(October 24, 2016)

Powerpoint:

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Immigrants, Refugees, Ethnoracial Communities (Donna E. Stewart, CM, MD, FRCPC, University Professor, Senior Scientist, Founding Chair of Women's Health, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada)

Intimate Partner Violence (Ruchi Ray, MA, MCC, LCPC, Supervisor of Counseling Services, Apna Ghar)

CCS Experiences of Clinical Considerations: Intimate Partner Violence in Refugee, Immigrant, and Ethnoracial Communities (Jaswant Guzer, MD, Head of Child Psychiatry, Director of Childhood Disorders Day Hospital, Jewish General Hospital; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University)

By the end of the presentation, the participant will be able to:

Describe the wide range of prevalence of intimate partner violence across the world and some specific issues that may increase the risk for immigrants, refugees, and ethnoracial communities (Stewart).

Discuss community and organizational-based responses to immigrant or refugee survivors of domestic/gender-based violence and strategize collaborations with other service providers (Ray).

List several obstacles, challenges, and implications of working with partner violence in refugees, immigrants, and ethnoracial communities. Materials will be drawn from case study approaches from McGill Jewish General Cultural Consultation Service (Guzder).

Donna E. Stewart, MD, is a University Professor and Inaugural Chair of Women’s Health at University Health Network and University of Toronto. Dr Stewart is a women’s health researcher, educator, author, advocate and policy advisor nationally and internationally. She is a Senior Scientist and Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, Obstetrics, and Family and Community Medicine and has published over 360 peer-reviewed papers, 4 books and has had over 100 peer-reviewed research grants. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, the American College of Psychiatrists and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Psychiatric Association. She is the Zone 1 Representative and on the Board of the World Psychiatric Association, a consultant to World Health Organization, and a recent member of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Institutional Advisory Board of the Institute for Gender and Health. She has won numerous international awards and in 2014 was made a member of the Order of Canada-the country’s highest civilian honor. 

Ruchi Ray, MA, NCC, LCPC, is the supervisor of counseling services at Apna Ghar and serves as an adult counselor for residential and non-residential clients at the agency. She received her master’s degree in counseling psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology (now Adler University). Ruchi is clinically licensed and nationally certified as a counselor in the United States. Ruchi has been serving populations who have experienced domestic violence including clients with co-occurring mental health conditions, ethnoracial backgrounds (Middle East, South Asian, and African countries to name a few), and different cases of family or gender-based violence. She has received her 40-hour certificate of completion in domestic violence training to be qualified to work with domestic violence or gender-based violence survivors. Her time at Apna Ghar has allowed her to gain experience and expertise of serving several client populations with the majority being immigrant or refugee survivors of violence.

Jaswant Guzder, MD, is Head of Child Psychiatry and Director of Childhood Disorders Day Hospital at the Jewish General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. She is active in the Child and Transcultural Psychiatry Divisions. She is the Quebec representative to the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her research collaborations have focused on the etiology of borderline personality disorder in adults and borderline pathology in childhood, with an interest in neuropsychological risk, parental, family, and trauma factors. Her collaborations in transcultural psychiatry include work with Mental Health Commission of Canada (Diversity Steering Committee), the Teasdale Corti Global Health Project, and research on immigrant youth and children.

Kenneth Fung, MD, FRCPC, MSc (Moderator) is Staff Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health Program, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and Associate Professor with Equity, Gender, and Populations Division, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. His primary research, teaching, and clinical interests include both cultural psychiatry and psychotherapy, especially in cultural competence, immigrant mental health, HIV stigma, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. He co-leads Pillar 4 Dialogue of the UT Department of Psychiatry Strategic Plan. He is psychiatric consultant to Hong Fook Mental Health Association and Mon Sheong Scarborough Long-Term Care Centre. He is the President of the Ontario Chapter of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science, President-Elect of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, and past Chair and current Historian of the Federation of Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Medical Societies.