Cultural Psychiatry
Section committee
TARRICONE Ilaria
, Chair
GRAEF-CALLIESS Iris Tatjana,
Co-Chair
GAMBARO Eleonora,
Secretary
Section mission
This Section's mission 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.
Section objectives
- To 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
- To promote, initiate, and carry out culturally competent research concerning the relationship between migration and mental health, ethnopsychopharmacology, psychotherapy, psychometrics, and other rela
- To promote the broad notion of cultural competence, particularly in the context of pre-graduate, graduate, and continuing education
- To stimulate recruitment into the field of cultural psychiatry and the cultural competence orientation
- To 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
- To forge alliances and partnerships with other sections and national and international associations dedicated to cultural psychiatry