Half-time seminars Half-time control Malin Idar Wallin
Title: Developing culturally-sensitive psychiatric diagnostics
Main supervisor
Sofie Bäärnhielm, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Co-supervisors
Maria Rosaria Galanti, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet
Lauri Nevonen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University
Half-time review board
Mats Adler, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Lene Lindberg, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet
Anna Bredström, Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), Linköping University
Brief description
This PhD project aims to contribute to the development of improved transcultural psychiatric diagnostics. The overall aim is to evaluate the culture-sensitive and person-centred tool, the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), included in the psychiatric diagnostic manual DSM-5. The evaluation addresses the CFI’s effect on diagnostic outcome, patients and clinicians’ experiences of using it and analysis of what information the CFI contributed to the diagnostic assessment.