Joint Day

Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture + Hong Fook Mental Health Association

Friday, April 12

All times are in EDT

You may attend any sessions, regardless of which organization you registered through.

8:00am - 5:00pm

Registration (Outside Crystal Ballroom)

8:00 - 9:30am

Continental Breakfast (Outside Crystal Ballroom)

8:30 - 9:00am

Welcome Remarks for Joint Day

(Crystal Ballroom)

Alan Teo, MD, MS, SSPC President & Oregon Health & Science University

Andrew Chung, MBA, MSc, Executive Director, Hong Fook Mental Health Association

Kenneth Fung (he/him), MD, FRCPC, MSc, DFAPA, DFCPA, Toronto Western Hospital; University of Toronto

9:00 - 10:15am

Plenary: Cultural Psychiatry- Reflective Insights, Emerging Trends, & Future Directions

[Crystal Ballroom]

Francis Lu (he/him), MD, University of California, Davis

James Boehnlein (he/him), M.D., M.Sc., Oregon Health & Science University

Hung-Tat (Ted) Lo (he/him), MD, FRCPC, Asian Community Psychiatric Clinic

Josephine Pui-Hing Wong (she/her), RN, PhD, Toronto Metropolitan University

10:15 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 11:45

Peer-driven Means of Providing Culturally Appropriate Mental Health Care

[Kensington]

Eleni Tsoutsias (she/her), HBA, MPA, Addictions and Mental Health Ontario

Hilary Leung (she/her), HBA, Addictions and Mental Health Ontario

Simone Arbour (she/her), PhD, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences

Erica Wan(she/her),PhD, RP, RSW, Hong Fook Mental Health Association

ACT for Caregivers: A Celebration of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)

[Windsor-B]

Kenneth Fung (he/him), MD, FRCPC, MSc, DFAPA, DFCPA, Toronto Western Hospital; University of Toronto

Tina Gandhi (she/her), MSW, RSW, Surrey Place

Ullanda Niel, MD, CCFP, Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities

Dorothee Chopamba, RSW, RP, Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities

Soong Huh, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Aurora

Emma Lim, RP, Toronto Mindfulness Psychotherapy Clinic

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Issues Pertaining to Senior Mental Health Care

[Windsor-A]

Alan Fung (he/him), MD, ScD, FRCPC, DFAPA, Sinai Health  

Cindy Grief (she/her), MD, MSc, FRCPC, Baycrest Health Sciences 

Linda Mah (she/her), MD, MHS, FRCPC, Baycrest Health Sciences 

Maria Choi (she/her), BSW (Hons.), MHSc, RSW, Sinai Health

Paper Session (SSPC): Exploring Psychosis Across Cultures: Insights from Asian Diasporas

(Windsor-C)

  • Understanding psychosis in Asian diasporas (Christina Bomnae Babusci, MSS)

  • Sociodemographic and clinical predictors of internalized stigma among Indonesian individuals with psychosis (Ria Dwi Agustina, MSC, McGill University)

  • Unlearning Cultural Beliefs of Pharmacological Intervention in Mental Health: The Stories of Emerging Adults in India (Yarshna Sharma, BA, M.Sc., OGS, Toronto Metropolitan University)

Paper Session (SSPC): Voices of Inclusivity and Cultural Understanding: Insights on Gender Affirmation, Sexual Orientation Disclosure, and Sociopolitical Movements in Mental Health

(Belgravia)

  • Centring the expertise of trans and nonbinary people: Training mental health professionals about gender affirmation and inclusivity through case studies (Sofia I. Melendez Ron, PhD Student, MA, MEd, BSc(Hons),Toronto Metropolitan University; Bee Goldgruber, Toronto Metropolitan University)

  • A Qualitative Exploration and Preliminary Model of Sexual Orientation Disclosure Among Gay Chinese/Chinese American Male Emerging Adults (A. Ning Zhou, MD (he/him), San Francisco Department of Public Health; University of California, San Francisco)

  • MAGA as a Millenarian Movement: What this would be for Psychiatry and Communities (Richard Lawrence (Larry) Merkel, Jr., MD, PhD, University of Virginia)

11:50 - 12:50

Annual Meeting Assembly and Awards (Lunch Included)

[Crystal Ballroom]

Join your colleagues while enjoying a delicious Mediterranean lunch buffet! 

