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The Montreal Neurological Institute has received a $250,000 donation from Bell's Let's Talk campaign to provide online mental health resources for multicultural communities. The donation will fund a three-year project to expand language options and content in Mandarin, Farsi, Arabic and other languages. Dr. Laurence Kirmayer discusses the importance of providing mental health information in [...]
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[:en] Supporting the Mental Health of Refugees to Canada outlines the MHCC’s work on immigrant and refugee mental health to date, summarizes current evidence and promising practices for refugee mental health, and advances recommendations for how the MHCC can support the arrival and integration of Syrian refugees to Canada. [:]
[:en] A primer for staff working in mental health and psychosocial support programme This review provides information about the sociocultural background and contextual aspects of mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of the Somali population. It is primarily written for humanitarian staff involved in providing mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) to Somali people who have been […]
Woori Maum Toronto is a Korean Canadian community organization based in Toronto, Ontario. Our aim is to reduce mental illness stigma and to enhance mental health and wellbeing. Source: Information — Woori Maum We have adapted the Fred Victor (prev. CRCT) booklet, Navigating Mental Health Services in Toronto: A Guide for Newcomer Communities, to specifically address […]
Source: Catalyst – October 2016 – Case for Diversity Paints Opportunity for Service Improvement | Mental Health Commission of Canada MHCC Backs Research in Case for Diversity with an Investment in Refugee Mental Health They say timing is everything. This is certainly true in the case of prescient policy work undertaken by the Mental Health […]
[:en] The European Psychiatric Association Guidelines on Cultural Competency EPA guidance on cultural competence training. Schouler-Ocak, M., Graef-Calliess, I. T., Tarricone, I., Qureshi, A., Kastrup, M. C., & Bhugra, D. (2015). European Psychiatry, 30(3), 431-440. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2015.01.012 What is Cultural Competency? Cultural Competency as a skillset “that a clinician can employ to understand the cultural values, attitudes […]
Researchers say it doesn’t have to do with socioeconomic status or Canada’s health care system. Researchers are finding that racism and a legacy of American slavery may play an even bigger role in health disparities, a revelation that is being unearthed by diving deep into numbers that compare the health of America’s black population with that of […]
[:en] Systematic Review of Cultural Competence Research Now Available This report by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reviews studies of interventions to improve culturally appropriate health care for people with disabilities; lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender populations; and racial/ethnic minority populations found that none examined cultural competence’s impact on disparities. Although many […]
Early in the twentieth century German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin travelled to Indonesia to see how mental illnesses there compared to what he knew back home. Transcultural psychiatry was born. Today McGill University is a world leader in the research and practice of a branch of psychiatry with links to anthropology, cultural studies and family therapy. […]
When Marina Nemat was 16 and living in Tehran, she was arrested at gunpoint and sentenced to life in Iran’s most notorious prison, where she was repeatedly tortured and assaulted. She now lives just north of Toronto, and argues that the best way to combat evil in the world is through small acts of kindness. […]