The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI): A Collaborative Storytelling Approach to Clinical Care

Published:
March 15, 2022

The South Southwest MHTTC presents: The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI). CFI provides the opportunity of a clinical storytelling process between the client and the provider where cultural humility centers the understanding of mental health. Join us on this four sessions webinar series where we will bring the creators and developers of this Evidence Based Practice together to discuss and share insights, resources and recommendations on how to use the principles of the CFI while working with adults, children, adolescents and families. First two sessions are framed on a general overview of the CFI, the second two sessions will focus on a more clinical application for different populations.

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Session Details and Key Dates 

Session 1: The Value of Person-Centered Cultural Assessment in Clinical Practice 

Thursday, April 7th from 10am-11:30am CST 
Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, MD & Dr. Neil Krishan Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA
Harvard University / New York State Psychiatric Institute

This presentation will describe the role  of  culture in  the experience of and presentation of mental  health  problems  by  individuals  seeking  care  and  in  assessments  and  treatments  offered  by providers.  The  value  of  a  person-centered  cultural  assessment  will  be  presented,  focusing  on  cultural concepts of distress, social determinants of mental health, and treatment planning and engagement. The Cultural   Formulation   Interview   will   be   introduced,   a   standardized   method   for   person-centered assessment that appeared in DSM-5. 

 

Session 2: The Core Cultural Formulation Interview: Development, Research, and Implementation 

Thursday, April 14th from 10am-11:30am CST 
Dr. Neil Krishan Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA & Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, MD
New York State Psychiatric Institute / Harvard University

This presentation describes the process that the DSM-5 Cross-Cultural Issues Subgroup followed to develop the core Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI). It summarizes research evidence since the publication of the DSM-5 in 2013. It also offers recommendations for clinicians to implement the CFI with adults in their practice settings.

 

Session 3: Using the Cultural Formulation Interview with Children and Adolescents 

Wednesday, April 20th from 10am-11:30am CST 
Dr. Martin LaRoche, PhD
Harvard University. Boston Children's Hospital at Martha Eliot.

In this talk, clinical suggestion to use the CFI to assess and engage in a culturally competent manner with children and adolescents will be presented. 

 

Session 4: Working with Families with the Cultural Formulation Interview

Friday, April 29th from 10am-11:30am CST 
Dr. Cécile Rousseau, MD.
Professor of Social and Cultural Psychiatry. McGill University. Canada.

This session will describe the usefulness of the CFI with families, integrate this approach in assessments of families and reflect on the complexity of cultural formulation with families.

 


Speakers 

Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, MD  | Sessions 1 & 2

Roberto Lewis-Fernandez

Dr. Lewis-Fernández is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, Director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence and the Hispanic Treatment Program, and Co-Director of the Anxiety Disorder Clinic, at NYS Psychiatric Institute. His research develops culturally valid interventions and instruments to enhance patient engagement, reduce misdiagnosis, and help overcome disparities in the care of underserved cultural groups. He led the development of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview, a standardized cultural assessment protocol. He has been PI or co-Investigator of 25 National Institutes of Health-funded studies and other research, and published over 225 articles, chapters, and books. He is President of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, vice-president of the American Psychopathological Association, chair of the DSM Review Committee for Internalizing Disorders and the DSM-5-TR Culture-Related Issues Review Committee, and co-chair of the ICD-11 Working Group on Culture-Related Issues.

 

 

Dr. Neil Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA  | Sessions 1 & 2

Dr. Neil

 

Dr. Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He conducts research at the intersection of cultural psychiatry and psychiatric anthropology. His work has been funded by the American Psychiatric Association, National Institute of Health, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

 

 

 

 

 

 Dr. Martin J. La Roche, PhD | Session 3

Dr. Neil

 

Dr. La Roche has been Director of Mental Health Training at the Boston Children’s Hospital at Martha Eliot, which is the oldest standing community health center in the country for the last 26 years. He is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital and specializes in the development of culturally competent psychotherapeutic and assessment strategies. Dr. La Roche has over 100 peer reviewed publications/presentations on cultural competent treatments with ethnic minorities and has been Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on many research projects. Dr. La Roche is also the author of two books “Cultural Psychotherapy: Theory, Methods, and Practice” and “Towards a Global and Cultural Psychotherapy: Theoretical Foundations and Clinical Implications.” In addition, he has received many research/academic awards such as the Harvard Bridge Award, The Milton Award and was Selected Outstanding Committee Chairperson of the Year by the Massachusetts Psychological Association.

 

 

 Dr. Cécile Rousseau, MD   | Session 4

Dr. Cécile Rousseau, MD.

 

Dr. Rousseau is professor of the Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry at McGill University. She received her training in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Sherbrooke, Université de Montreal and McGill. She has worked extensively with immigrant and refugee communities, developing specific school-based interventions and leading policy-oriented research. Presently her research focuses on intervention and prevention programs to address violent radicalization. During the COVID-19 pandemic she led a wide community intervention program and conducted a number of research projects on the mental health consequences of this context on Canadian communities.

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