Transcultural child psychiatry: its history, present status and future challenges.
THE CANADIAN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY REVIEW = LA REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE DE L'ENFANT ET DE L'ADOLESCENT 2005;
14:81-84. [PMID:
19030512 PMCID:
PMC2542910]
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
To provide a historical review of transcultural child psychiatry in Canada and discuss its future mandate within traditional mental health services.
METHOD
To present a summary of some key papers and chapters in the literature which describe the history and present status of transcultural child psychiatry since its inception 30 years ago.
RESULTS
There is a virtual absence of transcultural material in the early editions of the most valued textbooks of child and adolescent psychiatry. This has only begun to change during the past 5 years. In Canada, work has centered around recently arrived immigrant and refugee children with comparatively little work being done with other minority groups.
CONCLUSION
Transcultural child psychiatry remains a profoundly understaffed subspecialty. To change this, university departments of child psychiatry should initiate the formation of groups of transculturally aware clinicians and researchers.
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