The Immigrant Experience

What are the stresses encountered by the psychiatrist who is an immigrant or a
refugee? What professional biases does the immigrant psychiatrist need to face, and
what are the implications for family life? What administrative hurdles do they need to
overcome?

• Over 30% of psychiatric residents are international medical graduates, many of whom are
  immigrants. This roundtable discussion highlights the issues they face. See “Residents’
  Roundtable: The Psychiatric Resident’s Immigrant Experience.”
• In this link, Adriana Foster, Kim-Lan Czelusta, Daniela White, Andreea Seritan, and
  James W. Lomax offer a narrative account of immigrants from Iran, Afghanistan, and
  Rumania who became psychiatrists and joined the faculty of the Baylor College of
  Medicine. See “Stories of Success”
  This essay appears as Chapter 25 of The Handbook of Refugee Experience:
  Trauma, Resilience and Recovery, edited by Jeffrey A. Kottler, Sophia Banu, and Suni
  Jani; Cognella Publications, 2019, San Diego; see https://titles.cognella.com/handbookof-refugee-experience-9781516526741). Our thanks to the publishers for permission to
  publish this chapter. Except for personal use or archive, no part of this text may be
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• Eugenio M. Rothe and Andres J. Pumariega address the following questions: “What will
  the ethnic, racial and cultural face of the United States look like in the upcoming decades,
  and how will the American population adapt to these changes? Immigration, Cultural
  Identity, and Mental Health: Psycho-social Implications of the Reshaping of America[https://global.oup.com/academic/product/immigration-cultural-identity-and-mentalhealth-9780190661700?cc=us&lang=en&] outlines the various psychosocial impacts of
  immigration on cultural identity and its impact on mainstream culture. Thoroughly
  researched, this book examines how cultural identity relates to individual mental health
  and should be taken into account in mental health treatment.
  “ Further, the book aims to elucidate the importance of ethnicity and race in the
  psycho-therapeutic encounter and offers treatment recommendations on how to approach
  and discuss issues of ethnicity and race in psychotherapy. It also presents evidence-based
  psychological treatment interventions for immigrants and members of minority
  populations and shows how psychotherapy involves the creation of new, more adaptive
  narratives that can provide healing, personal growth, and relevance to the immigrant
  experience. Throughout, the authors provide clinical case examples to illustrate the
  concepts presented.”