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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Eliciting social stressors, supports, and determinants of health through the DSM-5 cultural formulation interview [PDF]
ObjectiveAs recognition of the importance of social determinants of mental health has increased, the limitations of clinical competence-enhancing interventions that do not emphasize this approach have emerged.
Neil Krishan Aggarwal +2 more
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The effect of the cultural formulation interview on therapeutic working alliance: a study protocol [PDF]
BackgroundThe Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is designed to improve understanding of patients’ mental health care needs. The lack of empirical evidence on the impact and effectiveness of CFI use in clarifying people’s perspectives, experiences ...
Alma M. Brand +11 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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Editorial: Clinical implementation of the DSM-5 cultural formulation interview [PDF]
Sofie Bäärnhielm +4 more
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Unlocking asylum seekers’ voices: protocol of a mixed-method clinical study on the use of the cultural formulation interview with asylum seekers in Belgium [PDF]
BackgroundDespite a high prevalence of mental disorders among asylum seekers, many barriers to mental healthcare exist. Cultural and contextual factors strongly influence the experience and expression of psychological distress, putting asylum seekers at ...
Lukas Claus +8 more
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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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Being in-between; exploring former cult members’ experiences of an acculturation process using the cultural formulation interview (DSM-5) [PDF]
ObjectiveTo explore the experiences of acculturation into secular Swedish society of former members of cults, with particular focus on mental health, needs and resources.DesignQualitative method using the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) from the DSM-
Cecilia Hadding +6 more
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Update on the Cultural Formulation Interview. [PDF]
This article reviews the clinical and research literature on the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) since its publication in DSM-5. The CFI is an interview protocol designed to be used by clinicians in any setting to gather essential data to produce a cultural formulation.
Jarvis GE +4 more
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An Introduction to the Cultural Formulation Interview. [PDF]
(Reprinted from Focus 2015; 13:426-431).
Aggarwal NK, Lewis-Fernández R.
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