W路TH4 09:00-17:00

Location: Room138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West.

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Critical Neuroscience

S. Choudhury & Faculty

This workshop provides an overview of current controversies surrounding cognitive neuroscience and the implications of recent advances in research for psychiatry, education, bioethics, and health policy. It will present the interdisciplinary project of critical neuroscience as a framework and set of tools with which to critically analyze interpretations of neuroscience data in the academic literature, their representation in popular domains and more broadly, the growth of neurocultures since the Decade of the Brain. This course will problematize and consider alternatives to neurobiological reductionism in psychiatry, neuroethics, cultural neuroscience and neuropolicy, attending to the models, metaphors and political contexts of mainstream brain research. It will also explore various avenues for engagement between neuroscience, social science and humanities. Sessions will be devoted to: critical methods; methodological problems in neuroscience; cultural neuroscience, social determinants of health; psychiatry, neuroeducation; mindfulness; and neuroethics.

Text: Choudhury, S. & Slaby, J. (Eds). (2012). Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience, New York: Wiley.

Date: June 11-14, 2018 (24 hours) M鈥路W路Th4 09:00-17:00

Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West

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Social and Cultural Neuroscience

L. Kirmayer, S. Kitayama, M. Meaney, C. Worthman & Guest Faculty

Co-sponsored by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research () and the 平特五不中 Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives Program (). This workshop will provide an overview of core topics and recent developments in social, and cultural neuroscience research in order to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration in global mental health. After an introduction to cognitive, social, and cultural neuroscience, the workshop will focus on the potential and limits of methods that can be used to measure epigenetic, neuroendocrine, and neurocognitive processes in laboratory and field settings. We will discuss the inter-relationships of these processes and how to map them onto phenomenological, ethnographic, and ecological variables through technologies including remote sensing techniques that capture health-relevant aspects of sociocultural contexts in situ. Participants will also have the opportunity to present their own research projects for discussion with faculty.

Date: August 13-17, 2018 (30 hours) M鈥路W路Th路F 4 09:00-17:00

Location: Room138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West &
Montreal Neurological Institute

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Indigenous Mental Health Research

L. Kirmayer & Guest Faculty

This workshop will survey recent work on the social determinants of mental health and discuss issues in the design and implementation of culturally appropriate mixed-methods research with Indigenous communities and populations. The emphasis will be on conceptual issues and the development of research methodology to address both common and severe mental health problems and interventions. Specific topics will include: ethical issues in Indigenous health research; social, historical and transgenerational determinants of mental health; the role of indigenous identity in mental health, resilience and well-being; suicide prevention and mental health promotion; participatory research methods; evaluation of community-based mental health services; culturally-adapted interventions; and indigenous approaches to healing.

Text: Kirmayer, L. J., & Valaskakis, G. G. (2009). Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Course readings will be available online

Date: August 20-23, 2018 (24 hours) M鈥路W路Th4 09:00-17:00

Location: Room138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West

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Guest Faculty

Eleanor Acer, Senior Director for Refugee Protection, Human Rights First

Dominic Aitken, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

Efrat Arbel, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia Allard School of Law.

Idil Atak, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Criminal Justice and Criminology

Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor, Harvard University, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Amy Bombay, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Nursing and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University

Mary Bosworth, Professor, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

Gregory Brass, PhD (Cand), Assistant Executive Director, Aanischaaukamikw, Cree Cultural Institute, Ouj茅-Bougoumou, Qu茅bec

Andrew Crosby, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

St茅phane Dandeneau, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec
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Daniela DeBono, Researcher, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies

Francesca Esposito, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

Andriani Fili, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

Christopher Fletcher,

Michael Flynn, Global Detention Project, Executive Director

Sarah Fraser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychoeducation, Universit茅 de Montr茅al

Alice Gerlach, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

Hanna Gros, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Jenny Jeanes, Coordinator, Detention Program, Action R茅fugi茅s Montr茅al

Blerina Kellezi, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

Shinobu Kitayama, PhD, Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology; Director of the Culture & Cognition Program, University of Michigan

Sarah Mares, Lecturer, University of New South Wales, School of Psychiatry

Samer Muscati, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Delphine Nakache, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Human Rights Research and Education Centre

Maayan Ravid, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology

Andrew Ryder, PhD, Associate Professor & Director, Culture and Personality Laboratory, Concordia University

Suzanne Stewart, PhD, CPsych, Associate Professor of Indigenous Healing in Counseling Psychology, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Caroline Tait, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan

Carol Worthman, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

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平特五不中 Faculty

Anne Andermann, MD, DPhil, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Lawrence Annable, Dip. Stat., Professor, Division of Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry

Alain Brunet, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Jacob Burack, PhD, Professor, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology

Fran莽ois Bourque, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Eduardo Chachamovich, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Suparna Choudhury, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry

Janet Cleveland, LLB, PhD, Researcher, SHERPA Research Centre, CIUSSS Centre-Ouest de l鈥橧le-de-Montr茅al

Ellen Corin, PhD, Associate Professor, Emerita, Department of Psychiatry

Fran莽ois Cr茅peau, Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, 平特五不中

Myriam Denov, PhD, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict, School of Social Work

Frank Elgar, PhD, Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Social Inequalities in Child Health, Department of Psychiatry & Institute of Health & Social Policy

Kia Faridi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Guillaume Galbaud du Fort, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Jewish General Hospital

Kathryn Gill, PhD, Associate Professor & Director of Research, Addictions Unit, MUHC

Ian Gold, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry

Danielle Groleau, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital

Jaswant Guzder, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Head of Child Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital

Srividya Iyer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

G. Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Cultural Consultation Service, Jewish General Hospital

Suzanne King, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC, James 平特五不中 Professor; Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital

Rachel Kronick, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Children Psychiatry & Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry

Marc Laporta, MD, Director, Montreal WHO-PAHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Douglas University Institute and 平特五不中 Health Center

Myrna Lashley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, 平特五不中

Eric Latimer, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Raphael Lencucha, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy

Karl Looper, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Jewish General Hospital

Nancy Low, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Ashok Malla, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Michael Meaney, PhD, FRSC, James 平特五不中 Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Dpoartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery; Co-Scientific Director, Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health; Director, Sackler Centre for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, Douglas Institute.

Toby Measham, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Xiangfei Meng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, 平特五不中

Lucie Nadeau, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Michel Perreault, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre

Amir Raz, PhD, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, Department of Psychiatry

C茅cile Rousseau, MD, MSc, Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Research and Training Centre, CSSS de la Montagne

Monica Ruiz-Casares, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry

Jai Shah, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Program for Prevention and Early Intervention in Psychosis, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Norbert Schmitz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre

Kazue Takamura, Lecturer, 平特五不中, International Development Studies

Brett Thombs, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital

Samuel Veissi猫re, PhD, Assistant Professor, Culture, Mind and Brain Program, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry

Ashley Wazana, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital

Daniel Weinstock, DPhil, James 平特五不中 Professor & Director, Institute for Health and Social Policy

Denis Wendt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology

Robert Whitley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Allan Young, PhD, Marjorie Bronfman Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, and Psychiatry

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