Congress Scientific Program

(Final as of 08 20-2006)

[Room Assignment]:

16^th District, 3^rd Floor:

Room 105 – Plenary session:A-1, 2 (Sept 24 a.m.); A- 3, 4 (Sept 25 a.m.); and

Panel presentation: P-1, 2 (Sept 26 p.m.)

16^th District, 2^nd Floor:

Room 78 – Symposium: 1, 11 (Sept 24 p.m.); 21, 31 (Sept 25 p.m.); 41, 51 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 81 – Symposium: 2, 12 (Sept 24 p.m.); 22, 32 (Sept 25 p.m.); 42, 52 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 82 – Symposium: 3, 13 (Sept 24 p.m.); 23, 33 (Sept 25 p.m.); 43, 53 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 85 – Symposium: 4, 14 (Sept 24 p.m.); 24, 34 (Sept 25 p.m.); 44, 54 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 87 – Symposium: 5, 15 (Sept 24 p.m.); 25, 35 (Sept 25 p.m.); 45, 55 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 88 – Symposium: 6, 16 (Sept 24 p.m.); 26, 36 (Sept 25 p.m.); 46, 56 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 89 – Symposium: 7, 17 (Sept 24 p.m.); 27, 37 (Sept 25 p.m.); 47, 57 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 90 – Symposium: 8, 18 (Sept 24 p.m.); 28, 38 (Sept 25 p.m.); 48, 58 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 91 – Symposium: 9, 19 (Sept 24 p.m.); 29, 39 (Sept 25 p.m.); 49, 59 (Sept 26 a.m.)

Room 92 – Symposium:10, 20(Sept 24 p.m.); 30, 40 (Sept 25 p.m.); 50, 60 (Sept 26 a.m.)

16^th District, 2^nd Floor:

Room 83 – Congress office (Sept 23-26) – for registration

Room 86 – Association office (Sept 23-24, 25 a.m.; 26 p.m.) – for business meeting

T-IV: Audio-Visual Session (Sept 25 p.m.); Symposium: 61 (Sept 26 a.m.)

[Congress Program]:

[FIRST DAY]: September 24 (Sunday)

8:00-8:20 a.m. – WACP Inauguration Ceremony

8:20-8:55 a.m. – Congress Open Ceremony

Morning Session: Plenary Presentations (A-1: 9:00-10:15 a.m. A-2: 10:30-12:00 a.m.)

A-1: Migration and refugees in the world today: The tasks for cultural psychiatry

Moderator(s) – Wen-Shing Tseng (USA), SHEN Yu-cun (China), Goffredo Bartocci (Italy)

Presenter – Ron Wintrob (USA) – Overview of the phenomena around the world

Discussant(s) – Fumitaka Noda (Japan) – Situation in Asia: Particularly in Japan

Kam Bhui (UK) – Situation in Europe: Particularly in UK

David Kinzie (USA) – Experiences of working with refugee

A-2: Ethnicity, religious faith, and mental health: The need for mutual understanding

Moderators – Goffredo Bartocci (Italy), PENG Rui-chong (China), Wen-Shing Tseng (USA)

Presenters – James Boenhlein (USA) – Christianity and mental health

Simon Dein (UK) -- Judaism and mental health

M. Fakhr El-Islam (Egypt) – Islam and mental health

Suk Choo Chang (USA) – Buddhism and mental health

Afternoon Session: Topic Symposia (S-I: 1:30-3:30 p.m. S-II: 4:00-6:00 p.m.)

S-I-1: Culture and personality: The Chinese context

Chair/Co-Chair: Fanny Cheung (Hong Kong, China), QIAN Ming-yi (China)

Fanny Cheung (Hong Kong, China) – Indigenous personality correlates from the CPAI-2

Profiles of Chinese psychiatric patients.

Freedom Leung (Hong Kong, China) – CPAI-2 profiles of Chinese psychiatric patients

displaying narcissistic personality disorder features.

QIAN Mingyi (China) – Shame research in mainland China.

ZHONG Jie et al. (China) – Shame, personality and social anxiety symptoms in Chinese and

United State non-clinical samples: A cross-cultural study.

S-I-2: Culture and psychology: Relating to Chinese

Chair/Co-Chair: LIU Xie-he (China), XIAO Ze-ping (China)

Doris Chang (USA): Cultures in transition: Perspectives on China and the United States

WANG Minjie et al. (China) – Personality development: A 18-years follow-up study of the

single and non-single children in Nanjing, China

Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting (Malaysia/USA) & Alvin Dueck (USA) – Effect of language and

culture on bilingual Chinese verbal expression of depression

YAN Heqin (China) – Confucius thought and its implication for Chinese in therapy

S-I-3: Migration, globalization, and cultural psychiatry

Chair/Co-Chair: Riyadh Al Baldawi (Sweden), Eng-Seong Tan (Australia)

Riyadh Al Baldawi (Sweden) – The impact of migration on psychiatric service in Sweden:

The role of muticultural and multiethnic structure of a psychiatric team in clinical

relations, diagnosis and treatment

Rachid Benegardi (France) – Uprooting and explanatory models in cultural psychiatry

Afzal Javed (UK) – Migration, globalization and cultural psychiatry: British scene

Sir Carlos Warter (USA) – Identity: Roadmap to a global civilization: Survival or extinction

S-I-4: Racism, discrimination, and stigma: A comparison of local experiences and research

Chair/Co-Chair: Kam Bhui (UK), Albert Persaud (UK)

Kam Bhui et al. (UK) – Racial/ethnic discrimination and common mental health disorders

among workers: Findings from the EMPIRIC study of Ethnic Minority Groups in

the United Kingdom

Carolyn Steele, Gordon Boxall & Ian Grant (UK) – Non-stigmatizing UK model of mental

health service delivery by non-government organizations, utilizing a methodology of

partnership, networking and good practice.

