DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview - Softcover

Roberto Lewis-Fernandez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585624926 ISBN 13: 9781585624928

Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is a product of the arduous process that resulted in publication of the DSM-5, and only one book, The DSM-5 Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview, provides clinicians with the background and guidance they need to implement the CFI. The Handbook teaches the reader how to conduct a cultural assessment using the CFI, which consists of three types of semi-structured interviews. Although the CFI was not designed to be the sole basis for making a clinical diagnosis, it can be used in research and clinical settings to enhance clinical understanding and decision making. The volume presents techniques to help providers situate their work within the context of a patient's culture to enhance communication, not only with those of different cultures but across all clinical encounters. Especially instructive are the supplemental videos that demonstrate application of the CFI components through the use of clinical vignettes.

Clinicians will, of course, find the DSM-5® Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview indispensable, but administrators, policy makers, advocates, and other practitioners who work collaboratively to engage patients in the mental health care process will also value its clarity and comprehensiveness.

About this title

About the Author

Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, M.D., M.T.S., is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and is the Director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence and of the Hispanic Treatment Program at the New York State Psychiatry Institute, New York, New York.

Neil Krishan Aggarwal, M.D., M.B.A., M.A., is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York Ladson Hinton, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California

Devon E. Hinton M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Laurence J. Kirmayer, M.D., is James McGill Professor and Director of the Division if Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

From the Back Cover

The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is a product of the arduous process that resulted in publication of the DSM-5, and only one book--DSM-5 Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview--provides clinicians with the background and guidance they need to implement the CFI. The Handbook teaches the reader how to conduct a cultural assessment using the CFI, which consists of three types of semistructured interviews. Although the CFI was not designed to be the sole basis for making a clinical diagnosis, it can be used in research and clinical settings to enhance clinical understanding and decision making. The volume presents techniques to help providers situate their work within the context of a patient's culture to enhance communication--not only with those of different cultures but across all clinical encounters. Especially instructive are the supplemental videos that demonstrate application of the CFI components through the use of clinical vignettes.

Clinicians will, of course, find the DSM-5(R) Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview indispensable, but administrators, policy makers, advocates, and other practitioners who work collaboratively to engage patients in the mental health care process will also value its clarity and comprehensiveness.

From the Inside Flap

The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is a product of the arduous process that resulted in publication of the DSM-5, and only one book -- DSM-5 Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview -- provides clinicians with the background and guidance they need to implement the CFI. The Handbook teaches the reader how to conduct a cultural assessment using the CFI, which consists of three types of semistructured interviews. Although the CFI was not designed to be the sole basis for making a clinical diagnosis, it can be used in research and clinical settings to enhance clinical understanding and decision making. The volume presents techniques to help providers situate their work within the context of a patient's culture to enhance communication -- not only with those of different cultures but across all clinical encounters. Especially instructive are the supplemental videos that demonstrate application of the CFI components through the use of clinical vignettes.

Clinicians will, of course, find the DSM-5® Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview indispensable, but administrators, policy makers, advocates, and other practitioners who work collaboratively to engage patients in the mental health care process will also value its clarity and comprehensiveness.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585624926
• ISBN 13: 9781585624928
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Ladson Hinton, Devon Emerson Hinton, Laurence J. Kirmayer