| Joining
Hands: Cross-Cultural Mental Health
The Joining Hands workshop helps service
providers begin to understand how individuals/families from
different cultures view mental illness. It looks at how the
views of newcomers and individuals belonging to different
cultures can impact the way in which they seek help and, as
a result, how the helping relationship should be approached.
The workshop teaches mental health workers to become aware
of the barriers that exist for immigrants experiencing mental
illness in accessing services and how these barriers are often
created by the western approach to treatment and the counselling
relationship.
The Joining Hands workshop also teaches participants
that keeping in mind their clients’ experiences of migration
(pre-migration life, the migration journey and post-migration
life) is fundamental in assessment and building rapport. The
workshop encourages service providers to re-examine their
assessment strategies and offers suggestions on how to build
rapport and relationships with their clients based on a cross-cultural
approach.
It is our hope that when we as service providers try to help
individuals - from cultures similar to or different from our
own - we do so with compassion and an attempt to understand
the ways they view mental illness and, therefore, the different
ways they will seek help, and view treatment and the helping
relationship.
For more information or to book one of these workshops for
your organization please contact us at 416-789-7957 ext 260 or
workshops@cmha-toronto.net
Check the On-site
Workshop Calendar for Joining Hands: Cross-Cultural
Mental Health dates and to register.
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