LUO Xiaonian (China) – A cultural prejudice in Chinese psychiatry

Samson Tse, et al. (New Zealand) – Mental health and not mental illness: Strengths model of

care applied to Chinese patients.

S-I-5: Culture, women, and mental health

Chair/Co-Chair: Geetha Jayram (USA), Takayo Inoue (Japan)

Takayo Inoue (Japan) – Japanese women and mental health

Geetha Jayram (USA) – Indian women and mental health

Oksuk Mary Kim (USA) – Korean women and mental health

Saida Douki et al. (Tunisia)—Women’s mental health in Arab and Islam countries

S-I-6: Culture and psychosomatic medicine

Chair/Co-Chair: Jon Streltzer (USA), Albert Yeung (USA)

Jon Streltzer (USA) – Medical culture and pain management

Hyun-Woo Kim (Korea) – Somatization and problems in mental health care in Korea

Hans Rohlof et al. (the Netherlands) – Somatization in refugees with traumatic experiences

JI Jian-lin (China) – Multiple physical complaints and depression in primary care

S-I-7: Culture and addiction psychiatry

Chair/Co-Chair: Andrew Hornblow (New Zealand), LU Qiuyun (China)

Andrew Hornblow (New Zealand) – A national program to change New Zealand’s binge

drinking culture

Ann Gorry (UK) – Establishing the United Kingdom’s national strategy and policy guidance

to improve the experience of people with co-existing substance misuse and mental

health problems

N. A. Bokhan (Russia) & L. Erdenebayar (Mongolia) --- Transcultural problem of addiction

in Mongolia and Russia.

Hiroaki Harai (Japan) & William Haning (USA) – Comparison of substance abuse disorder

treatment between Hawaii in American and Kyushu in Japan

S-I-8: Contribution of Chinese traditional medicine to modern psychiatry

Chair/Co-Chair: Zhou Dengfeng (China), Keh-Ming Lin (USA)

TAN Yunlong et al. (China) – The treatment of Chinese medicine (Chaihu-Taoren Tang) to

tardive dyskinesia and its possible therapeutic mechanism

SONG Yuqing et al. (China) – Effects of Fluoxetine and electro-acupuncture on G-protein

level in platelets membrane from patients with major depression

ZHAO Zhiyu et al. (China) – The treatment effects of Chinese medicine of liquiritin for

chronic stressed, depressed rat

S-I-9: Culture and psychiatry of various subjects

Chair/Co-Chair: Ron Wintrob (USA), Jeff Henderson (USA)

Jeff Henderson (USA) – Resiliency and health among American Indians, particularly among

the Lakota Sioux of South Dakota and other Plains Indians

Deborah Goebert (USA) -- Alcohol use, violence, and ethnocultural identity among

adolescents in Hawaii

Haroon Rashid Chaudhry (Pakistan) – Fifteen-years follow-up of conversion disorder

Mohammed Mahmound Abouelleil Rashed (India/UK) – Culture bound syndrome:

Psychiatric categories in disguise?

S-I-10: Explanatory models in different cultures

Chair/Co-Chair: Joan Obiols-Llandrich (Andorra), Vijoy Varma (India/USA)

Vijoy Varma (India/USA) – Explanatory models of mental health and illness in Indian culture

Sergio Villasenor-Bayardo (Mexico) – Explanatory models of mental disease in Mexico and

Mexican ethnopsychiatry

Joseba Achotegui Loizate (Spain) – Madness in traditional Basque culture

Joan Obiols-Llandrich (Andorra) -- Explanatory models in the Shuar culture

S-II-11: Culture, aging, and health

Chair/Co-Chair: Suk Choo Chang (USA), Masahisa Nishizono (Japan)

Suk Choo Chang (USA) – Aging, memory, and mental health

Iqbal Ahmed (USA) – Ethno-cultural aspects of normal and abnormal aging in the elderly in

the U.S.

Kazuo Yamada (Japan) – Mental health issues of rapidly changing Japanese society by the

increase of senior population and the decrease of children population.

Palmira Rudaleviciene (Lithuania) – Culture, aging and euthanasia issues in Lithuania

S-II-12: Culture, family and relations

Chiar/Co-Chair: Saida Douki (Tunisia), Jing Hsu (USA)

CHEN Yixin (China) – Parent-child relation of single-child family in China

Chizuko Tezuka (Japan) –Mother-child interaction reflected in drawing of “My relationship

with my mother as a child” of Japanese college students in contemporary Japan

Saida Douki (Tunisia) – Family relationship in Muslim societies

YANG Yan-chun (China) – The manifestation and coping styles of marital conflict observed

in China: Cultural impact

S-II-13: Culture and psychopathology

Chair/Co-Chair: Richard Castillo (USA), Albert Young (USA)

Richard Castillo (USA): Trance, functional psychosis and culture

Albert Yeung (USA) – Depression versus somatic disorder: A study of Chinese-Americans

in a U.S. primary care clinic

Marjolein van Duijl (Netherland) – Characteristics and help-seeking behavior of spirit

possessed patients in SW Uganda

Mitra Hakim Shooshtary et al. (Iran) – Risk factors of suicide among Iranian adults

S-II-14: Ethnic minorities in Japan and their help-seeking behavior

Chair/Co-Chair: Fumitaka Noda (Japan), Paul Leong (USA)

