Author Archives: admin

The Clinical Ethnographic Interview: opening up the diagnostic process

“Depression questionnaires were never set up for the world’s population. They were set up in the West,” says Denise St Arnault, professor in the University of Michigan School of Nursing. For decades researchers have shown the degree to which there is cultural variation in the experience of mental illness, and yet clinicians continue to mostly […]

Working for Recovery

 Traditionally seen as a remission of symptoms, there has been a growing group of academics and people with lived experience with mental illness advocating for a new definition of recovery and a distinction between recovery and cure. In this podcast, Rob Whitley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and Researcher at […]

Strengthening research in Aboriginal mental health

The work done by the Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research was featured in the Fall edition of JGH News, a publication of the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. Laurence Kirmayer founded the Network 15 years ago. Since then it has grown from a provincial to a national organization with ties to researchers around the [...]

Podcast: Dr. Linda Shohet on Health Literacy

Welcome to the Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre Blog. Here, you will find podcasts, video interviews, and posts concerning culture and mental health in Canada and abroad. We are delighted to share with you our very first podcast with an expert and researcher in the area of literacy and health–Dr. Linda Shohet. A member of […]

Video: Dr. Laurence Kirmayer introducing the MMHRC

Canada is a highly diverse society, close to 1 out of 5 people were born outside of the country. Every year about 250,000 immigrants are accepted into the country, about 25,000 refugees. The Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre (MMHRC) is a clearing house for information on cultural diversity relative to providing mental health services to […]

Dr. Cécile Rousseau on how identity affects mental health

The CBC speaks with Dr. Cécile Rousseau about psychiatry’s move toward integrating culture in training and psychiatric practices. Listen here for a fascinating dialogue about how this important aspect of identity is impacting the Canadian mental health context.  Dr. Rousseau is a professor in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal where she directs the Transcultural Child […]

About Us

The MulticulturalMental Health Resource Centre (MMHRC) seeks to improve the quality and availability of mental health services for people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, including immigrants, refugees, and members of established ethnocultural communities. Addressing issues of language, culture, religion and other aspects of cultural diversity can promote greater equity in mental health care. This website […]