G Eric Jarvis
Biographic Data
| ID | 658861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Eric Jarvis |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Jarvis |
| SIGNATURE | JARVIS G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0508-6689 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Guidance on Community-Based Mental Health Support for Black Youth in Canada
Evidence indicates disparities in mental health outcomes among Black youth compared to other racial and ethnic groups. These disparities may be related to gaps in the quality of mental health services and inadequate culturally safe practices, which hinder the ability to appropriately support the mental health needs of Black youth. This study aimed to develop a guidance document with recommendations for the delivery of mental health services for B…
The Demise of Scientific Medicine? Responding to the Challenge of Populist Medicine and Institutional Mistrust
The U.S. federal government has undertaken an unprecedented dismantling of core institutions related to health research, policy, and services.Beyond politicizing issues of health and social welfare, these actions have revealed conflicting positions about what counts as evidence for health and what knowledge should be accepted as science.After President Trump signed executive orders to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion, "woke gender ideology," …
Respecting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are foundational values for cultural psychiatry. The current assault on DEI in the United States and other countries represents a direct challenge to the scientific, ethical, and clinical commitments that have guided progress in mental health over recent decades. This paper examines the history, rationale, and successes of DEI frameworks in health care and psychiatry, discusses legitimate critiques, document…
Barriers and facilitators towards recovery among Afro-Caribbean mental health service users in Canada
We examined experiences among Afro-Caribbean mental health service users in Canada, exploring (i) barriers and facilitators towards recovery; (ii) experiences within the official health care system; and (iii) utilisation of alternative treatments and remedies. We conducted 18 in-depth interviews with Afro-Caribbean service users, and subsequent thematic analysis revealed three overlapping themes. First, participants pointed to their Christian fai…
Cultural variations in psychosis
This article introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry dedicated to understanding the role of culture in the expression and treatment of psychotic symptoms. While many clinicians and researchers view psychotic disorders as brain diseases firmly rooted in neurological processes and requiring medical treatments to resolve, the papers in this issue propose something different: that psychotic symptoms are refracted through the lens of c…
Religion and spirituality in cultural psychiatry
Religion is central to the theory and practice of cultural psychiatry because it is an important determinant of health, wellness and resilience, and it shapes illness experience, coping and recovery. Religious identity and practice can also result in stressful situations and predicaments that lead to mental health problems. This editorial essay introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry on religion and spirituality and outlines key c…
‘It Just Feels Like an Invasion’
Studies from the United States and United Kingdom have shown that Black patients are disproportionately diagnosed with psychosis and have received excess coercive medical intervention. There has been little discussion of this topic in Canada, and of how coercive interventions may have influenced Black patient attitudes towards mental health services. To address these issues, semi-structured interviews were administered to five Black men with firs…
Documenting language barriers in a general hospital psychiatry setting
Previous research has demonstrated that without the use of professional interpreters, language barriers interfere with patient care. The literature recommends documenting the presence of language barriers in medical charts. To our knowledge, this mixed methods study is the first to examine language documentation practices in a Canadian inpatient psychiatry setting. The research team interviewed 122 patients admitted to a tertiary care psychiatry …
Global migration
Global migration is expected to continue to increase as climate change, conflict and economic disparities continue to challenge peoples' lives. The political response to migration is a social determinant of mental health. Despite the potential benefits of migration, many migrants and refugees face significant challenges after they resettle. The papers collected in this thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry explore the experience of migration…
Gender-based violence among refugee women referred to a Cultural Consultation Service in Montreal
Gender-based violence (GBV) among female refugees/asylum seekers is a major underreported/understudied psychosocial issue. The aims of this study were: to describe the proportion of GBV-related experiences among female refugees/asylum seekers referred to a Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) in Montreal; to describe their sociodemographic and clinical characteristics; and to compare these characteristics among women who make GBV their principal r…
Comment les services d’intervention précoce pour la psychose peuvent-ils mieux servir les migrants, les minorités ethniques et les populations autochtones
Objectives To synthesize the available epidemiological and clinical evidence relevant to the mental health care of migrant, ethnic minority and Indigenous populations in the context of early psychosis. Methods This study provides a narrative review of the literature on psychosis in these populations, including issues related to the provision of early intervention services for psychosis. Results Migrant status has long been reported as a significa…
Refugee mental health and human rights
This article introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry that presents recent work that deepens our understanding of the refugee experience-from the forces of displacement, through the trajectory of migration, to the challenges of resettlement. Mental health research on refugees and asylum seekers has burgeoned over the past two decades with epidemiological studies, accounts of the lived experience, new conceptual frameworks, and adva…
Raspail, racism, and migration
Jean Raspail's controversial 1973 novel The camp of the saints predicts mass migration to Europe that will destroy European civilization. Decades later, the book has accurately predicted the hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving in Europe annually, prompting a continent-wide crisis. From Lesbos and Lampedusa to the Canary Islands and Calais, no one seems to know how to stem the flow of humanity. Borders are being resurrected, despite Schenge…