1:00 - 2:15

Effecting Change within a Large System: Our Experience

[Belgravia]

Denyse Brushett (she/her), MSW RSW, Scarborough Health Network

Emily Crocker (she/her), MSW RSW, Scarborough Health Network

Interconnected All Along – Collaborative Action as the Core of Hong Fook

[Windsor-A]

Hung-Tat (Ted) Lo (he/him), MD, FRCPC, Asian Community Psychiatric Clinic

Raymond C.Y.Chung (he/him), MSW

Kenneth Fung (he/him), MD, FRCPC, MSc, DFAPA, DFCPA, Toronto Western Hospital; University of Toronto

Kennes Lin (she/her), MSW, Hong Fook Mental Health Association

Equity in Action: CMHA Toronto's Innovative Approaches to Tailoring Needs-based mental health support for Immigrant and Refugee Communities

[Windsor-B]

Marwa Ahmed (she/her), BASc, MA, CMHA Toronto

Hsain Al-Shihabi (he/him), M.A Ed, CMHA Toronto

Malaz Adam (she/her), CMHA Toronto

De'Janna Mignott (she/her), CMHA Toronto

Symposium (SSPC): Moral Injury as seen in Veterans, People from Appalachia, and Indigenous People in Vancouver

[Windsor-C]

  • Religious, Spiritual, or Moral Problems: A Proposed Z Code for DSM-5-TR (Francis Lu, MD, UC Davis)

  • Moral Injury Among Combat Veterans (James Boehnlein, MD, Oregon Health & Sciences University)

  • Moral Injury at the Cultural Level: Appalachia and the “Diseases of Despair” (James L. Griffith, MD, MS, George Washington University)

  • Moral Injury in Vancouver in Indigenous Populations (Jaswant Guzder, MD, McGill University)

Work in Progress Session (SSPC): Voices from the Margins: Exploring Diversity in Mental Health Experiences

[Kensington)

  • Understanding the Social Worlds of Urban Inuit Experiencing Houselessness (Nmesoma Nweze, BSc, McGill University)

  • Curricular co-construction: collaborating to enhance child and adolescent psychiatry training in equity, diversity, and inclusion principles (Nikhita Singhal, MD, University of Toronto)

  • Expanding concepts of experiences medically called “psychosis” for immigrant communities (Shea Hazarian, MPH(c), San Francisco State University & Supriya Misra, ScD, San Francisco State University)

2:15 - 2:30

Break

2:30 - 3:45

BIPOC Youth Mental Health Initiatives: Process and Impact

[Windsor-A]

Cherry Cheung, (she/her), BA/RSW, Hong Fook Mental Health Association 

Hannah Xu, (she/her), MPH, Hong Fook Mental Health Association

Mardi Daley, (any), CAMH 

Claire Perry, (she/her), CAMH

Ashell Campbell, (she/her), LOFT Community Services

Amy Mathew, (she/her), LOFT Community Services

Emerging Community Responses for Transgender and Gender Diverse People Experiencing Homelessness

[Belgravia]

Brianna Franco (she/her/they/them), LOFT Community Services 

Martin Bryan (he/her/them), LOFT Community Services

Vee Gandhi (she/her), The 519

Robert Frederick (he/him), The 519

Workshop (SSPC): Spirituality and Psychiatry: Clinical Practices that Harm and Heal

[Windsor-B]

Lisa Andermann, MD, MPhil, University of Toronto

Jaswant Guzder, MD, McGill University

Eric Jarvis, MD, McGill University

Azaad Kassam, MD, University of Ottawa

Kenneth Fung (he/him), MD, FRCPC, MSc, DFAPA, DFCPA, Toronto Western Hospital; University of Toronto

Workshop (SSPC): Facilitating a community of practice for first-line workers in mental health in Indigenous contexts: opportunities and challenges within the Atautsikut project in Nunavik

[Windsor-C]

Lucie Nadeau, MD, MSc, McGill University

Dominique Gaulin, MSc, PhD Candidate, Université de Montréal

Janique Johnson-Lafleur, PhD, Institut universitaire Sherpa, McGill University 

Mary Paningajak

Paper Session: Insider Perspectives on Accessing, Receiving, and Delivering Mental Health Care in Cross-Cultural Contexts

[Kensington]

  • At the Intersections of Lived Experience: Insights from a community shelter for Socially Abandoned People with HIV/AIDS and psychiatric disorders. (Gaurav Datta, PhD, University of North Dakota)

  • Resilience, emotional wellbeing, and experiences of healthcare among Afghan refugee and asylee women in Northern Virginia (Marwah Shuaib, BA, George Washington University; James L. Griffith, MD, MS, George Washington University)

  • Intellectual Disability Support: Traditional Healers’ Views on Collaboration with Western-Trained Healthcare Practitioners (Simthandile Lisakhanya Witbooi, BA, BSocSci(Hons.), University of Cape Town; Monique Ashtevana Os, BSocSci, University of Cape Town)

3:45 - 4:00

Break

4:00 - 5:30

A multidisciplinary panel on EDI considerations in the intersection between spirituality/religion and mental health care across diverse settings

[Windsor-A]

Alan Fung (he/him), MD, ScD, FRCPC, DFAPA

Adrianne Sequeira (she/her), DMin, RP, RMFT, RN, Certified Psychoanalyst

Tat-Ying Wong (he/him), MD, MTS, MDiv, RMFT

Yusra Ahmad (she/her), MD, FRCPC

Visiting Auntie’s House: weaving mental wellbeing into the fabric of care

[Windsor-B]