Fumitaka Noda (Japan) – Overview: Mental health service for ethnic minorities in Japan

Yu Abe (Japan) – Help-seeking behavior of ethnic minorities in Japan

Kaori Endo & Keisuke Tsuji (Japan) – Child mental health of ethnic minorities in Japan:

A study focused on school truancy of children

Takayo Inoue (Japan) – Culturally competent counseling for ethnic minorities in Japan: The

macro counseling approach

S-II-15: Psychiatry, culture, terror, and war(*)

Chair/Co-Chair : David Kinzie (USA), James Boehnlein (USA)

David Kinzie (USA) – The costs of war: A cultural psychiatric prospective

M. Fakhr El-Islam (Egypt) – The no harm basic rule in Islam culture

James Boehnlein (USA) – Religious and spiritual aftermath of war

Baher Butti (Iraq) – The psychiatric consequences of war on civilians in Baghdad, Iraq

S-II-16: Disaster, trauma, and crisis intervention: Cultural considerations

Chair/Co-Chair: Naotaka Shinfuku (Japan), LU Qiuyun (China)

Naotaka Shinfuku (Japan) – The Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake: Reflection after ten years

LU Qiuyun (China) – Experiences of crisis intervention for victims of disasters in China

FAN Xin (China) – How Chinese tradition help trauma victims cope with trauma events:

Cognitive level and behavior level

Leily Panaghi et al. (Iran) – Validation of the Persian version of Impact of Event Scale-

Revised (IES-R): Experience relating to Bam earthquake in Iran

S-II-17: Traditional medicine and healing*

Chair/cochar: Parimala Moodley (UK), Shun Au (UK), Kam Bhui (UK)

Shun Au & Albert Persaud (UK) – Mental health and complementary therapy: What do users

want?

Nasir Warfa (UK & Somalia) – Culture and mental health: Somalia help seeking and coping

strategies

Jaak Le Roy (Belgium) – Spiritual healing and psycho-social problems in Congo

S-II-18: Culture and psychiatric disorders – Neurasthenia

Chair/Co-Chair: Keh-Ming Lin (Taipei/USA), Mitchell Weiss (Switzerland)

Keh-Ming Lin (USA) – Neurasthenia in Chinese-Americans

SHU Liang (China) – Neurasthenia in China: Its concept, study and therapy

Vasudeo Paralikar et al. (India) – Concordance of alternative criteria sets for disorders of

clinically significant fatigue or weakness in Pune, India

Mohan Agashe et al. (India) & Mitchell Weiss (Switzerland) – Cultural epidemiology of

Neurasthenia spectrum disorders in four general hospital outpatient clinics of

urban Pune, India

S-II-19: Mental health care experience with Asian in North America

Chair/Co-Chair: Paul Leung (USA), Edmund Hsin-tung Pi (USA)

Huang-Tat Ted LO (Canada) – Mental health services for Chinese-Canadians

Paul Leung (USA) – Psychotherapeutic experiences with South Asian refugees

Edmund Hsin-tung Pi (USA) – Mental health delivery system: Cross-cultural experiences in

California

Kenneth Fung (Canada) & Hung-Tat Ted Lo (Canada) – Cultural match between Chinese patients and various psychotherapy models

S-II-20: Culture, health, and care

Chair/Co-Chair: Gianni Biondi (Italy), Jon Streltzer (USA)

Gianni Biondi et al. (Italy) – Cultural changes in pediatric heart transplants: Twenty years’

experience

Deborah Goebert et al. (USA) -- Mental health during pregnancy: A study comparing Asian,

Caucasian and Native Hawaiian women in Hawaii

TANG Lili (China) – The psychological reactions manifested by Chinese patients suffering

from tumor: Cultural impacts

Samuel Okpaku & Carolyn Ross (USA) – Culture and obesity: World’s new trend and

problems

[SECOND DAY]: September 25 (Monday)

Morning Session: Plenary Presentations (A-3: 9:00-10:15 a.m. A-4: 10:30-11:45 a.m.)

A-3: Culture and psychotherapy: East-West integration

Moderator(s) –YOUNG De-seng (China), Ron Wintrob (USA)

Presenter – Wen-Shing Tseng (USA) -- Theoretical exploration from Asian perspectives

Discussant(s) – Masahisa Nishizono (Japan) – Comments from Japanese experiences

Suk Choo Chang (USA) – Search for integration for East and West

A-4: Ethnicity, culture and pharmacotherapy: For relevant treatment

Moderator(s) – Wen-Shing Tseng )USA), ZHOU Deng-feng (China), YU Xin (China)

Presenter – Keh-Ming Lin (USA) -- Ethnicity, culture and pharmacotherapy

Discussant(s) – ZHOU Deng-feng (China) – Psychopharmacological comments

YU Xin (China) – Clinical comments from Chinese perspectives

Afternoon Session: Topic Symposia (S-III: 1:00-3:00 p.m. S-IV: 3:15-5:15 p.m.) & A-V Session

S-III-21: Cultural construction of the spiritual self

Chair/Co-Chair: Goffredo Bartocci (Italy)

Simon Dein (UK) – Mystical states revised

Vitorrio De Luca (Italy) – Delusional intuition and religious inspiration: A literature review

Gian Giacomo Rovera & Giuseppe Rovera (Italy) – The biopsychosocial paradigm:

Evolutionalism vis. a. vis creationism

Raymond Prince (Canada) – Must the spiritual self always involve the supernatural?