Cultural Consultation in Context
The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5
While social science research has demonstrated the importance of culture in shaping psychiatric illness, clinical methods for assessing the cultural dimensions of illness have not been adopted as part of routine care. Reasons for limited integration include the impression that attention to culture requires specialized skills, is only relevant to a subset of patients from unfamiliar backgrounds, and takes too much time to be useful. The DSM-5 Cult…
Reported immigration and medical coercion among immigrants referred to a cultural consultation service
Members of visible minorities are commonly targets of social coercion related to immigration and medical measures. Social coercion is associated with poor mental health outcomes and mistrust of medical services. This study will determine if Afro-Canadian immigrants referred to a Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) in Montreal report more or less medical and immigration coercion compared with other ethnic minorities. We reviewed the charts of 729 …
Transatlantic variation in the attributed etiology of psychosis
BACKGROUND: Differences in transatlantic perception of psychosis have been reported in the historical psychiatric literature. AIMS: This study aims to determine if articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) are more likely to attribute biological factors to the etiology of psychosis than those of the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP). METHODS: A systematic MEDLINE search for articles in the AJP and BJP from 2005 to 2007 identified 360…
Changing psychiatric perception of African Americans with psychosis
In the years before the American Civil War, medical observers deemed psychosis to be rare in slaves, but common in free blacks of the North. After 1865, the prevailing psychiatric perception of African Americans was that psychosis was increasing at an alarming rate. Reasons for the increasing rates were initially ascribed to the effects of emancipation, but as researchers reported rates of psychosis to be on the rise through the first half of the…
Religious Practice and Psychological Distress
The present study examined the relationship between religious practice and psychological distress in a culturally diverse urban population to explore how religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, and immigrant status affect this relationship. Data were drawn from a study of health care utilization in Montreal. A stratified community sample of 1485 yielded four religious groups: Protestant (n = 205), Catholic (813), Jewish (201), and Buddhist (150…
Religious Practice and Psychological Distress
The present study examined the relationship between religious practice and psychological distress in a culturally diverse urban population to explore how religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, and immigrant status affect this relationship. Data were drawn from a study of health care utilization in Montreal. A stratified community sample of 1485 yielded four religious groups: Protestant (n = 205), Catholic (813), Jewish (201), and Buddhist (150…
The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5
While social science research has demonstrated the importance of culture in shaping psychiatric illness, clinical methods for assessing the cultural dimensions of illness have not been adopted as part of routine care. Reasons for limited integration include the impression that attention to culture requires specialized skills, is only relevant to a subset of patients from unfamiliar backgrounds, and takes too much time to be useful. The DSM-5 Cult…
Refugee mental health and human rights
This article introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry that presents recent work that deepens our understanding of the refugee experience-from the forces of displacement, through the trajectory of migration, to the challenges of resettlement. Mental health research on refugees and asylum seekers has burgeoned over the past two decades with epidemiological studies, accounts of the lived experience, new conceptual frameworks, and adva…
Changing psychiatric perception of African Americans with psychosis
In the years before the American Civil War, medical observers deemed psychosis to be rare in slaves, but common in free blacks of the North. After 1865, the prevailing psychiatric perception of African Americans was that psychosis was increasing at an alarming rate. Reasons for the increasing rates were initially ascribed to the effects of emancipation, but as researchers reported rates of psychosis to be on the rise through the first half of the…
Raspail, racism, and migration
Jean Raspail's controversial 1973 novel The camp of the saints predicts mass migration to Europe that will destroy European civilization. Decades later, the book has accurately predicted the hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving in Europe annually, prompting a continent-wide crisis. From Lesbos and Lampedusa to the Canary Islands and Calais, no one seems to know how to stem the flow of humanity. Borders are being resurrected, despite Schenge…
Reported immigration and medical coercion among immigrants referred to a cultural consultation service
Members of visible minorities are commonly targets of social coercion related to immigration and medical measures. Social coercion is associated with poor mental health outcomes and mistrust of medical services. This study will determine if Afro-Canadian immigrants referred to a Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) in Montreal report more or less medical and immigration coercion compared with other ethnic minorities. We reviewed the charts of 729 …
Religion and spirituality in cultural psychiatry
Religion is central to the theory and practice of cultural psychiatry because it is an important determinant of health, wellness and resilience, and it shapes illness experience, coping and recovery. Religious identity and practice can also result in stressful situations and predicaments that lead to mental health problems. This editorial essay introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry on religion and spirituality and outlines key c…
Gender-based violence among refugee women referred to a Cultural Consultation Service in Montreal
Gender-based violence (GBV) among female refugees/asylum seekers is a major underreported/understudied psychosocial issue. The aims of this study were: to describe the proportion of GBV-related experiences among female refugees/asylum seekers referred to a Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) in Montreal; to describe their sociodemographic and clinical characteristics; and to compare these characteristics among women who make GBV their principal r…
Religious Practice and Psychological Distress
