Breakout Session: Diversity, Cultural Competence, and Patient Trust

Breakout Session Report

On Thursday November 19, 2008 a breakout session was held in Room B1 of the Ouaga 2000 Conference Center on the following theme: New developments in cotton ginning. The session began at 2:00 pm and ended at 3:40 pm. The meeting was well attended and the discussions were frank and direct. Four speakers were on the agenda but there were in fact three presentations, as the fourth speaker was unabl...

WaSABi 2014: Breakout Brainstorming Session Summary

A key program point of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice (WaSABi 2014) was the breakout brainstorming session, at which challenges regarding enterprise adoption of Semantic Web technologies were discussed, and potential solutions to some of those challenges described. The requested output of this session was for each group of 5 people to produc...

Religious competence as cultural competence

Definitions of cultural competence often refer to the need to be aware and attentive to the religious and spiritual needs and orientations of patients. However, the institution of psychiatry maintains an ambivalent attitude to the incorporation of religion and spirituality into psychiatric practice. This is despite the fact that many patients, especially those from underserved and underprivileg...

Information Integration Research: Summary of NSF IDM Workshop Breakout Session

Culture, Psychiatry and Cultural Competence

Why the study of culture and its clinical application is important in mental health training and service? Mental health and illness is a set of subjective experience and a social process and thus involves a practice of culture-congruent care. Series of anthropological, sociological and cross-cultural research has clearly demonstrated a very strong ground in favour of this contention. An individ...