20th Annual Summer Program
May 5 to June 27, 2014
You can download the 2014 Summer Program in PDF format.
2014 Summer School Program.pdf
General information
Registration information
Courses and workshops
- Cultural Psychiatry
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Working with Culture
- Introduction to the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)
- Global Mental Health Research
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Indigenous Mental Health Research
- Qualitative Research Methods in Social and Cultural Psychiatry
- Social and Community Psychiatry
- Use of Film in Cultural Psychiatry
Guest faculty
McGill faculty
2014 Registration for CME Credits & Professional Interest*
In 1995, the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University inaugurated an annual summer school in social and cultural psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. The program provides the conceptual background for research and clinical work in social and cultural psychiatry and will be of interest to:
- postdoctoral trainees, researchers, and clinicians in psychiatry and other mental health disciplines
- residents and graduate students in health and social sciences
- physicians, psychologists, social workers and health professionals
The summer program forms part of the training activities of the Montreal WHO Collaborating Centre and is endorsed by the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology.
General information
Director: Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD
Administrator: Consuelo Errazuriz
Administrative Office:
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry,
Department of Psychiatry
McGill University
1033 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1
Tel.: 514-398-7302
Email: tcpsych [at] mcgill.ca
Registration Information
Courses may be taken for academic credit, Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit, or for professional interest. Workshops may be taken only for professional interest or CME.
Enrolment for courses and workshops is limited and early application is strongly advised. Please note the application deadlines in order to submit your application on time.
Professional Interest and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit
Students and professionals applying to the summer program for professional interest can do so through the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. On successful completion of the course or workshop a certificate of attendance will be provided by the Division. This does not confer formal academic credit, for which a separate application is required (see below). Registrations for professional interest are accepted as long as room is available in a course or workshop.
Medical practitioners may take courses and workshops for CME credit. Psychiatrists and general practitioners from North America, who are not seeking academic credits, may enrol for Continuing Medical Education (CME) study credits available from McGill University, Division of Continuing Health and Professional Education. The CHPE grants continuing medical education credits for physicians and is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) for MAINPRO-M1 credits, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education of the United States (ACCME). Those interested in obtaining CME credits must indicate this clearly on the registration form at the end of this brochure. Participants must sign in daily in order to receive CME credits and attestation certificates.
Registration for Professional Interest or CME credit can only be completed through the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry.
To register for Professional Interest and CME credit please contact: Summer Program Coordinator, tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca, Tel: 514-398-7302
Academic credit
The Cultural Psychiatry (PSYT711) and Psychiatric Epidemiology (PSYT713) courses may be taken for academic credit by students enrolled in a graduate program at McGill or another university. All applicants for academic credit must submit their CV to the summer program coordinator at tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca to obtain permission to attend the course(s). Be sure to include your current contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) and specify which course(s) you would like to attend. After this initial step, all further correspondence regarding the registration process for academic credit will be with the Department of Psychiatry Graduate Program Coordinator, by e-mail at: graduate.psychiatry [at] mcgill.ca, Tel: 514-398-4176 or Fax: 514-398-4370.
McGill Graduate Students
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students may register on Minerva once the summer registration period for graduate students begins. Students are billed by McGill Student Accounts.
McGill Double Program Students and McGill Psychiatry Residents
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to apply for “Special Student” status at www.mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/apply/ by February 15, 2014. A $100.00 (CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop fees). Official notification of acceptance as a “Special Student” is issued by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Double program students must use the paper Minerva forms to register for course(s), not the online Minerva registration process. McGill double program students and McGill psychiatry residents are billed by McGill Student Accounts: https://www.mcgill.ca/student-accounts/tuition-fees/general-information/exchange-senior-citizens-part-time-and-double-program
Non-McGill, Québec University Students
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to request an interuniversity transfer of credits (www.crepuq.qc.ca). Fees are paid to your home university.
Students from University of Toronto and University of British Columbia
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to submit a registration exchange form to their home university and to the graduate program coordinator at McGill. Fees are paid to your home university.
Students from other Universities in Canada
Students must first receive permission to attend the course(s) as described earlier. If you are registered in a graduate program at a Canadian university (different from those mentioned above) and would like to take courses at McGill, you can apply as a visiting student. If you would like to take graduate-level courses, without the intention of obtaining a degree or diploma, you may apply as a special student. Applicants must apply by February 15, 2014 at
www.mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/apply/. A $100.00 (CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop fees). Official notification of acceptance as a “Visiting Student” or a “Special Student” is issued by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Students obtain a McGill student identity number when applying and use this to register for the course(s) on Minerva. Transfer of academic credits should be arranged with the applicant’s own university. Fees are paid to your home university.
