Background This Commission addresses several priority areas for psychiatry over the next
decade, and into the 21st century. These represent challenges and opportunities for the …

The growing numbers of refugees and immigrants from conflict-prone areas settling
throughout the world bring several challenges for those working in the mental health care …

Indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees and racialized groups, as well as some long-
established ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious communities, experience inequities in …

Objective Disparities in child mental health service engagement suggest traditional
evidence-based practices do not properly consider cultural and contextual factors relevant …

This article reviews the clinical and research literature on the Cultural Formulation Interview
(CFI) since its publication in DSM-5. The CFI is an interview protocol designed to be used by …

This third edition book offers a paradigm shift in thinking (from binary to complex) and
enables visibility for the intersectionality of multiple identities that range from privileged to …

The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) developed for DSM-5 provides a way to collect
information on patients' illness experience, social and cultural context, help-seeking, and …

While social science research has demonstrated the importance of culture in sha**
psychiatric illness, clinical methods for assessing the cultural dimensions of illness have not …

Background Major efforts are underway to improve access to mental health care in low-and
middle-income countries (LMIC) including systematic training of non-specialized health …

Ways of dealing with bereavement and grief are influenced by the norms of one's cultural
identity. Cultural assessment of bereavement and grief is therefore needed for a …