Background This Commission addresses several priority areas for psychiatry over the next
decade, and into the 21st century. These represent challenges and opportunities for the …

Despite the greatly increased numbers of migrants and refugees worldwide in recent years,
insufficient attention has been paid to addressing their health needs. While a variety of …

In recent years, cultural competence has become a popular term for a variety of strategies to
address the challenge of cultural diversity in mental health services. This issue of …

The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is a product of the arduous process that resulted in
publication of the DSM-5, and only one book—DSM-5 Handbook of the Cultural Formulation …

The Outline for Cultural Formulation (OCF) introduced with DSM-IV provided a framework for
clinicians to organize cultural information relevant to diagnostic assessment and treatment …

Indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees and racialized groups, as well as some long-
established ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious communities, experience inequities in …

The stress of migration as well as social factors and changes related to the receiving society
may lead to the manifestation of psychiatric disorders in vulnerable individuals after …

Intimate partner violence (IPV; also known as domestic violence) refers to behaviour by an
intimate partner or ex-partner that can cause or causes physical, sexual or psychological …

Background: The aspects of cultural identity and its impact on obsessive-compulsive
disorder (OCD) have been understudied. There are different opinions, ranging from the idea …

While much literature documents the mental health needs of young people from refugee
backgrounds, and the barriers they face in accessing mental health services, researchers …