The Confucian example

S-III-22: Culture-unique psychotherapy developed in Asia

Chair/Co-Chair: Kwang-Iel Kim (Korea), XIAO Zeping (China), Kenji Kitanishi (Japan)

Kenji Kitanishi (Japan) – Morita therapy in Japan

YOUNG Deseng et al. (China) – Daoistic cognitive psychotherapy: Theoretical base

ZHU Jing-fu (China) – Daoistic cognitive psychotherapy: Practical application

Teruaki Maeshiro (Japan) – Naikan therapy in Japan: Introspection as a way of healing

S-III-23: Culture-related specific syndromes

Chair/Co-Chair: Eng-Seong Tan (Australia), K. I. Kim (Korea), Kei Nakamura (Japan)

Kei Nakamura (Japan) – Taijinkyofushoo in East Asia and social anxiety disorder in the West

Sung Kil Min (Korea) – Hwabyung: A culture-related chronic anger syndrome of Korea

Caesar Korolenko & H. Muhomedzianov (Russia) – Culture-bound mental and sleep

disorders among Siberian Turks

Arabinda. N. Chowdhury (India/UK) – Ethnomedical perception of Koro illness: Study from

North Bengal Koro epidemic, India.

S-III-24: Culture and geriatric psychiatry

Chair/Co-Chair: Iqbal Ahmed (USA), Kiyoshi Maeda (Japan)

Iqbal Ahmed (USA) – Ethno-cultural aspects of psychopharmacological treatment of

the elderly.

Ho Young Lee & Bon Young Koo (Korea) – A situation analysis of indigent elderly in Korea

Kiyoshi Maeda (Japan) – Long-term care insurance of Japan: Its impact on demented people.

YU Xin (China) – Chinese geriatric psychiatry

S-III-25: Are evidence-based medicine and alternative medicine compatible?

Chair/Co-Chair: Hans-Joerg Assian (Germany), Fakhr El-Islam (Egypt)

Christoph Lauber et al. (Switzerland) – Patterns of psychiatric inpatient care in migrants:

Results from Switzerland

Hans-Joerg Assion et al. (Germany) – Unconventional medicine among migrants and

natives in a psychiatric hospital

Marianne Kastrup (Denmark) – Staff competence in dealing with traditional approaches

S-III-26: Psychotherapy in China: Cultural perspectives*

Chair/Co-Chair: LU Qiu-yun (China), ZHAO Xu-dong (China)

QIAN Ming-yi (China): Development of psychotherapy in China

YANG Yan-chun (China): Psychotherapy for medical patient is the general hospital

ZHANG Hai-ying (China): The experiences of Japanese Morita therapy for the Chinese

patients

S-III-27: Culture-relevant psychiatric care

Chair/Co-Chair: Char-Nie Chen (Hong Kong, China), Frank Kortmann (Netherland)

Char-Nie Chen (Hong Kong, China) – Experiences of psychiatric care of people with HIV/

AIDs in Hong Kong

Frank Kortmann (Netherland) – Culture-relevant communications between therapist and

patient: Theoretical considerations

Davor Mucic (Denmark) – Telepsychiatry project in Denmark: Videoconference by distance

by ethnic specialists to immigrants/refugees

YANG Yuchuan et al. (China) – Family therapy and culture: Isolated, layered or integrated

S-III-28: Cultural psychiatry Relating to Latin American (*)

Chair/Co-Chair: Sergio Javier Villasenor Byayardo (Mexico), Lisseth Rojas-Flores (USA)

Sergio Javier Villasenor (Mexico) – Mexican ethnopsychiatry

Marcos de Noronha (Brazil) – Experience in social psychiatry in Brazil

Lisseth Rojas-Flores (USA) – Culture, parenting and child behavior problems: Insight from

an implementation of an evidence-based parenting program with Latino parents in

the United States

Marina Piazza Ferrand (Peru) – The gender, alcohol, and culture study in Peru

S-III-29: Profiles of depressive illness in Eastern Africa: A transcultural perspective

Chair/Co-Chair: Seggane Musisi (Uganda)

Elialilia Okello (Uganda) – Missed depression in African settings: A challenge of cross-

cultural misconstruction.

Joshua Tugumisirize et al. (Uganda) – Prevalence of depression and associated factors in

women in patrilineal and matrilineal communities in Malawi and Uganda: A primary

care perspective

Wilson Muhwezi (Uganda) – Life events and depression in the context of the changing

African family: The case of Uganda

Emilio Ovuga (Uganda) – Depression and suicidal behavior in an African cultural context:

The Response Inventory for Stressful Life Events (RISLE)

S-III-30: Culture, psychiatry and care

Chair/Co-Chair: Bernadette Grosjean (USA), Deborah Goebert (USA)

Selene Luk (USA) – Effective use of interpreter in psychiatric practice

Abee Abed & Mohamed Gheis (Canada) – Is cognitive behavior therapy for depression

a culture specific treatment?

Bernadette Grosjean (USA) & Eiosaku Oyama (Japan/USA) – Culture and borderline

personality disorders: Clinical observation in USA and Japan

Tina Melendrez-Chu (USA) -- Ethnic identity problems and psychiatric disorders

S-IV-31: Culture and psychotherapy in Asia

Chair/Co-Chair: Jung-Kwang WEN (Taipei), CHOU Mei Ling (Singapore)

Jung-Kwang WEN (Taipei) – Guanxi (interpersonal relationship) oriented

psychotherapy

CHOU Mei Ling (Singapore) – Meditation and psychotherapy

Kenton Ko (USA) – How can Buddhist principles aid psychotherapy?

