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Jones-Lavallée A, Bernard G, Taing J, Leanza Y. The State of Current Knowledge on the Cultural Formulation Interview: A Scoping Review. JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s10862-022-10009-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Lindberg LG, Carlsson J, Kristiansen M, Skammeritz S, Johansen KS. The Cultural Formulation Interview-Generating distance or alliance? A qualitative study of practice changes in Danish mental healthcare. Transcult Psychiatry 2022; 59:740-755. [PMID: 35331059 DOI: 10.1177/13634615211065617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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This article presents provider experiences with the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in Danish mental healthcare for migrant patients. Semi-structured interviews with 17 providers and 20 recorded CFI sessions were analyzed with a constructivist grounded theory approach. Based on our empirical material, we endorse the CFI's ability to facilitate working alliance and a profound and contextually situated understanding of the patient. Further, the CFI supported less-experienced providers in investigating cultural issues. Conversely, we found that CFI questions about cultural identity and background evoked notions of distance and 'othering' in the encounter. Nine providers had felt discomfort and professional insecurity when the CFI compelled them to introduce explanatory frameworks of culture in the mental health assessment. Eleven providers had experienced that the abstract nature of the questions inhibited patient responses or led to short and stereotypical descriptions, which had limited analytical value. We describe the contradictory CFI experiences of alliance versus distance at three levels: 1) at the CFI instrument level; 2) at the organizational level; and 3) at the contextual and structural level. We demonstrate benefits and pitfalls of using the CFI with migrants in Denmark, which is an example of a European healthcare context where cultural consultation is not an integrated concept in health education programs and where the notion of culture is contentious due to negative political rhetoric on multiculturalism.We suggest that the CFI should be introduced with thorough training; focus on fidelity; and supervision in the clinical application and understanding of the concept of culture.
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- Laura Glahder Lindberg
- Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, Mental Health Center Ballerup, Copenhagen University Hospital - Mental Health Services CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, Mental Health Center Ballerup, Copenhagen University Hospital - Mental Health Services CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Center for Healthy Aging, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, Mental Health Center Ballerup, Copenhagen University Hospital - Mental Health Services CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Competence Centre for Dual Diagnosis, Mental Health Center Sct Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital - Mental Health Services CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Arshad SH, Chua J, Wayne SA, Bryant JL, Al-Mateen CS. Tools to Craft a Cultural Formulation. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 2022; 31:583-601. [PMID: 36182212 DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2022.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Clinicians should strive to understand every patient from their own perspective. The authors present tools to help patients narrate their own experiences and elaborate on the context of their symptoms, allowing clinicians to appreciate the cultural influences on a patient and how that affects their symptomatology. This knowledge can then be crafted into a nuanced cultural formulation of the patient, with the goals of not only better understanding the patient's specific, intersectional context but also guiding treatment planning. As a result, the patient is evaluated in a holistic manner, and their specific needs are central in their care.
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- Sarah H Arshad
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, DCAPBS, Floor 12, 3500 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, DCAPBS, Floor 12, 3500 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA
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Strand M, Bäärnhielm S. Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment. Cult Med Psychiatry 2022; 46:846-863. [PMID: 34881417 PMCID: PMC9596502 DOI: 10.1007/s11013-021-09761-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), included in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a person-centered instrument for systematically appraising the impact of cultural factors in psychiatric assessment. A number of key areas in the future development of the CFI have been identified in order to ensure further clinical uptake. In this paper, we suggest that applying a Therapeutic Assessment (TA) approach in using the CFI-i.e., framing the interview in a way that gives primacy to its self-transformative potential by explicitly focusing on those issues that are seen as the most urgent, relevant, and meaningful by the patient-could prove helpful in alleviating patients' suffering beyond what is achieved by merely collecting relevant cultural information that may inform diagnosis and subsequent treatment interventions. The TA methodology has been designed as a collaborative approach to psychological assessment in which the assessment procedure itself is meant to induce therapeutic change. This is achieved by explicitly focusing on the particular questions and queries that patients have about themselves with respect to their mental health problems or psychosocial well-being; these questions are then allowed to guide the assessment process and the interpretation of the findings. We suggest a number of potential modifications to the related Outline for Cultural Formulation and to the CFI content that could strengthen a TA-inspired focus. With this paper, we do not claim to offer a definitive integration of the TA approach in using the CFI but hope to further the discussion of a therapeutic potential of the instrument.
