Could the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview Hold Therapeutic Potential? Suggestions for Further Exploration and Adaptation Within a Framework of Therapeutic Assessment. [PDF]
The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), included in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a person-centered instrument for systematically appraising the impact of cultural factors in psychiatric assessment ...
Strand M, Bäärnhielm S.
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Approaching “highly sensitive person” as a cultural concept of distress: a case-study using the cultural formulation interview in patients with bipolar disorder [PDF]
BackgroundPsychiatric patients may refer to concepts neither medically accepted nor easily understood to describe their experiences when seeking medical care.
Michael Ioannou +6 more
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The Cultural Formulation Interview as a clinical tool in the assessment of eating disorders: a pilot study. [PDF]
Background The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in the DSM-5 is a person-centered instrument for systematically appraising the impact of sociocultural factors in psychiatric assessment. The CFI has been shown to be feasible, acceptable, and useful in
Strand M, Welch E, Bäärnhielm S.
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Cultural formulation interview: Awareness and attitudes of South African psychiatrists and psychiatry registrars [PDF]
Background: The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) includes a set of 16 questions formulated for clinicians to obtain information about cultural influences on an individual’s clinical presentation during a mental health assessment.
Dijeng J. Mabaso, Carla Kotze
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Patients' and clinicians' experiences of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: A mixed method study in a Swedish outpatient setting. [PDF]
This study is an evaluation of clinicians’ and patients’ experiences of the core Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in DSM-5. The CFI provides a framework for gathering culturally relevant information, but its final form has not been sufficiently ...
Wallin MI +3 more
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Symptom vs context: lessons learned from a large-scale implementation of the Cultural Formulation Interview [PDF]
Mental health services in multicultural societies require culturally sensitive approaches to reduce health disparities. The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is thought to enhance shared decision making and to facilitate culturally and contextually ...
Linda Silvius +2 more
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Patient and clinician communication practices during the DSM-5 cultural formulation interview field trial. [PDF]
Cultural psychiatrists and medical anthropologists have collaborated to help clinicians screen for culture-related issues in patient explanatory models of illness and to enhance the clinical processes of engagement, diagnosis, and treatment planning ...
Aggarwal NK +2 more
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A qualitative analysis of the documentation of DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interviews with non-native speaking patients in a Swedish mental health care setting [PDF]
IntroductionCultural variety in expressed symptom presentations of mental health problems creates difficulties in transcultural diagnostic assessments.
Malin Idar Wallin +7 more
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What information did the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interviews provide when used with Swedish-speaking patients in a psychiatric setting in Stockholm? [PDF]
IntroductionCultural and contextual factors affect communication and how psychiatric symptoms are presented, therefore psychiatric assessments need to include awareness of the patients’ culture and context. The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in DSM-
Malin Idar Wallin +7 more
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Efficacy pilot study of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview in a specialized mental healthcare inpatient unit for adolescents in Norway [PDF]
BackgroundThe DSM-5 core Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is designed with the agenda of letting the patient’s perspective become as important for treatment and care as the clinician’s assessments.
Nina Therese Øversveen Svamo +3 more
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