CONG Zhong (China) – Chinese proverbs, mental health, and psychotherapy

S-IV-32: Spirituality, spiritual transformation and healing

Chair/Co-Chair: Joan Koss-Chioino (USA), Solomon Katz (USA), Paul Leung (USA)

Helen Ullrich (USA) – The religious healer and the physician: Determinants of health

care treatment.

Michael Hollified et al. (USA) – Spiritual commitments in refugees

Joan Koss-Chioino (USA) – Spiritual transformation, ritual healing and altruism

Gail Ironson (USA) – Spirituality, spiritual transformation and persons with HIV/AIDs

S-IV-33: Mental health issues in various societies

Chair/Co-Chair: Ho Young Lee (Korea), Renato Alcon (USA)

Kang Sup Oh (Korea) – Public mental health program in Korea: The fact and problems

Tsuyoshi Akiyama (Japan) – Anti-stigma campaign in Japan

Khawla Abu-Bakers (Palestine/Israel) – Essential elements in family therapy with Arab

clients

Renato Alcon (USA) – Globalization and mental health: Blessing or curse?

S-IV-34: Cultural psychiatry in China

Chair/Co-Chair: ZHAO Xudong (China), YAN Heqin (China)

ZHAO Xudong (China) – Development of cultural psychiatry in China

YANG Jainzhong & GUO Wanjun (China) – Psychiatric care and psychiatric state of ethnic

minorities in China

LI Jian-hwa et al. (China) – Twenty-two years longitudinal follow-up study on the

mental health status of the Jino Nationality in Yunnan Province of China

LIU Lianzhong et al. (China) – Psychological status in people who participated in superstitious

activities

S-IV-35: Intra European migration: Its implication for public health

Chair/Co-Chair: Rachid Bennagadi (France), Goffredo Bartocci (Italy)

Joseba Achotegui Loizate (Spain) – The Ulysses syndrome: An overview on migrants’ mental health in Spain

Richard Rechtman (France) – Mental health system for migrants and refugees: A French

aporia

Riyadh Al-Badawi (Sweden) – Psychosomatic consequences of migration and acculturation

related stress

Goffredo Bartiocci (Italy) – Why transcultural psychiatry in Italy does not find a proper

professional locus of action?

S-IV-36: Long term outcome of PTSD: Cultural considerations

Chair/Co-Chair: Micol Ascoli (UK), Devid Kinzine (USA)

Micol Ascoli (UK) – PTSD in Holocaust testimonies: Reflection on elderly survivors’ guilt

and Primo Levi’s suicide.

Simon Dein (UK) – PTSD and the holocaust

Robert Kohn (USA) – Hurricane Mitch: A 2-year longitudinal study in the community

Mario Braakman (Netherlands) – PTSD and psychoses in refugees: Culture or pathology?

S-IV-37: How is the treatment situation for foreign ethnic groups in Germany?

Chiar/Co-Chair: Meryam Shouler-Ocak (Germany), Hans-Joerg Assian (Germany)

Meryam Shoulder-Ocak (Germany) – The utilization of outpatient psychiatric treatment of

patients with migratory background

Echhardt Koch et al. (Germany) – New data on psychiatric inpatients with a background of

migration.

Hans-Joerg Assian (Germany) & Julia Zolotova (Germany) – Challenges of the

institutionalized treatment of migrants in Germany.

Ramaza Salman (Germany) – Addiction and migration.

S-IV-38: Mental health care and cultural psychiatry in developing society*

Chair/Co-Chair: Afzal Javed (UK), Vijoy Varma (USA)

Afzal Javed (UK) – Dimentions of transcultural psychiatry and its relevance to practice of

psychiatry in developing countries

Vijoy Varma (USA) – Role of culture and social dynamics in health and illness in traditional

Societies

Marjolein van Duijl (Netherlands) – Spirit possession, dissociative symptoms, and reported

trauma in Uganda

S-IV-39: Culture and mental health care

Chair/Co-Chair: Deborah Goebert (USA), Yuko Ohara-Hirano (Japan)

Kara Lum (USA) – Patient preference for psychiatrists’ attire: Aloha shirt or white coat?

Jeniffer Farrell (USA) – Collaboration between psychiatrists and clergy: Are Hawaii’s

clergy equipped to recognize and treat serious mental illness?

Solvig Ekblad (Sweden) – Cultural and ethical considerations in the supervision of

international doctorial students

Yuko Ohara-Hirano (Japan) – The factors influence depression of Filipino migrant workers in

Taiwan: Comparative study by gender

S-IV-40: Cultural psychiatry issues in Italy

Chair/Co-Chair: Marco Ferrario (Italy), Paolo Cianconi (Italy)

Paolo Cianconi et al. (Italy) – The end of the migratory dream? Meeting among cultural

diversity, psychiatry and institution

Madia Ferreti et al. (Italy) – The role of possession in migrant

Daniele Berto et al. (Italy) – Italian prison and dual diagnosis: A need of changing care

Francesco Scopelliti et al. (Itly) – Acudetox: Interventions for the detoxication from narcotics,

alternative methodologies and cooperation with the voluntary work

T-IV: Audio-Visual Session (Room 86)

Chiar/Co-chair: Francis Lu (USA), Eng-Seong Tan (Australia)

AV-1 (1:00-2:15 p.m.): Francis Lu (USA) – DSM-IV outline for cultural formulation:

The culture of emotions DVD

AV-2 (2:15-3:00 p.m.): Samuel Opaka (Nigeria/USA) – An African funeral

AV-3 (3:15-4:30 p.m.): Eng-Seong Tan (Australia) -- Latah (Ron Simon’s videotape) and

Koro (MO Ganming’s tape)

[THIRD DAY]: September 26 (Tuesday)

Morning Session: Topic Symposia (S-V: 8:00-10:00 a.m. S-VI: 10:15-12:15 a.m.)

