Ethnopsychiatric Approach to Immigration and Mental Health
Bibliographic record
Abstract
SUMMARY With the coming of immigrants and refugees, the current demographic profile of the Province of Québec has become increasingly multiethnic (MRCI, 2000). To facilitate adaptation and integration, the government has paid particular attention to promoting strategies aimed at access to social and medical services since 1980 (MSSS, 1998). Adaptation and integration can both be sources of stress and internal conflict that can weaken and render immigrants psychologically vulnerable. Immigrants from non-Western societies, coping with mental problems, often require a know-how unfamiliar to caregivers. Certain social caregivers have adopted the ethnopsychiatric approach, based on the difficulties arising from the therapeutic care of immigrants and inspired by the works of Nathan (1979). Ethnopsychiatry is an investigatory and in-depth exploration tool that clarifies the cultural dynamic of immigrants. Within this approach, intervention is composed of a set of theoretical and contextual elements, which explains its richness and complexity. Its framework is based on an intervention team composed of therapists from various cultural and training backgrounds, including social workers. The use of native language is desired to facilitate expression and understanding of the facts. The purpose of this article is to describe the approach used at Hôpital Jean Talon, a pioneer in its application, and to enhance caregivers' sensitivity towards implementing appropriate strategies as well as developing techniques adapted to very specific situations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".