24th Annual Summer Program
April 30 to August 24, 2018
General information
Registration information
Courses and workshops
- Cultural Psychiatry
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
- Research Methods in Social and Cultural Psychiatry
- Working with Culture
- The McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)
- Global Mental Health Research
- Critical Neuroscience
- Social and Cultural Neuroscience
- Indigenous Mental Health Research
Guest faculty
McGill faculty
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, and researchers in psychiatry, psychology, and other mental health disciplines
- graduate students in health and social sciences
- physicians, psychologists, social workers, and other 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
Fax: 514-398-3282
Email: tc.psych [at] mcgill.ca
Courses
PSYT711 Cultural Psychiatry
L. Kirmayer & Faculty (3 academic credits)
This course surveys recent theory and research on the interaction of culture and psychiatric disorders. Topics to be covered include: history of cultural psychiatry; cross-national 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 cross-cultural research; models of mental health care for multicultural societies; globalization and the future of cultural psychiatry.
Prerequisites: Courses in abnormal psychology, psychiatry or medical anthropology, and permission of the instructor.
Text: Course readings will be available in paper form and online at the McGill Bookstore
Date: May 1-24, 2018 (4 weeks) T·TH 413:30-18:00
Location: TBD
PSYT713 Psychiatric Epidemiology
G. Galbaud du Fort, X. Mei & Faculty (3 academic credits)
This course offers an overview of the application of epidemiology in the field of psychiatry. Topics include: history of psychiatric epidemiology; epidemiologic research methods in psychiatry (in addition to basic methods, specific lectures will cover meta-analysis, family studies, assessment of needs for care, prevention) ; study of treatment-seeking, pathways to care, and use of services; epidemiology of specific diagnoses (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, somatization); research on risk factors (e.g., developmental impact of stress in pregnant women, childhood adversity and mood disorders, cannabis and psychosis); interaction between mental and physical disorders (e.g., depression and diabetes) ; introduction to evaluation of mental health services and programs (e.g., supported employment for people with severe mental illness).
Prerequisites: introductory courses in epidemiology and biostatistics, and permission of the instructor.
Text: Course readings will be available in paper form and online at the McGill Bookstore; presentations will be available online.
Date: April 30-May 25, 2018 (4 weeks) M·W·F4 13:30-16:45
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West
PSYT633 Research Methods in Social and Cultural Psychiatry
R. Whitley, A. Ryder & Faculty
This workshop will introduce participants to research methods in cultural and social psychiatry in a stepwise manner. The course consists of three modules: (1) introduction to qualitative research; (2) introduction to quantitative research; and (3) introduction to mixed-methods studies. Modules 1 and 2 will focus on methodologies, study design, execution, analysis and dissemination. In Module 3, students will learn how and when to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches in a mixed-method study. Ample time will be given for questions and discussion of participants’ projects.
Text: Course readings will be available in paper form and online at the McGill bookstore
Date: April 30-May 25, 2018 (4 weeks) M·W·F49:00-12:30
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West
Workshops
Working with Culture: Clinical Methods in Cultural Psychiatry
J. Guzder & C. Rousseau
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 online
Date: May 1-24, 2018 (4 weeks) T·Th4 09:00-12:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West
The McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI)
D. Groleau
This workshop will provide an introduction to the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI), a semi-structured 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-on-one interviews and learn ways to code and analyze qualitative data produced with the MINI.
Text: Course readings will be available online.
Date: June 4, 5 & 6, 2018 (12 hours)4 M·13:30-16:30, T·09:00-16:30, W·09:00-12:30
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West
Global Mental Health Research
M. Ruiz-Casares & Faculty
This workshop 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. This 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 workshop aims to provide 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 format includes lectures, panel presentations, case studies and plenary discussions of readings by faculty and students, supplemented by video documentaries and films.
Text: Readings will be available online.
Date: May 28-31, 2018 (24 hours) M·T·W·TH4 09:00-17:00
Location: Room138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West.
Critical Neuroscience
S. Choudhury & Faculty
This workshop provides an overview of current controversies surrounding cognitive neuroscience and the implications of recent advances in research for psychiatry, education, bioethics, and health policy. It will present the interdisciplinary project of critical neuroscience as a framework and set of tools with which to critically analyze interpretations of neuroscience data in the academic literature, their representation in popular domains and more broadly, the growth of neurocultures since the Decade of the Brain. This course will problematize and consider alternatives to neurobiological reductionism in psychiatry, neuroethics, cultural neuroscience and neuropolicy, attending to the models, metaphors and political contexts of mainstream brain research. It will also explore various avenues for engagement between neuroscience, social science and humanities. Sessions will be devoted to: critical methods; methodological problems in neuroscience; cultural neuroscience, social determinants of health; psychiatry, neuroeducation; mindfulness; and neuroethics.
Text: Choudhury, S. & Slaby, J. (Eds). (2012). Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience, New York: Wiley.