International Students
After receiving permission to attend the course(s), students need to apply for “Special Student” status at www.mcgill.ca/gradapplicants/apply/ by January 15, 2014. A $100.00 (CAD) application fee is required. (This amount cannot be applied towards course/workshop fees). Official notification of acceptance as a “Special Student” is issued by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Students obtain a McGill student identity number when applying and use this to register for the course(s) on Minerva. Transfer of academic credits should be arranged with the applicant’s own university. Students are billed by McGill Student Accounts.
M.Sc. Program in Psychiatry
Students wishing to apply for the MSc program in Psychiatry (with concentration in Social and Transcultural Psychiatry) should direct inquiries to:
Graduate Program Coordinator
Ms. Danielle Bastien
Department of Psychiatry
McGill University
1033 Pine Avenue West, Room 105
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A1
Tel.: 514-398-4176
Email: graduate.psychiatry [at] mcgill.ca
Website: https://www.mcgill.ca/psychiatry/
The deadlines for applications and documents from International and Canadian students for the MSc and PhD programs are:
September 15 for entry in January.
January 15 for entry in May for international applicants for MSc and PhD and part time International applicants for summer courses.
February 15 for entry in May for Canadian degree program applicants and for part time in the Transcultural courses.
March 15 for Canadian and international applicants for entry in September.
For more information please visit: https://www.mcgill.ca/psychiatry/education/graduate-program
2014 Registration for CME Credits & Professional Interest*
Enrolment is limited. Early registration is advised to ensure a place. Registration must be accompanied by an up-to-date curriculum vitae and a $50.00 (CDN) non-refundable registration fee, by cheque payable to McGill University or credit card (authorization form included in brochure). The balance of fees must be paid by the first day of classes. The department reserves the right to cancel under-subscribed courses in the Summer Program. In such cases, fees will be returned to the applicant.
NOTE: If paying by credit card, please send the credit card authorization form by MAIL only.
Courses and workshop
First Session: May 5-27, 2014
Courses
- Click on the course number to see full description.
- Click here for a list of Required and Recommended readings for these courses.
L. Kirmayer & Faculty (3 academic credits)
This seminar surveys recent theory and research on the interaction of culture and psychiatric disorders. Topics to be covered include: history of cultural psychiatry; crossnational epidemiological and ethnographic research on major and minor psychiatric disorders; culture-bound syndromes and idioms of distress; culture, emotion and social interaction; somatization and dissociation; psychosis; ritual and symbolic healing and psychotherapy; mental health of indigenous peoples; mental health of immigrants and refugees; psychiatric theory and practice as cultural constructions; methods of crosscultural research; models of mental health care for multicultural societies; globalization and the future of cultural psychiatry.
Prerequisites: Courses in abnormal psychology and medical anthropology.
Text: Course readings will be available at the McGill Bookstore.
Begins: May 6, 2014 (4 weeks) T•Th 13:30-18:00 & W 09:00-12:30
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
G. Galbaud du Fort, N. Frasure-Smith & Faculty (3 academic credits)
This course offers an overview of the application of epidemiology in the field of psychiatry. Topics include: epidemiologic research methods in psychiatry; instruments and methods used in community studies; study of treatment-seeking, pathways to care, and use of services; interaction between psychological distress and physical health; methods used in specific populations and for specific disorders; introduction to clinical trials, needs for care and evaluation research.
Prerequisites: EPIB 601 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
Text: Course readings will be available at the McGill Bookstore.
Begins: May 5, 2014 (4 weeks) M•W•F 13:30-16:45
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Workshops
Working with Culture: Clinical Methods in Cultural Psychiatry
C. Rousseau, J. Guzder & Faculty
This workshop for mental health practitioners provides an overview of clinical models and methods in cultural psychiatry. Topics include: working with translators and culture brokers; attending to culture, ethnicity, racism and power in individual and family interventions with migrants and ethnocultural minorities; how cultural work transforms the therapist; ethical issues in intercultural work; strategies for working in different settings including schools, community organizations and refugee immigration boards. Invited lecturers will frame the basic issues of clinical intervention through the paradigms of cultural voices and languages of symptoms, art, and play. The clinical intersection of healer, culture, diagnosis, and therapy will be approached by a review of developmental theories, identity, and life cycle variations in migrant or minority experience.
Text: Course readings will be available at the McGill Bookstore.
