This is Session 2 of our Cultural Formulation Interview Series. The page for the series can be found by clicking here.
Session 2: Personalized Cultural Assessment through the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) (November 17, 2022)
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MT / 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. CT
This presentation introduces clinicians from all professional backgrounds to the concept of person-centered care and how the Cultural Formulation Interview can help them completed a personalized cultural assessment. It defines person-centered care. It goes through the underlying theories of the CFI to show how a person-centered assessment avoids stereotyping patients or assuming that group traits are valid for the person in front of us. It closes by showing how information elicited through the CFI can be used to personalize diagnostic assessment and treatment planning.
Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Dr. Neil Krishan Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has been a consultant to the DSM-5 Cross-Cultural Issues Subgroup for over a decade and managed the international field trial for the CFI that took place in 6 countries and enrolled 75 clinicians with 321 patients. His work on the CFI has been funded through the American Psychiatric Association, National Institute of Mental Health, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