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- Mattias Strand
- Transcultural Centre, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Solnavägen 4, 113 65, Stockholm, Sweden. .,Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- grid.467087.a0000 0004 0442 1056Transcultural Centre, Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Solnavägen 4, 113 65 Stockholm, Sweden ,grid.4714.60000 0004 1937 0626Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Musa GJ, Geronazzo-Alman L, Fan B, Cheslack-Postava K, Bavley R, Wicks J, Bresnahan M, Amsel L, Fiano E, Saxe G, Kummerfeld E, Ma S, Hoven CW. Neighborhood characteristics and psychiatric disorders in the aftermath of mass trauma: A representative study of New York City public school 4th-12th graders after 9/11. J Psychiatr Res 2021; 138:584-590. [PMID: 33992981 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Studies of the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and childhood/adolescent psychopathology in large samples examined one outcome only, and/or general (e.g., 'psychological distress') or aggregate (e.g., 'any anxiety disorder') measures of psychopathology. Thus, in the only representative sample of New York City public school 4th-12th graders (N = 8202) surveyed after the attacks of 9/11/2001, this study examined whether (1) indices of neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Quality, and Safety and (2) neighborhood disadvantage (defined as multidimensional combinations of SES, Quality and Safety indicators) are associated with eight psychiatric disorders: posttraumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety disorder (SAD), agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder, major depression, conduct disorder, and alcohol use disorder (AUD). (1) The odds ratios (OR) of psychiatric disorders were between 0.55 (AUD) and 1.55 (agoraphobia), in low and intermediate-low SES neighborhoods, respectively, between 0.50 (AUD) and 2.54 (agoraphobia) in low Quality neighborhoods, and between 0.52 (agoraphobia) and 0.65 (SAD) in low Safety neighborhoods. (2) In neighborhoods characterized by high disadvantage, the OR were between 0.42 (AUD) and 1.36 (SAD). This study suggests that neighborhood factors are important social determinants of childhood/adolescent psychopathology, even in the aftermath of mass trauma. At the community level, interventions on modifiable neighborhood characteristics and targeted resources allocation to high-risk contexts could have a cost-effective broad impact on children's mental health. At the individual-level, increased knowledge of the living environment during psychiatric assessment and treatment could improve mental health outcomes; for example, specific questions about neighborhood factors could be incorporated in DSM-5's Cultural Formulation Interview.
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- George J Musa
- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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Lewis-Fernández R, Aggarwal NK, Kirmayer LJ. The Cultural Formulation Interview: Progress to date and future directions. Transcult Psychiatry 2020; 57:487-496. [PMID: 32838656 DOI: 10.1177/1363461520938273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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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 treatment expectations relevant to psychiatric diagnosis and assessment. This thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry brings together articles examining the implementation and impact of the CFI in diverse settings. In this editorial introduction we discuss key areas raised by these and other studies, including: (1) the potential of the CFI for transforming current psychiatric assessment models; (2) training and implementation strategies for wider application and scale-up; and (3) refining the CFI by developing new modules and alternative protocols based on further research and clinical experience.