Cheryllee Bourgeois, Midwife Auntie, Call Auntie Clinic

Krysta Williams, Community Health Auntie, Call Auntie Clinic

Trainee Case Consultation Session

[Windsor-C]

James L. Griffith, MD, MS, George Washington University
Kenneth Fung (he/him), MD, FRCPC, MSc, DFAPA, DFCPA, Toronto Western Hospital; University of Toronto
Anna Fiskin, MD, MS, UCSF

Symposium (SSPC): Uniting to Promote Equity: Tackling Mental Health Disparities Through Stakeholder-Led Initiatives with Ethnoracially Minoritized Service Users

[Crystal Ballroom]

  • Advancing Racial Equity in Early Intervention Services for Psychosis: Perspectives of Participants, Family Members, and Providers of Color on Addressing Racism & Discrimination (Ana Stefancic, PhD, Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute)

  • Patients as Partners: Co-Creating Tools to Promote Culturally Responsive Shared Decision Making Among Young People of Color Receiving Coordinated Specialty Care (Elaina Montague, PhD, Zucker Hillside Hospital)

  • Life is Precious: Culturally-Responsive Interventions for Latina Adolescents at Risk of Suicide (Daniela Tuda, MSW, Washington University in St. Louis & New York State Psychiatric Institute)

Paper Session: Building mental health capacity and social connectedness in Nepal using decolonized, interdisciplinary approaches

[Kensington]

  • Social connectedness experiences of mothers during the postpartum period in Nepal (Christina Juan, MSc, DrPH(c), George Washington University)

  • Establishing and Evaluating a Decolonized Capacity Building Efforts in Mental Health Research in Nepal (Binita Acharya, BPH, MPGD, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization – TPO Nepal)

5:30 - 6:45

Poster Session and Reception

[Crystal Foyer]

  • Diversity issues in clinical supervision: supervisors’ multicultural personality profiles, Marianne Couillard Larocque

  • Does Cultural Interpretation of Empowerment Matter in Mental Health Promotion? Insights from the Linking Hearts Project, Isabella Huang

  • What innovative practices and processes are used to deliver psychosocial care in India? A qualitative case study of three non-profit community mental health organisations, Sumeet Jain

  • Putting cultural difference in its place: Barriers to access to health services for parents of children with intellectual disability in an urban African setting, Siyabulela Mkabile

  • A systematic review of the perinatal psychosocial needs of migrant and culturally diverse mothers who have experienced trauma, Mandy Yufei Wu

  • Cultural adaptations of evidence-based mental health interventions for young people 12 to 25: at the intersection of cultural and development, Marion Audet

  • A methodology to develop cultural self-awareness for students in psychology, a way to enhance patient care, Nolwenn Gonzalez

  • Comparative Analysis of Attitudes toward Mental Health Services and Behaviors: Focusing on Asian College Students, Jenn Lee

  • Broadening the use of the Engagement Interview Protocol (EIP) to Chinese Mental Health patients with Mood, Anxiety and Psychotic disorders, a case series study, Shuyi Zhai

  • Discrimination and support for violent radicalization through depressive symptoms: a moderated mediation of financial difficulties, Mohammed Akhtar

  • Conducting a national needs assessment to develop the Friends/Family of Individuals at Risk of Suicide Training (FIRST) Program, Amanda Ceniti

  • Forgotten Allies: Understanding the Unique Challenges of Sibling and Spouse Caregivers of Patients with First Episode Psychosis, Teri Clark

  • Evaluation of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training to Improve Law Enforcement Engagement with Persons with Mental Health Conditions in Liberia: A mixed-method study, Wilfred Gwaikolo

  • Mental Health Symptom Associations With COVID-19 Testing And Vaccination Among Urban American Indian And Alaska Native People, Cole Haskins

  • Understanding attitudes toward mental health and barriers to seeking mental health treatment among Asian American Christian adults, John Lim

  • Perinatal Mental Health and Parenting Practices in Conflict-Affected Settings: A Scoping Review, Katherine McGuire

  • CHATogether (Compassionate Home, Action Together) as a community-based intervention for cultivating safe spaces in addressing Asian American mental health needs, Elaine Shen

  • Understanding Early Psychosis and Stigma in Chinese Canadian Patients and Their Families, Ting Wang

  • Reconnecting Mind-Breath-Body: Using Vinyasa Krama Yoga with Psychiatric Inpatients, Tai West

  • Self-perceived problems within community-based organizations in NYC enrolled in RECOUP-NY, Eliza Yass

  • Breaking the silence of teen suicides: A student-run TEDx Salon in school-based community, Yoyo Zhang, Richard Zhang

  • Failings in the Treatment of Women’s Mental Illness: An Ongoing History, Isabelle Avola

7:00 - 8:30

Board Meeting (for SSPC Board of Directors only)