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[SY-68]Rethinking Trauma: Cultural Models of Care Across Clinical Practice and Treatment Systems
Jessica Carlsson1, Charlotte Sonne1, Naoko Miyaji2, Selim G. Atici3,4, Laurence Kirmayer5 (1.University of Copenhagen(Denmark), 2.Hitotsubashi University(Japan), 3.Princeton University(United States of America), 4.University of Tokyo(Japan), 5.McGill University(Canada))
This panel brings together clinical psychiatrists and social scientists in dialogue on emerging practices for understanding and treating trauma in its cultural, migratory, and gendered dimensions. The complexities of providing trauma care within diverse settings—particularly for refugees and asylum seekers—highlight the need for culturally competent clinical interventions and research on treatment effectiveness. However, models of trauma and clinical pathways often struggle to keep pace with new insights arising from cross-cultural contexts and rapidly shifting migratory realities. A key focus of the panel is how medical practitioners and mental health professionals address the gaps between existing cultural frameworks of trauma and the institutional protocols that shape conditions of care. By drawing on clinical and experiential data, we aim to showcase how diverse actors adapt and reinterpret standard trauma models, thereby revealing specific iterations and contested nature of cultural competency.
Panelists are invited to discuss their clinical accounts and share perspectives on how definitions of trauma are formed, recognized, and sometimes reconfigured through interactions that bridge legal, medical, and cross-cultural domains. Knowledge generated in practice can both advance and complicate understandings of trauma and its manifestations in co-morbidities. We explore how emergent cultural and geographic mobilities intersect with different health systems to reshape trauma experiences, with potential challenges and transformations to clinical practice.
Panelists are invited to discuss their clinical accounts and share perspectives on how definitions of trauma are formed, recognized, and sometimes reconfigured through interactions that bridge legal, medical, and cross-cultural domains. Knowledge generated in practice can both advance and complicate understandings of trauma and its manifestations in co-morbidities. We explore how emergent cultural and geographic mobilities intersect with different health systems to reshape trauma experiences, with potential challenges and transformations to clinical practice.