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- Roberto Lewis-Fernández
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University & Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Aggarwal NK, Jarvis GE, Gómez-Carrillo A, Kirmayer LJ, Lewis-Fernández R. The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5: Prospects for training, research, and clinical practice. Transcult Psychiatry 2020; 57:496-514. [PMID: 32838655 DOI: 10.1177/1363461520940481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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While social science research has demonstrated the importance of culture in shaping psychiatric illness, clinical methods for assessing the cultural dimensions of illness have not been adopted as part of routine care. Reasons for limited integration include the impression that attention to culture requires specialized skills, is only relevant to a subset of patients from unfamiliar backgrounds, and takes too much time to be useful. The DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), published in 2013, was developed to provide a simplified approach to collecting information needed for cultural assessment. It offers a 16-question interview protocol that has been field tested at sites around the world. However, little is known about how CFI implementation has affected training, health services, and clinical outcomes. This article offers a comprehensive narrative review that synthesizes peer-reviewed, published studies on CFI use. A total of 25 studies were identified, with sample sizes ranging from 1 to 460 participants. In all pilot CFI studies 960 unique subjects were enrolled, and in final CFI studies 739 were enrolled. Studies focused on how the CFI affects clinical practice; explored the CFI through research paradigms in medical communication, implementation science, and family psychiatry; and examined clinician training. In most studies, patients and clinicians reported that using the CFI improved clinical rapport. This evidence base offers an opportunity to consider implications for training, research, and clinical practice and to identify crucial areas for further research.
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Jarvis GE, Kirmayer LJ, Gómez-Carrillo A, Aggarwal NK, Lewis-Fernández R. Update on the Cultural Formulation Interview. FOCUS (AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC PUBLISHING) 2020; 18:40-46. [PMID: 32047396 PMCID: PMC7011218 DOI: 10.1176/appi.focus.20190037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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This article reviews the clinical and research literature on the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) since its publication in DSM-5. The CFI is an interview protocol designed to be used by clinicians in any setting to gather essential data to produce a cultural formulation. The CFI aims to improve culturally sensitive diagnosis and treatment by focusing clinical attention on the patient's perspective and social context. Preliminary evidence indicates that the CFI can improve clinical communication by enhancing clinician-patient rapport, allowing the clinician to obtain new, cultural data in a relatively short period, eliciting patients' perspectives on what caused their symptoms, and helping patients to become aware of their problems in more insightful ways. With practice, the CFI takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. The CFI has been evaluated internationally in the United States, Canada, Kenya, Peru, the Netherlands, India, and Mexico and generally has been found to be clinically acceptable and useful in these varied settings. Clinicians receiving as little as one hour of training on the CFI improved their ability to work with culturally diverse patients. The CFI may be more difficult to conduct with patients who have severe symptoms, including acute psychosis, suicidal behavior, aggression, and cognitive impairment. The CFI provides a simple way to begin the process of cultural assessment, and its systematic use can foster a reflective stance and promote systemic thinking in routine clinical practice about the patient's life and experience.
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- G Eric Jarvis
- Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (Jarvis, Kirmayer, Gómez-Carrillo); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández); New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández), Anxiety Disorders Clinic (Lewis-Fernández), and Hispanic Treatment Program (Lewis-Fernández), New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
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- Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (Jarvis, Kirmayer, Gómez-Carrillo); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández); New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández), Anxiety Disorders Clinic (Lewis-Fernández), and Hispanic Treatment Program (Lewis-Fernández), New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
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- Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (Jarvis, Kirmayer, Gómez-Carrillo); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández); New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández), Anxiety Disorders Clinic (Lewis-Fernández), and Hispanic Treatment Program (Lewis-Fernández), New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
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- Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (Jarvis, Kirmayer, Gómez-Carrillo); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández); New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández), Anxiety Disorders Clinic (Lewis-Fernández), and Hispanic Treatment Program (Lewis-Fernández), New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
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- Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec (Jarvis, Kirmayer, Gómez-Carrillo); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández); New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence (Aggarwal, Lewis-Fernández), Anxiety Disorders Clinic (Lewis-Fernández), and Hispanic Treatment Program (Lewis-Fernández), New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York
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