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Paying attention to culture is vital to understanding the experiences and meaning individuals place on their psychological wellbeing. Immigrant and refugee communities require culturally responsive care embedded into organizational practices to address their post-migration stressors and social inequities. Culturally responsive care requires breaking down the language barrier, providing psychoeducation and explaining the role of mental health system.

Join this webinar with Dr. Lisa Andermann and Norma Hannant, MSW, and after attending you will be able to:

• Recognize the intersection of migration, mental health, and post-migration stressors.
• Understand cultural humility, cultural safety and cultural competency in practice.
• Become familiar with cultural formulation interviews (CFI) and the explanatory model to understand an individual’s life context, their needs and meaning they ascribe to their problems to negotiate appropriate and relevant interventions and referrals.

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto (UofT) and Co-Chair of the Equity and Inclusion Council (UofT). She is also the Director of the Toronto Addis Ababa Psychiatry Program.

In addition to her work at the Mount Sinai Ethnocultural Assertive Community Treatment, Dr. Andermann is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture; and with the Northern Psychiatric Outreach Program providing outreach to remote communities on Baffin Island, Ontario. She co-edited a book entitled Refuge and Resilience: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Refugees and Forced Migrants (Springer, 2014). She is a former Board Member of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture and current Board Member with the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry.

She has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from McGill University, where she completed her medical studies, and a graduate degree in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.

Norma Hannant, MSW RSW

is a social worker at the New Beginnings Clinic in the Mood and Anxiety Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She provides mental health support for refugees and immigrants using a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, anti-oppressive lens rooted in evidence-based practices.

Norma has worked in the mental health sector for over 20 years. She has experience in hospital-based settings, community-based counselling agencies and child and family services. She has taught and coordinated mental health workshops in Mexico, Chile and Brazil on the shared care model, psychosocial rehabilitation and stigma.

She has an interest in psychosocial community approaches in working with the Latinx diaspora. Norma is currently providing psychotherapy and mental health counselling as an Interim Federal Healthcare provider to refugee claimants. She speaks fluent Spanish. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo, majoring in Spanish. Norma received her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto in 2001.

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