Begins: May 6, 2014 (4 weeks) T•Th 09:00-12:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Introduction to the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)
D. Groleau
The McGill Illness Narrative Interview is a semi-structure protocol for eliciting information about illness experience that has been widely used in psychiatry, medicine and global health research. This workshop will present the theoretical basis of the MINI as a tool for qualitative health research. We will also cover the potential links with the concepts and values of Person-Centered Medicine. The workshop will discuss ways to adapt the MINI to study issues involving health behavior, bodily practices, illness, diseases, somatic and emotional symptoms. Participants will practice the MINI in one-to one interviews and learn ways to code and analyze qualitative data produced with the MINI.
Begins: May 5, 2014 (9 hours) M 09:30-12:30
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Global Mental Health Research
D. Pedersen & Faculty
The seminar provides an introduction to key issues in global mental health (GMH) research with special reference to low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We will explore the tensions between a vertical public health approach, grounded in a biomedical frame and current evidence-based practices, and a horizontal community-based approach, that emphasizes local taxonomies and priorities, empowerment of local resources and endogenous solutions. The seminar will build a cultural critique of GMH and raise basic issues for discussion: (a) current priorities in GMH research have been largely framed by mental health professionals and their institutional partners based in Northern countries, reflecting the dominant interests of psychiatry and paying insufficient attention to Southern partners and local priorities; (b) the assumption in GMH that major psychiatric disorders are biologically determined and therefore universal; (c) the focus on existing evidence-based treatments, and the assumption that Western standard treatments can be readily applied across cultures with minimal adaptation; and (d) the emphasis on GMH interventions that may marginalize indigenous forms of healing and coping which may contribute to positive outcomes and recovery. The ultimate goal of this seminar is to outline a balanced critical perspective on GMH as a new field of enquiry and practice that acknowledges the importance of the social determinants of mental health and the interplay between the social and the cultural with the biological dimensions of mental health. The seminar will include lectures, panel presentations, case studies and plenary discussions of readings by faculty and students, supplemented by video documentaries and films.
Begins: May 9, 2014 (18 hours) F 09:00-12:30
Location: Room 101 (Don Bates seminar room), Department of Social Studies of Medicine, 3647 Peel Street
Second Session: June 9-27, 2014
Community-Based Participatory Research
A. C. Macaulay, Jon Salsberg & Kahnawake Community-Researcher Team
This workshop, facilitated by members of the Participatory Research at McGill centre (http://pram.mcgill.ca), together with Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project researchers and community members (www.ksdpp.org), will address participatory research based on their experiences. Topics will include: participatory research theory; building and maintaining healthy respectful partnerships; developing collaborative project strategies from design through dissemination; ownership of research data; maximizing benefits and minimizing community risks; capacity building and sustainability; and increased knowledge translation. The development and application of the CIHR Guidelines for Research Involving Aboriginal People and the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project Code of Research Ethics will be included. Obligations of researchers and community partners will be discussed in the context of the ethics of respecting individuals and community.
Date: June 9, 2014 (6 hours) M 09:00-16:00.
Location: This workshop takes place in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, but students are required to present themselves to Classroom 1, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West, by 7:45 a.m. in order to be transported as a group to Kahnawake.
Indigenous Mental Health Research
L. Kirmayer & Guest Faculty
This workshop will survey recent work on the social determinants of mental health and discuss issues in the design and implementation of culturally appropriate mixed-methods research with Indigenous communities and populations. The emphasis will be on conceptual issues and the development of research methodology to address both common and severe mental health problems and interventions. Specific topics will include: ethical issues in Indigenous health research; the role of Indigenous identity in mental health, resilience and well-being; suicide prevention and mental health promotion; visual methods in Aboriginal mental health research; evaluation of community-based mental health services; culturally adapted interventions; and Indigenous approaches to healing.
Text: Kirmayer, L. J., & Valaskakis, G. G. (2009). Healing traditions: The mental health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Date: June 10-12, 2014 (18 hours) T•W•Th 09:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Qualitative Research Methods in Social and Cultural Psychiatry
R. Whitley & Faculty
This course will introduce participants to qualitative research in social and cultural psychiatry. Students will learn how to design and execute a small-scale qualitative study. They will also learn about the various qualitative analytical techniques as well as strategies of dissemination. Topics include: in-depth interviewing; focus groups; participant observation; analytical techniques; criteria of rigour; computer-assisted qualitative data analysis; ethical issues and obtaining Research Ethics Board review; funding applications; and writing for publication. Time will be given for discussion of participants’ research interests or projects.
