Challenges and Rewards of a culturally-informed approach to mental health | Jessica Dere | TEDxUTSC
Dr. Jessica Dere explains how culture makes a difference when thinking about mental health and mental illness. Across mental health research, clinical care and teaching, there are profound rewards to be had by truly understanding individuals in context.
Dr. Jessica Dere is a clinical lecturer in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science at UTSC. She obtained her Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from Concordia University in 2012, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) training program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Her research interests include the role of cultural factors in emotional processes and cultural variations in symptom presentation of depression and anxiety.
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Great talk. Thanks!
PROFOUND !!!
Thank you so much for emphasizing this much-needed approach to mental health, counseling and all other caring professions !
Go Jessica I could always use better Mental Health
Brilliant! This is simple, so coherent, but so powerful.
Thank you Dr. Dere for ideas that I will be using as it pertains to my future clients.
Cultural Competence
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Profound video, thanks Dr.Dere
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I love the recognition of the complexity of the topic. I also loved the organization and flow of her talk. Excellent.
I m picturing myself.😅
thank you
Great coverage of this topic
so very heartwarming to know there is an out-of-box approach being discussed regarding mental health. thank you for your work and resolve in this area.
I love this!
Reality is constantly in need of evaluation, testing, and experimenting. We hold too many biases about what is "Normal" for any of us to cast stones at the weird people.
this was sooo great, yes must bring in culture always. But whew!!!! this talk was boring!!!! sooooo slow.
Thank You Dr. Dere!
Get out of the life, get out of the lifestyle.
War.
Classwork.
1) Take a stance of informed curiosity.
2) Ask different questions, and ask questions differently.
Clear and expanded my perspective on culture beyond race and gender but familial. Family emotions embedded in a person that creates there since of value
Dr. Dere discusses 2 things that healthcare providers can do to have a culturally-informed approach to mental health. One, take a stance of informed curiosity and then ask questions and ask questions differently. Culture and religion are 2 things that can massively influence an individual’s willingness to receive treatment and can influence who the primary decision maker is. Understanding where a patient is coming from is so crucial in providing optimal care to a patient. Autonomy in medical decision making is an ethical principle that is dealt a lot with when it comes to incorporating culture into a healthcare decision. Sometimes, a parent, grandparent, or even community leader is the one who makes the decision and physicians in the United States may have issues because this contradicts the patient having that autonomy. It also becomes difficult when there is a life-saving treatment that a patient or their family will not allow because that treatment may cause spiritual or everlasting harm based on that family’s culture. I agree with Dr. Dere in that asking and practicing asking in different ways is very crucial in order to be more culturally-informed. That way the patient preferences and understanding of what autonomy means to them, can be taken into account and healthcare professionals can be more culturally sensitive. However, out of the context of mental health this point gets very messy. In emergent situations where there isn’t time to call and consult family or a provider isn’t able to discuss with the patient about their cultural background, then this is where things get fuzzy. My only argument is that being culturally sensitive all the time and in specific specialties may be more difficult because of the nature of the situations. In mental health, I completely agree with Dr. Dere’s methods. It is in other situations of medicine that I would like to hear more about.
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