Presentation Information
[SY-47]Engaging Culture in the Community
George Eric Jarvis1, Jaswant Guzder1,3, Janique Johnson-Lafleur2, Lucie Nadeau1 (1.McGill University(Canada), 2.Sherpa University Institute, CIUSSS West-Montreal(Canada), 3.University of British Colombia(Canada))
Keywords:
Culture,Community,Assessment,Intervention
Background: It is common to acknowledge the need for cultural assessments and interventions in mental health care, yet many clinicians are unsure about how to proceed.
Objectives: This symposium will address this need by considering examples of how to engage culture in ethnic and religious communities.
Methods: Four clinician-researchers from McGill University will describe how they weave culture into assessment and intervention and how they resolve emergent challenges.
Results: Examples of cultural engagement of communities include: (1) Integrating cultural objects in mental health to navigate moving between Indigenous and non-Indigenous epistemic worlds and the colonial imprint, (2) Reflecting on challenges of child cultural psychiatry and benefits of global health collaborations, (3) Investigating the strengths and limitations of communities of practice as an intercultural competence training modality, and (4) Engaging community leaders through cultural consultation to resolve difficult clinical dilemmas in cross-cultural contexts. Each of these exemplifies the power of communities to improve clinical decision-making.
Conclusions: Culture and community are inextricably intertwined. To address culture in clinical contexts implies an appeal to community and consideration of the nuanced insights it brings to assessment and treatment.
Objectives: This symposium will address this need by considering examples of how to engage culture in ethnic and religious communities.
Methods: Four clinician-researchers from McGill University will describe how they weave culture into assessment and intervention and how they resolve emergent challenges.
Results: Examples of cultural engagement of communities include: (1) Integrating cultural objects in mental health to navigate moving between Indigenous and non-Indigenous epistemic worlds and the colonial imprint, (2) Reflecting on challenges of child cultural psychiatry and benefits of global health collaborations, (3) Investigating the strengths and limitations of communities of practice as an intercultural competence training modality, and (4) Engaging community leaders through cultural consultation to resolve difficult clinical dilemmas in cross-cultural contexts. Each of these exemplifies the power of communities to improve clinical decision-making.
Conclusions: Culture and community are inextricably intertwined. To address culture in clinical contexts implies an appeal to community and consideration of the nuanced insights it brings to assessment and treatment.