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Section Board

Meryam SCHOULER OCAK, Chair

Iris CALLIESS, Co-Chair

Ilaria TARRICONE, Secretary

Mission

The mission of the Section on Cultural Psychiatry is to promote the improvement of mental health services to immigrant and ethnic minority patients via the creation of a forum in which research, training, diagnosis, and treatment can be explored in a specifically European context.

The Section aims to:

1. Create a forum which brings together professionals and others with an interest in the field to explore and develop the field of cultural psychiatry in a European context
2. Promote, initiate, and carry out culturally competent research concerning the relationship between migration and mental health, ethnopsychopharmacology, psychotherapy, psychometrics, and other related areas
3. Promote the broad notion of cultural competence, particularly in the context of pre-graduate, graduate, and continuing education.
4. Stimulate recruitment into the field of cultural psychiatry and the cultural competence orientation
5. Contribute to the quality of psychiatric research and mental health treatment by the promotion of the cultural psychiatry into all facets of psychiatry and psychology in Europe.
6. Forge alliances and partnerships with other sections and national and international associations dedicated to cultural psychiatry.

Section activities

The Section organises symposia and workshops each year at the European Congress of Psychiatry. In the past it has also organised a course on treatment and diagnosis with immigrant patients. In 2010 it participated in the Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry’s annual meeting, presenting two plenary presentations and two symposia. In 2011 it organised two symposia, and, was invited by the Early Career Psychiatrist Programme to participate in a symposium entitled Relevance of transcultural psychiatry for European Early Career Psychiatrists and Trainees. At the DGPPN-Congress the Section had a symposium on Community Mental Health for Migrants in Europe. In cooperation with the German-Turkish Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Health and the Section of Transcultural Psychiatry and Migration of the DGPPN the Section had a conference on 50 years Orientation: Turkish life, illness and health in Germany.
For 2012 it will organise a symposium and CME Course at the EPA- Congress in Prague.
Furthermore, It will organise a conference on 10 years Sonnenberger Guidelines in Hannover in June, a symposium on migration in Berlin in October and, symposia at the DGPPN-Congress in Berlin in November.
The Section has also held meetings during other related psychiatry conferences. Finally, Section actively collaborates with the Euromed Network on Mental Health and Migration, the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology and the German-Turkish Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Care.