The intersection of psychotherapeutic work and the cultural axis
Join us for a lecture of the Dalhousie Global Mental Health Guest Lecture Series presented by Dr. Jaswant Guzder, Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia (psychiatry); Co-Director UBC Social and Cultural Psychiatry Program; and Adjunct Professor (psychology) University of Victoria.
This lecture is offered as part of the Department of Psychiatry’s rounds. For more information about Psychiatry rounds, visit the Psychiatry Rounds Webpage.
Event details
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Time: 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. ADT/7:30 to 8:30 a.m. EDT
Location: Presented on Zoom. Attend Online Passcode: 510555
Learning objectives:
- Review of intersections of psychotherapy and cultural axis considerations
- Indisciplinary contributions from global health: culture and healing shifted by cultural paradigms
- Psychotherapy: Implications of cultural humility, neutrality, racism, psychohistoriography and ethnocentrism
About the speaker
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Currently, Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia (psychiatry), Co-Director UBC Social and Cultural Psychiatry Program, Adjunct Professor (psychology) University of Victoria, and McGill University Professor (retired), Department of Psychiatry - remaining active in teaching and research collaborations with both Division of Child Psychiatry and Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. Since 2020 January, clinical work remains in Victoria BC primarily with the Vancouver Island Center for Refugee and Immigrant Mental Health (VICCIR) and from 2020 to 2023 with the Vancouver Island ICYMH (Indigenous Child and Youth Health). As part of UBC strategic development committee for Indigenous, she engaged efforts to build a UBC cultural competency training. Former positions at McGill were Head of Jewish General Hospital Child Psychiatry, Director of Childhood Disorders Hospital, first Director of Fellowship Program in Family Therapy Residency Training, founding Co-Director of the Jewish General Cultural Consultation Service and for 25 yrs trainer for master’s students in Concordia Art Therapy department. Her research work has been focused on advocacy for refugees and immigrants, children at risk and cultural psychiatry in global health initiatives, training centered on high risk children and supporting infrastructure development particularly with Jamaica, University of West Indies, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Her research collaborations include articles and book chapters as well as a co-edited volume, Cultural Consultation: Encounter the Other in Mental Health Care and a book in collaboration the Museo Laboratorio Della Mente in Rome 2017 (art exhibition and art residency). As a clinician and advocate in mental health work, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal. She is a mother and a third generation immigrant whose grandfather migrated in 1906 to Vancouver Island. |
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Accreditation
The Dalhousie Department of Psychiatry Clinical Academic/University Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Questions?
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