Psychiatric interviews are a challenge in any language, let alone across languages and cultures. This webinar is an overview of the various areas of psychiatric interviews. It is designed to familiarize participants with the ways language affects the Mental Status Exam. Through interactive discussion and exercises, participants will acquire the tools to successfully navigate situations and be able to understand the fundamentals of Interpreting Psychiatric Interviews and the role they play as the interpreter.
This webinar is live and instructor-led. Participants are required to actively participant in the workshop.
CEUs available for the ATA, CA, the CCHI, CO, FL,KY, MS, OK, OR, PA, TN, and TX.
This course is also available for RID PINRA CEUs through the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing. Please contact ceu@acdhh.az.gov for more information.
Instructors:
Maria Carla Faccini, CHI, MA has been certified as a health care interpreter since 2011. She has an MA in conference interpreting (Spanish-English-French) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She works as a medical interpreter/translator at Stanford Health Care. She has been training medical interpreters since 2003.
Dr. Adrienne Mishkin, MD, MPH, MS, is a native New Yorker. She completed Medical School and a Public Health Master's degree in New Orleans at Tulane University, and moved back to New York to continue specialization training in psychiatry (at St. Luke's-Roosevelt) and then in psychosomatic medicine (at Montefiore). She then completed her MS in Bioethics at the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Bioethics. She is the psychiatric liaison to the Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Her interests include psychiatric care of patients with life-threatening illness, cancer, sickle cell disease, infertility and subfertility, medical post-traumatic stress, clinician mental health, surrogate decision-making, public health, access to care and equity.