S-V-41: Culture and family counseling

Chair/Co-Chair: Jing Hsu (USA), David McGill (USA), Shin-Ichi Nakamura (Japan)

Joyce L. C. Ma (Hong Kong, China) & CHEN Xiang-yi (China) – Family therapy

experiences in mainland China: The case of Shenzheng

Shin-Ichi Nakamura (Japan) – Experience of family therapy in Japan

David McGill (USA) – Systemic consultation to a Palestinian family near Nablus, Israel:

Family therapy in sociocultural context

Jaak Le Roy (Belgium) – Counseling families facing serious psycho-social conflicts and

mental health problems in Kinshasa, Congo

S-V-42: Experiences of psychoanalytical therapy for the Chinese

Chair/Co-Chair: XIAO Ze-ping (China), Alf Gerlach (Germany)

Margarete Hasse-Wiesiegart (Germany) – The transfer of psychotherapy to China: An

intercultural experiment

Alf Gerlach (Germany) – Psychoanalysis training in China

Jory Bose (US) – The analyst training for Chinese candidates

XIAO Ze-ping (China) – The application of psychodynamic theory on Chinese neurotic

patients

S-V-43: Culture and child/adolescent psychiatry

Chair/Co-Chair: S. Peter Kim (USA), WANG Yu-feng (China)

S. Peter Kim (USA) – Psychotherapy in cultural context for children and families

WANG Yu-feng (China) – Psychological development of hyperactive children: Comparison

between Chinese and American children

Korolenko, C., Zagoruyko, E. N. et al. (Russia) -- Traditional upbringing of children in Tatar,

Azerbajan and Corean in Siberia: Cultural impact on the children development.

Gary Y. Huang (USA) -- Trans-racial adoption: Potential cultural impact on the adopted

children's psychological development.

S-V-44: Forensic psychiatry in different cultures

Chair/Co-Chair: James Boenhlein (USA), XIE Bin (China)

XIE Bin (China) – China’s forensic psychiatry and its role in criminal justice system

Leon Ravin (USA) – The forensic psychiatric service in the Republic of Belarus

Keisuke Tsuji (Japan) – Psychiatric evidence for illegal immigrants in Japan

Micol Ascoli (Italy) – Psychiatric legislations in between social control, risk management and

mental health care: Reflections of an Italian psychiatrist working in the UK.

S-V-45: New perspectives on depression across cultures

Chair/Co-Chair: Joan Koss-Chioino (USA), K. R. Sundararajan (USA)

K. R. Sundararajan & Louise Lu Sundararajan (USA) – Attachment and depression, East and

West: Insights from a comparative study of love mysticism

Louise Sundararajan et al. (USA) – Language, emotion, and health: Intake assessment of

depression by a language analysis program.

S. Lisbeth Jarama et al. (USA) – Immigrant Latino elderly in the US: Their feelings, their

thoughts.

Cyrus Lee (USA) – Universal love-centered psychotherapy for severe depression.

S-V-46: Mental health care of Asian-Canadian

Chair/Co-Chair: Soma Ganesan (Canada), Ted Lo (Canada)

Peter Gibson (Canada) – Community mental health in Vancouver

Soma Ganesan (Canada) – Cross-cultural mental health services in Vancouver, Canada

Hiram Mok (Canada) – Managing anxiety and depression: A cross-cultural clinical

perspective

Kiran Rabheru (Canada) – Cultural effects on the mental health of Canadian elderly

immigrants

S-V-47: Cultural psychiatry in the Eurasian Region

Chair/Co-Chair: Valentin Semke (Russia), Sagat Althynbekov (Kazakhstan)

Valentine Y. Semke (Russia) – Tasks and prospects of Eurasian collaboration in the field of

psychiatry

Sagat Altynbekov (Kazakhstan) – Mental health in Kazakhstan

Arkady Semeke, Valentine Semeke & Lyubov Rakhmazova (Russia) – Models of

psychotherapy of West and East

Margarita Belokrylova & Lina Avdeyonok (Russia) – Ethnocultural aspects of psychosomatic

disorders

S-V-48: Culture and psychotherapy: Unique approach and various considerations (*)

Chair/Co-Chair: YAN Heqin (China), Taejin Choi (Korea)

Taejin Choi (Korea) – Introduction of Tao psychotherapy observed in Korea

Jong Ha Kim (Korea) – Tao psychotherapy and Western psychotherapy

Diana Kamienny Boczkowski (France) – Influence of foreign languages in psychoanalysis

Hao-Wei Wang (Taipei) – The interest of psychotherapy in Taiwan

S-V-49: Traditional healing practice in Italy

Chair/Co-Chair: Vittorio De Luca (Italy), Simon Dein (UK)

Goffredo Bartocci (Italy) – Thuamaturgical and miraculous healing in south Italy

Carla Romano (Italy) –Iychantropy: A belief that a man will turn into a wolf

Andrea Eligi (Italy) – New trends in exorcism: An overview of Itlian practice

Vittorio Infante (Italy) – The bleeding penitence rituals in Southern Italy: The flagellanti (or

vattienti)

S-V-50: Culture, assessment, and pathology

Chair/Co-Chair: William Bolman (USA), Nang Du (USA)

