Ï㽶ÊÓƵ News - Transcultural Psychiatry /channels/news_feeds/all/term/Transcultural%20Psychiatry/rss en McGill-Concordia-uOttawa research team finds correlation between COVID-19-based discrimination and poor mental health /channels/channels/news/mcgill-concordia-uottawa-research-team-finds-correlation-between-covid-19-based-discrimination-and-331009 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Visible minorities, health-care workers and young people in Quebec have been at higher risk of experiencing COVID-19-related discrimination and more likely to suffer from poor mental health in the past year, according to a collective of researchers from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.</p> <p>The researchers set out to study how factors such as people’s socioeconomic and minority status, discrimination, stigmatization and mental health impact their understanding and adoption of public health measures to combat the coronavirus.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/gettyimages-1263847350.jpg?itok=XnKrwyV3" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">12 </span><span class="month">May </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 12 May 2021 14:12:56 +0000 webfull 170540 at /channels Spotlight on Dr. Laurence J Kirmayer /channels/news/spotlight-dr-laurence-j-kirmayer-232881 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>This week, we would like to <i>spotlight </i><b>Dr. Laurence J Kirmayer</b>, a James McGill Professor and the Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. He is also editor-in-chief of <i>Transcultural Psychiatry</i> (the official journal of the Section on Transcultural Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association), which was founded at McGill and celebrated its 50<sup>th</sup> volume on October 25, 2013.</p> <p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/s200_laurence_kirmayer.jpg?itok=oFpVcVZT" width="160" height="160" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2014</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:14:47 +0000 webfull 101086 at /channels