Pre-conference courses

On Sunday 13 June, six pre-conference courses are organised by top specialists in the field of transcultural psychiatry.
Each course lasts 3 hrs and an additional fee of Euro 75 is asked to cover the costs.
You can register for the courses via the online conference registration.

Please click below for more information about the contents of each course:

10:00 - 13:00 hrs:

Pre-conference course 1: Recent developments in family therapy of Maghrebian families in France
Abdessalem Yahyaoui, University of Savoie-Chambery, France & Research and Clinical Cross-cultural Psychology Center (APPM-CREFSI), France
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Pre-conference course 2: The practice of cultural consultation
Laurence J. Kirmayer, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Pre-conference course 3: Ethnography in intervention development for families impacted by migration and trauma
Steve Weine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
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13:30 - 16:30 hrs:

Pre-conference course 4: Public mental health in low- and middle-income countries
Joop de Jong, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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Pre-conference course 5: Trauma, loss and traumatic growth: Impact and intervention with major stress and trauma
Stevan E. Hobfoll, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, USA
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Pre-conference course 6: Culturally sensitive treatment of traumatized non-western populations
Devon E. Hinton, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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