William Bolman (USA) – Asperg’s syndrome and culture

Eberhard Mann (USA) – Cultural differences in the perception of attention-

deficient/hyperactivity disorder

Nang Du et al. (USA) – Development of the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Questionnaires

used in the Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant communities in San Francisco, USA

Sara Sigmaringa Melo (UK) – ‘Poor me’ vs. ‘Bad me’ paranoia: Comparative studies of

clinical and non clinical paranoia in Portuguese and UK samples

S-VI-51: Culture, psychiatry, and epidemiology

Chair/Co-Chair: Michell Weiss (Switzerland), Robert Kohn (USA)

Michell Weiss (Switzerland) – Cultural epidemiology for psychiatry and mental health

Robert Kohn (USA) – Mental health issues of the indigenous populations of Latin America:

Insight from epidemiological field work

WEI Geng et al. (China) – The first epidemiological study of mental disorders of Tibetans

Arabinda. N. Chowdhury (India/UK) – The study of sociocultural context of suicidal

behavior in the Sundarban region, West Bengal

S-VI-52: Culture and suicidal behavior

Chair/Co-Chair: Kwame McKenzie (UK), XIAO Shui-yuan (China)

Marcos de Noronha (Brazil) – The ethnopsychiatric vision of the suicide

Shuichi Katsuragawa (Japan) – Suicidal behavior among the psychiatric patients who visited

emergency room.

XIAO Shui-yuan (China) – Rural residents’ attitude toward suicide and non-suicidal death:

Comparative study on funeral practices in Hunan, China

Kwame McKenzie (UK) – Suicide in ethnic minority groups in UK

S-VI-53: Mental health law and practice

Chair/Co-Chair: Carolyn Steele (UK), Kam Bhui (UK)

Albert Persaud (UK) – The impact of legislation on clinical practice: The English model

Nemu Lallu & Kathrine Greig (New Zealand) – The New Zealand experience of mental

health law and reconciliation approaches.

LIU Xiehe (China) – Mental health law and clinical practice in China

S-VI-54: Experiences of ethnopsychotherapy in Russia

Chair/Co-Chair: Irina Kupriyanova (Russia), Valentin Semke (Russia),

Valentin Semke & Irina Stoyanova (Russia) – Historical roots of ethnopsychotherapy in

Siberia

Irina Kupriyanova (Russia) – Quality of life and ethnopsychotherapy

Valentina Lebedeva & Tamara Shushapanova (Russia) – Comparative clinical and therapeutic

peculiarities of mental disorders in patients of Tatar and Russian nationalities

revealed in general health care

Evgeny Schastnyy & Tatayan Zamoshchina (Russia) – Efficacy of therapy of depressive

disorders with comorbid dementia with memantin in europeoids

S-VI-55: Training Issue: Introducing culture into the psychiatric curriculum

Chair/Co-Chair: Ted LO (Canada), Francis Lu (USA)

Kamaldeep Bhui (UK) – Continuing professional development for cultural psychiatry in the

UK: History and current status

Francis Lu (USA) – Core competencies in US psychiatric residency training: Sociocultural

issues.

Kenneth Fung & Hung-Tat Lo (Canada) – A culturally competent curriculum: The University of Toronto model

Samuel Noh et al. (Canada) – Assessing cultural competence in mental health and addiction practice

S-VI-56: Policy and mental health care of refugees or immigrants

Chair/Co-Chair: Martine Verwey (Switzerland), Luis Caballero (Spain)

Martine Verwey et al. (Switzerland) – Impact of refugee policy on the living conditions of

female asylum seekers in the Netherlands and in Switzerland

Cornelis Laban et al. (Netherlands) – Impact of a long asylum procedure on quality of life,

disability and physical health in Iraqi asylum seekers in the Netherlands: An

epidemiological study

Luis Caballero (Spain) –Cultural formulation of psychiatric case: The case of Moroccans in

Spain

Assefa Negash (Netherland) – Running the gauntlet of exile: Reflections on the experience of

refugees in Western Europe

S-VI-57: Aging and mental health problems across cultures

Chair/Co-Chair: John M. DeFigueiredo (USA), YU Xin (China)

John M. de Figueiredo & Gheorghe Doros (USA) – Sources of variability in the incidence

and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease.

Ge Li et al. (China/USA) – Time trend of dementia morbidity in Beijing

Kazuo Yamada (Japan) – High suicide rate of seniors in Japan: Focusing on the international

comparison.

Diana Kamienny Boczkowski (France) – Mourning: Social representations and psychic

representation

S-VI-58: Natural disasters and mental health in different parts of the world

Chair/Co-Chair: Renato Alarcon (USA), MA Hong (China)

Mark Williams (USA) – Experiences of working with victims of the Pakistan earthquake.

Richard Seime (USA) – Experiences of working with victims of hurricane Katrina.

Athula Sumathiapala (UK) – Tsunami in Sri Lanka and the response by mental health service

MA Hong (China) – Mental health care for victims of disaster: Administrative experience

S-VI-59: Culture and forensic psychiatry

Chair/Co-Chair: J. Srinivasaraghavan (USA), Piyal Sen (UK), S. Peter Kim (USA)

J. Srinivasaraghavan (USA) – Applications of the concept of informed consent in different

cultures

Sharon Tisza (USA) – The duty to warn and the duty to protect the third party: Cultural

analysis

Piyal Sen (UK) – Sex sells, but does it help? –How the dominant culture’s preoccupation with

sex interfere with treatment of sex offenders: The UK experience

Agnieszka Ederveen (Netherlands) – The social construction of stalking: A transcultural

perspective

S-VI-60: Cultural psychiatry relating to the indigenous people

Chair/Co-Chair: John Grigor (New Zealand), Alvin Dueck (USA)

John Grigor & Wiremu Nia Nia (New Zealand) – Restoration of morale: The vital

ingredient in delivering mental health service to Maori

Al Dueck et al. (USA) – Patterns of indigenizing psychology in Puerto Rico and the

Philippines

Soma Ganesan and Frank K. Fung (Canada) – Aboriginal journeys in mental health:

Walking the path together (with visual documentary)

S-VI-61: Cultural psychiatry of various topics (Room 86; 8:00-10:00 a.m.)

