Annual Meetings Archive

The SSPC Annual Meeting brings together scholars, clinicians, and community leaders to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and foster collaborations that address the complex challenges of mental health in diverse cultural contexts, with the goal of emphasizing reciprocal learning across borders, communities, and disciplines.

2025 - April 3-5, Albuquerque, NM

Bridging Cultures in Mental Health: Local Insights, Global Implications
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2024 - April 11-13, Toronto, Ontario

Strengthening Cultural Psychiatry through Community Engagement, Social Connection, and Interprofessional Collaboration
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2021 - April 22-24, Virtual

Collaborating for Justice and Equity: Bridging Divides and Healing Wounds
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2022 - April 21-23, Virtual

Explorations of Identity: Language, Embodiment, Intersectionality & Justice
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2020 - September 25, October 9-10, Virtual

Collaboration: Partnership, Translation, Integration
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2023 - April 27-30, San Diego, California/Virtual

Practices that Harm Practices that Heal | Ecologies of Mind
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2019 - April 25-27, Toronto, Ontario

Engagement, Empowerment, Equity: From Theory to Practice
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2018-2009 Dates, Locations and Themes

2018 - April 19-21, San Diego, California
What Does “Culture” Mean? Evolving Definitions in Mental Health Service, Training, and Research

2017 - April 27–29, Princeton, New Jersey
Culture and Mental Health: Family Matters

2016 - May 5–7, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Transforming Policy and Practice for Culturally Competent Mental Health Care

2015 - April 23-25, Providence, Rhode Island
Culture and Global Mental Health

2014 - May 15–17, San Diego, California
Trauma, Culture and Recovery

2013 - May 3-5, Toronto, Ontario
Addressing the Stigma of Mental Illness

2012 - May 9-11, New York, New York
Globalization and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism (video)

2011 - June 2-4, Seattle, Washington
Integrating Medicine and Psychiatry in Multi-Ethnic Settings

2009 - May 15-17, San Francisco, California
Advances in Cultural Psychiatry: Patient Care, Teaching and Research