Psychiatric practice faces many challenges in the first quarter of 21 st century. Society has
transformed as have training requirements and patient expectations, underlining an urgent …

Background Depression is a common mental health problem causing significant disability
globally, including in Canada. Prevalence estimates for depression within Black …

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 …

This special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry on training in cultural psychiatry discusses
translating research into improvements in mental health care for refugees and migrants. This …

Introduction Telehealth has become increasingly routine within healthcare and has potential
to reduce barriers to care, including for Indigenous populations. However, it is crucial for …

Recent events in Canada, such as the discovery of graves of Indigenous children at former
residential schools and the emergence of Black Lives Matter, have highlighted inequities …

This commentary responds to current events that have highlighted the ways that systemic
racism affects a wide variety of health outcomes. We specifically discuss how systemic …

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a prevalent and highly disabling condition,
characterized by a range of phenotypic expressions, potentially associated with geo-cultural …

Background Clinicians working in mental health in-patient settings may have to use
nasogastric tube feeding under physical restraint to reverse the life-threatening …

Context Transcultural skills are especially useful for those involved in the perinatal period,
when parents and babies must adapt to one another in a setting of migration a long a focus …