Chair/Co-Chair: Dan Mkize (South Africa), Daniel Chen (USA), Mohamed Gheis (Canada)

Ria Borra (Netherland) – Depressive Turkish women in the Netherlands: Clinical challenge

Mohamed Gheis & Abee Abed (Canada) – Language of emotional distress in the Quran and

modern psychopathology in the Muslim world.

Manoj Kumar, Tungetji Tungaraza et al. (UK) – Cultural competence among the overseas

psychiatric trainees in the UK: A cross section survey

Daniel Chen (USA) – Using Patient Health Quesitonnare-9 (PHQ-9) to improve depression

management in a culturally diverse hospital setting

Afternoon Session: Panel Presentation (P-1: 1:30-2:45 p.m. P-2: 3:00-4:15 p.m.)

P-1: Career development for cultural psychiatrist

Chair/Co-Chair: Ron Wintrob (USA), Raymond Prince (Canada)

Ron Wintorb (USA) – Culture and personality: Reflections on my career in cultural

psychiatry

Fumitaka Noda (Japan) – How can a cultural psychiatrist develop his/her cultural

competence in an ethnically homogenous society like Japan?

Mitchell Weiss (Switzerland) – Experience and milestones on an unmarked path

Marianne Kastrup (Denmark) -- Transcultural psychiatry: Specific problems related to

gender

P-2: The future of cultural psychiatry

Chiar/Co-Chair: Wen-Shing Tseng (USA), Goffredo Bartocci (Italy)

Renato Alarcon (USA) – Bio-cultural connections in psychiatry and psychopatholgy

James Boenhlei (USA) – Integration of research and clinical applications

Wen-Shing Tseng (USA) – Cultural psychiatry beyond issues of minorities and immigrants

4:15-4:45 p.m. – WACP Business Meeting

4:45-5:15 p.m. – Congress Closing Ceremony

V-Poster: To be posted from Sept 24-26 (Listed alphabetically by authors’ family names)

Mark Agius et al. (UK) – Three year outcomes in an Early Intervention Service for Psychosis

in a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic population

Tatyana Gennadyevna Bokhan (Russia) – Stress and coping in young representatives of the

nationalities of Siberia

Ria Borra (Netherland) – Using the cultural formulation in Dutch mental health care: New

Recommendations

Daniel Chen (USA) – Collaborative research on domestic violence among Chinese residents

of Beijing and New York City

Dori Espeso et al. (Spain) – Study of 30 cases of immigrant syndrome with chronic and

multiple stress: The Ulysses syndrome

FAN Yaming (China) – Study of hospitalized homeless psychiatric patients in Shenzheng,

China

Eduardo Goncalves (Portuagal) – Developmental and social attachment functions of

melancholia

Jin-Hee Han et al. (Korea) – Protective allele in Korean narcoleptics with cataplexy

Hiroaki Harai (Japan) – Taijin-kyuofu-sho, social phobia, and social anxiety disorder: Culture

of research but not of patients

Martin Hsia (USA) – Toward an indigenous Chinese therapy for work-related stress

Wei-ching Huang (Taipei) – Pre-morbid death-related traumatic experiences of Chinese

panic disorder patients in Taiwan

T. I. Ivanova (Russia) – Quality of life in unemployed in Siberia

Yoshichika Kawaguchi et al. (Japan) – The concept of psychiatric disease and behavioral

coping patterns of patients’ family in Vietnam

Samuel Law (Canada) – Is psychiatric model of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

suitable for China ? – A study of cultural and social assumption of the ACT model

Russell Lim (USA) – A four-year curriculum in cultural psychiatry (for the residents in UC

Davis, USA)

Rui Nouchi (Japan) – The change of help-seeking behaviors in mental health across

ethnicities: Latin American and Cambodian migrants in Japan

S. S. Odarchenko (Russia) – Assistance rendered to a person in later life

C. Querel & Francisco Rengifo et al. (France) – Linguistic approach in a psychiatric

department for adults: Deafness and mental health

Lisseth Rojas-Flores et al. (USA) –Youth’s exposure to community violence: Exploring

ethnicity and gender variables in a suburban sample in the United States

G. M. Soomro (UK) – Ethnic differences in mental health in the UK

Ko Ukawa (Japan) – Cultural aspects of pregnancy and delivery in three groups of

Vietnamese women: Comparative study between Japan and Canada

Amanda Wheeler (New Zealand) – Ethnic variations in pathways and patterns of care for

mental health outpatients in Auckland, New Zealand

WU Weili (China) – The mental representation model of social anxiety disorder based on

Chinese culture

Ernestine Wohlfart (Germany) – Transcultural concepts of mental health issues developed at a

German university clinic

Herbert Yim (USA) – Dementia caregiving by the family: A systematic approach

Naofumi Yoshida (Japan) – Is PTSD a new culture bound syndrome?

ZHENG Yu (China) – Oedipus complex: Its Chinese form? – A psychoanalytic reading of the

four Chinese folktales