Presentation Information
[SY-62]Community mental health care: perspectives in Canada, Korea, and Japan inspired by a cultural -ecosocial view.
Laurence Kirmayer2, Boung Chul Lee3, Chiyo Fujii4, Masayuki Noguchi1 (1.Okayama Prefectural Mental Health & Welfare Center(Japan), 2.McGill Univdersity(Canada), 3.Hallym University Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital(Korea), 4.National Institute of Mental Health National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry(Japan))
Keywords:
community mental health,cultural-ecosocial perspective,cultural psychiatry,disaster psychiatry
This symposium will focus on community mental health systems that provide care for individuals experiencing psychological distress, including those with severe mental illness, disaster victims, immigrants, and refugees.
These populations often face significant vulnerabilities due to precarious living conditions, socioeconomic challenges, stigma, and prejudice.
Psychological distress can exacerbate these vulnerabilities, creating a cycle that deepens their burden.
Community mental health systems, whether addressing severe mental illness, disaster recovery, or the needs of immigrants and refugees, share core features and functions. These systems strive to:
1. Understand the distress of individuals within their unique socio-cultural contexts.
2. Engage clients collaboratively alongside multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral service providers to address the social determinants of mental health.
3. Strengthen social resources to support recovery and wellness and to facilitate the integration of individuals into their communities.
4. Promote understanding and reduce stigma associated with psychological distress and mental illness at the community level.
This symposium brings together speakers from Canada, South Korea, and Japan, each with expertise in supporting immigrants and refugees, disaster psychiatry, and community-based mental health services. Particularly a “cultural-ecosocial" perspective of psychiatry (Kirmayer, 2019), would be a shared principle and framework expected to integrate these diverse perspectives globally. Our goal aligns with the WHO's vision of providing “mental health for all” (WHO, 2022).
These populations often face significant vulnerabilities due to precarious living conditions, socioeconomic challenges, stigma, and prejudice.
Psychological distress can exacerbate these vulnerabilities, creating a cycle that deepens their burden.
Community mental health systems, whether addressing severe mental illness, disaster recovery, or the needs of immigrants and refugees, share core features and functions. These systems strive to:
1. Understand the distress of individuals within their unique socio-cultural contexts.
2. Engage clients collaboratively alongside multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral service providers to address the social determinants of mental health.
3. Strengthen social resources to support recovery and wellness and to facilitate the integration of individuals into their communities.
4. Promote understanding and reduce stigma associated with psychological distress and mental illness at the community level.
This symposium brings together speakers from Canada, South Korea, and Japan, each with expertise in supporting immigrants and refugees, disaster psychiatry, and community-based mental health services. Particularly a “cultural-ecosocial" perspective of psychiatry (Kirmayer, 2019), would be a shared principle and framework expected to integrate these diverse perspectives globally. Our goal aligns with the WHO's vision of providing “mental health for all” (WHO, 2022).