Date: June 11-14, 2018 (24 hours) M•T·W·Th4 09:00-17:00
Location: Room 138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West
Social and Cultural Neuroscience
L. Kirmayer, S. Kitayama, M. Meaney, C. Worthman & Guest Faculty
Co-sponsored by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research (www.thefpr.org) and the McGill Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives Program (www.mcgill.ca/hbhl). This workshop will provide an overview of core topics and recent developments in social, and cultural neuroscience research in order to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration in global mental health. After an introduction to cognitive, social, and cultural neuroscience, the workshop will focus on the potential and limits of methods that can be used to measure epigenetic, neuroendocrine, and neurocognitive processes in laboratory and field settings. We will discuss the inter-relationships of these processes and how to map them onto phenomenological, ethnographic, and ecological variables through technologies including remote sensing techniques that capture health-relevant aspects of sociocultural contexts in situ. Participants will also have the opportunity to present their own research projects for discussion with faculty.
Date: August 13-17, 2018 (30 hours) M•T·W·Th·F 4 09:00-17:00
Location: Room138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West &
Montreal Neurological Institute
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; social, historical and transgenerational determinants of mental health; the role of indigenous identity in mental health, resilience and well-being; suicide prevention and mental health promotion; participatory research methods; 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.
Course readings will be available online
Date: August 20-23, 2018 (24 hours) M•T·W·Th4 09:00-17:00
Location: Room138, Irving Ludmer Building, 1033 Pine Ave. West
Guest Faculty
Eleanor Acer, Senior Director for Refugee Protection, Human Rights First
Dominic Aitken, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Efrat Arbel, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia Allard School of Law.
Idil Atak, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Criminal Justice and Criminology
Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor, Harvard University, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Amy Bombay, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Nursing and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University
Mary Bosworth, Professor, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Gregory Brass, PhD (Cand), Assistant Executive Director, Aanischaaukamikw, Cree Cultural Institute, Oujé-Bougoumou, Québec
Andrew Crosby, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Stéphane Dandeneau, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec
à Montréal
Daniela DeBono, Researcher, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies
Francesca Esposito, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Andriani Fili, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Christopher Fletcher,
Michael Flynn, Global Detention Project, Executive Director
Sarah Fraser, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychoeducation, Université de Montréal
Alice Gerlach, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Hanna Gros, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Jenny Jeanes, Coordinator, Detention Program, Action Réfugiés Montréal
Blerina Kellezi, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Shinobu Kitayama, PhD, Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology; Director of the Culture & Cognition Program, University of Michigan
Sarah Mares, Lecturer, University of New South Wales, School of Psychiatry
Samer Muscati, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Delphine Nakache, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa, Human Rights Research and Education Centre
Maayan Ravid, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Law Faculty, Centre for Criminology
Andrew Ryder, PhD, Associate Professor & Director, Culture and Personality Laboratory, Concordia University
Suzanne Stewart, PhD, CPsych, Associate Professor of Indigenous Healing in Counseling Psychology, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Caroline Tait, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan
Carol Worthman, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
McGill Faculty
Anne Andermann, MD, DPhil, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Lawrence Annable, Dip. Stat., Professor, Division of Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry
Alain Brunet, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Jacob Burack, PhD, Professor, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology
François Bourque, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Eduardo Chachamovich, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Researcher, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Suparna Choudhury, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Janet Cleveland, LLB, PhD, Researcher, SHERPA Research Centre, CIUSSS Centre-Ouest de l’Ile-de-Montréal
Ellen Corin, PhD, Associate Professor, Emerita, Department of Psychiatry
François Crépeau, Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, McGill University
Myriam Denov, PhD, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Armed Conflict, School of Social Work
Frank Elgar, PhD, Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Social Inequalities in Child Health, Department of Psychiatry & Institute of Health & Social Policy
Kia Faridi, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Guillaume Galbaud du Fort, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Jewish General Hospital
Kathryn Gill, PhD, Associate Professor & Director of Research, Addictions Unit, MUHC
Ian Gold, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Danielle Groleau, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital
Jaswant Guzder, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Head of Child Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital
Srividya Iyer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
G. Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Cultural Consultation Service, Jewish General Hospital
Suzanne King, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC, James McGill Professor; Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital
Rachel Kronick, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Children Psychiatry & Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry
Marc Laporta, MD, Director, Montreal WHO-PAHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Douglas University Institute and McGill University Health Center
Myrna Lashley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Eric Latimer, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Raphael Lencucha, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
Karl Looper, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Jewish General Hospital
Nancy Low, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Ashok Malla, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Canada Research Chair in Early Psychosis, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Michael Meaney, PhD, FRSC, James McGill Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Dpoartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery; Co-Scientific Director, Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health; Director, Sackler Centre for Epigenetics & Psychobiology, Douglas Institute.
Toby Measham, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Xiangfei Meng, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Lucie Nadeau, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Michel Perreault, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre
Amir Raz, PhD, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, Department of Psychiatry
Cécile Rousseau, MD, MSc, Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Research and Training Centre, CSSS de la Montagne
Monica Ruiz-Casares, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Jai Shah, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Program for Prevention and Early Intervention in Psychosis, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Norbert Schmitz, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Researcher, Psychosocial Research Division, Douglas Hospital Research Centre
Kazue Takamura, Lecturer, McGill University, International Development Studies
Brett Thombs, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry; Research Associate, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital
Samuel Veissière, PhD, Assistant Professor, Culture, Mind and Brain Program, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Ashley Wazana, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital
Daniel Weinstock, DPhil, James McGill Professor & Director, Institute for Health and Social Policy
Denis Wendt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology
Robert Whitley, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Allan Young, PhD, Marjorie Bronfman Professor, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Anthropology, and Psychiatry