First year residents |
Session 1 | Panel: definitions, concepts, beliefs and practices of the world's major religious traditions |
Session 2 | A survey of mental health research on religion and spirituality |
Session 3 | Taking a religious/spiritual history |
Session 4 | Healthy spirituality versus psychopathology |
Session 5 | Religious/spiritual issues encountered in working with mentally ill homeless people |
Session 6 | Religious/spiritual development through the life cycle |
Session 7 | Working with interpreters |
Session 8 | Collaborating with clergy in the clinical care of psychiatric patients |
Second year residents |
Session 1 | Exploring diversity: DSM-IV cultural formulation and beyond |
Session 2 | What is culture? |
Third year residents |
Session 1 | A brief history of the psychiatry-religion interface |
Session 2 | Transference, counter-transference and more |
Session 3 | Panel: spiritual psychotherapists |
Session 4 | Religious/spiritual and ethical issues at the end of life |
Session 5 | The role of culturally based healers and care providers |
Session 6 | The impact of cultural differences between physician and patient |
Session 7 | “Who is this individual?” Putting knowledge into practice |
Fourth year residents |
Session 1 | Religion, spirituality, sexuality, marriage and divorce |
Session 2 | Religion/spirituality in the treatment of substance abusing patients |
Session 3 | Religion/spirituality in the treatment of gay/lesbian patients |
Session 4 | Integrating spirituality into psychotherapy: clinical vignettes |
Session 5 | Existential inquiry |