Cultural Psychiatry

H. Steven Moffic, MD, interviews Neil Krishan Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA, DFAPA, on his new book and the concept of peacemaking.

In advance of the June 4 FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on MDMA-assisted therapy, we sat down with Alejandra Alva, MD, to get his first impressions.

From populations to patients.

Psychiatrists may wish to engage the primary care team to conduct a comprehensive case formulation that takes cultural factors into account.

In honor of Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we had a discussion on how best to support AAPI youth and their families.

How can consulting psychiatrists help the team provide culturally appropriate care for diverse patient populations?

When we say “Happy New Year,” how can we ensure that wish leads to genuine happiness for others?

How can you learn from, appreciate, and grieve for other cultures?

Are you ready to choose something new?

Interventions that rely solely on change lack balance. This is especially true when working with minoritized individuals who have very real and justified pain stemming from systemic problems.

“The more one is able to leave one’s cultural home, the more easily is one able to judge it…”

"If we ignore or do not successfully address these future risks, we may need more than luck to avoid these looming disasters."

From new FDA treatment approvals to choosing the right levels of care in crisis stabilization units, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

Who is influencing matters of environment and climate change?

Work with compassion to try to prevent the transmission of intergenerational trauma.

What do our ethnocultural identities mean for each of us and for our patients?

Should we tell the truth?

Art is embracing the world… is psychiatry?

Let’s talk finances…

“It is of the utmost importance to provide culturally competent forensic psychiatric services that are better suited to the needs of the African American community.”

“The contributions of Black psychiatrists are essential for us achieving the work, achieving our goals, and really leaning into what we find to be our ‘why’ for why we do this work.”

How are you celebrating Mardi Gras?

“We are not exempt from these diseases. We have to speak up.”

In honor of Black History Month, Psychiatric Times™ highlights the contributions of Black clinicians to the field of psychiatry, as well as issues that continue to impact this underrepresented community.

How can you better provide care for American Indians and Alaska Natives?

This major medical organization is making an effort towards changing their culture. Here’s why more of us need to emulate these actions.

Can religion provide boundaries that extend beyond those of clinical psychiatry?

All mental health clinicians must now develop skills in cultural competence to avoid perpetuating disparities in health outcomes for BIPOC individuals with serious mental illnesses.

Sociocultural factors have been shown to impact both the presentation and course of schizophrenia/psychosis. Learn more here.