Date: June 16-17, 2014 (12 hours) M•T 09:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Social and Community Psychiatry
E. Latimer & R. Whitley
This course will review core issues in current research in social and community psychiatry. The following topics will be discussed in relation to mental illness: recovery, stigma and media representations of mental illness, peer support, religiosity, housing, employment, assertive community treatment and case management, evidence-based medicine, and health inequalities.
Date: June 18-19, 2014 (12 hours) W•Th 09:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Use of Film in Cultural Psychiatry
E. Colucci & R. Lemelson
This course will introduce participants to the use of film and other visual methods in cultural psychiatry and global mental health. Topics will include: an overview of artsbased methods in mental health research with a focus on visual methods, including film and photography; uses of film as a tool in research, education and advocacy; methods of community outreach and engagement using films; and ethical issues. There will be daily screening of films and guest faculty discussing specific methods and applications in research, medical education, and mental health promotion.
Date: June 25-27, 2014 (18 hours) W•Th•F 9:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West
Guest faculty
Gilles Bibeau, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal
Gregory Brass, M.A., Ph.D. (Cand), Coordinator, Regional Mental Health Department, Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay
Erminia Colucci, PhD, Honorary Lecturer, Centre for International Mental Health, University of Melbourne.
Stéphane Dandeneau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Sylvaine de Plaen, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal; Consultant, Out-Patient and Consultation-Liaison Services, Hôpital Ste-Justine
Suman Fernando, M.D., Honorary Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, European Centre for Migration & Social Care, University of Kent
Christopher Fletcher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université Laval
Sarah Fraser, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Psychoeducation, Université de Montréal
Ghayda Hassan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Sushrut Jadhav, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London
Arlene Laliberté, Ph.D., Department of Psychoeducation and Psychology, Université du Québec en Outouais
Robert Lemelson, Ph.D., Research Anthropologist, Department of Psychiatry; Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA; President, Foundation for Psychocultural Research
François Lespérance, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal; Associate CEO, Medical and Academic Affairs, University of Montreal Medical Centre
Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université Laval
Eugene Raikhel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Andrew Ryder, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, Culture and Personality Laboratory, Concordia University
Marian Shermarke, M.S.W., M.Sc., M.A., Social Worker, PRAIDA, C.L.S.C.-Côte des Neiges
Carlo Sterlin, M.D., Director, Transcultural Psychiatry Service, Hôpital Jean Talon
McGill faculty
Please see our Faculty web page for more information.
Lawrence Annable, Dip. Stat., Professor, Division of Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry
Alain Brunet, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Jacob Burack, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology
Eduardo Chachamovich, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry; Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Suparna Choudhury, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
Nancy Frasure-Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry; Senior Research Associate, Montreal Heart Institute; Invited Researcher, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Research Centre
Kia Faridi, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Guillaume Galbaud du Fort, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Researcher, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Sir Mortimer B. Davis—Jewish General Hospital; Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University Health Centre
Ian Gold, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Philosophy & Psychiatry, Departments of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Danielle Groleau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital
Jaswant Guzder, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Head of Child Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital
G. Eric Jarvis, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Cultural Consultation Service, Jewish General Hospital
Suzanne King, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., James McGill Professor; Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital
Myrna Lashley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Adjunct Researcher, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute
Eric Latimer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Marc Laporta, M.D., Director, Montreal WHO-PAHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Douglas University Institute and McGill University Health Center
Stephanie Lloyd, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Karl Looper, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital
Nancy Low, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Ann C. Macaulay, C.M., M.D., Professor, Department of Family Medicine; Director of Participatory Research at McGill, and previous Scientific Director, Kahnawake Centre for Research and Training in Diabetes Prevention
Antonia Maioni, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Political Science and Institute for Health and Social Policy
Ashok Malla, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Toby Measham, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Lucie Nadeau, M.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Duncan Pedersen, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Associate Scientific Director, International Programs, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Michel Perreault, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Amir Raz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Ellen Rosenberg, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Cécile Rousseau, M.D., M.Sc., Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Research and Training Centre, CSSS de la Montagne
Monica Ruiz-Casares, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Norbert Schmitz, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Brett Thombs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital
Ashley Wazana, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital
Morton Weinfeld, Ph.D., Chair in Ethnic Studies, Professor and Director – Canadian Ethnic Studies, Department of Sociology
Daniel Weinstock, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Institute for Health and Social Policy
Robert Whitley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Allan Young, Ph.D., Marjorie Bronfman Professor, Departments of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, and Psychiatry
For further information regarding the Use of Film in Cultural Psychiatry workshop, please go to the following link.