The present study examined the relationship between religious practice and psychological distress in a culturally diverse urban population to explore how religious affiliation, gender, ethnicity, and immigrant status affect this relationship. Data were drawn from a study of health care utilization in Montreal. A stratified community sample of 1485 yielded four religious groups: Protestant (n = 205), Catholic (813), Jewish (201), and Buddhist (150…
Changing psychiatric perception of African Americans with psychosis
In the years before the American Civil War, medical observers deemed psychosis to be rare in slaves, but common in free blacks of the North. After 1865, the prevailing psychiatric perception of African Americans was that psychosis was increasing at an alarming rate. Reasons for the increasing rates were initially ascribed to the effects of emancipation, but as researchers reported rates of psychosis to be on the rise through the first half of the…
Transatlantic variation in the attributed etiology of psychosis
BACKGROUND: Differences in transatlantic perception of psychosis have been reported in the historical psychiatric literature. AIMS: This study aims to determine if articles in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) are more likely to attribute biological factors to the etiology of psychosis than those of the British Journal of Psychiatry (BJP). METHODS: A systematic MEDLINE search for articles in the AJP and BJP from 2005 to 2007 identified 360…
Reported immigration and medical coercion among immigrants referred to a cultural consultation service
Members of visible minorities are commonly targets of social coercion related to immigration and medical measures. Social coercion is associated with poor mental health outcomes and mistrust of medical services. This study will determine if Afro-Canadian immigrants referred to a Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) in Montreal report more or less medical and immigration coercion compared with other ethnic minorities. We reviewed the charts of 729 …
Cultural Consultation in Context
The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5
While social science research has demonstrated the importance of culture in shaping psychiatric illness, clinical methods for assessing the cultural dimensions of illness have not been adopted as part of routine care. Reasons for limited integration include the impression that attention to culture requires specialized skills, is only relevant to a subset of patients from unfamiliar backgrounds, and takes too much time to be useful. The DSM-5 Cult…
Comment les services d’intervention précoce pour la psychose peuvent-ils mieux servir les migrants, les minorités ethniques et les populations autochtones
Objectives To synthesize the available epidemiological and clinical evidence relevant to the mental health care of migrant, ethnic minority and Indigenous populations in the context of early psychosis. Methods This study provides a narrative review of the literature on psychosis in these populations, including issues related to the provision of early intervention services for psychosis. Results Migrant status has long been reported as a significa…
Refugee mental health and human rights
This article introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry that presents recent work that deepens our understanding of the refugee experience-from the forces of displacement, through the trajectory of migration, to the challenges of resettlement. Mental health research on refugees and asylum seekers has burgeoned over the past two decades with epidemiological studies, accounts of the lived experience, new conceptual frameworks, and adva…
Raspail, racism, and migration
Jean Raspail's controversial 1973 novel The camp of the saints predicts mass migration to Europe that will destroy European civilization. Decades later, the book has accurately predicted the hundreds of thousands of refugees arriving in Europe annually, prompting a continent-wide crisis. From Lesbos and Lampedusa to the Canary Islands and Calais, no one seems to know how to stem the flow of humanity. Borders are being resurrected, despite Schenge…
Gender-based violence among refugee women referred to a Cultural Consultation Service in Montreal
Gender-based violence (GBV) among female refugees/asylum seekers is a major underreported/understudied psychosocial issue. The aims of this study were: to describe the proportion of GBV-related experiences among female refugees/asylum seekers referred to a Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) in Montreal; to describe their sociodemographic and clinical characteristics; and to compare these characteristics among women who make GBV their principal r…
‘It Just Feels Like an Invasion’
Studies from the United States and United Kingdom have shown that Black patients are disproportionately diagnosed with psychosis and have received excess coercive medical intervention. There has been little discussion of this topic in Canada, and of how coercive interventions may have influenced Black patient attitudes towards mental health services. To address these issues, semi-structured interviews were administered to five Black men with firs…
Documenting language barriers in a general hospital psychiatry setting
Previous research has demonstrated that without the use of professional interpreters, language barriers interfere with patient care. The literature recommends documenting the presence of language barriers in medical charts. To our knowledge, this mixed methods study is the first to examine language documentation practices in a Canadian inpatient psychiatry setting. The research team interviewed 122 patients admitted to a tertiary care psychiatry …
Global migration
Global migration is expected to continue to increase as climate change, conflict and economic disparities continue to challenge peoples' lives. The political response to migration is a social determinant of mental health. Despite the potential benefits of migration, many migrants and refugees face significant challenges after they resettle. The papers collected in this thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry explore the experience of migration…
Barriers and facilitators towards recovery among Afro-Caribbean mental health service users in Canada
We examined experiences among Afro-Caribbean mental health service users in Canada, exploring (i) barriers and facilitators towards recovery; (ii) experiences within the official health care system; and (iii) utilisation of alternative treatments and remedies. We conducted 18 in-depth interviews with Afro-Caribbean service users, and subsequent thematic analysis revealed three overlapping themes. First, participants pointed to their Christian fai…
Cultural variations in psychosis
This article introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry dedicated to understanding the role of culture in the expression and treatment of psychotic symptoms. While many clinicians and researchers view psychotic disorders as brain diseases firmly rooted in neurological processes and requiring medical treatments to resolve, the papers in this issue propose something different: that psychotic symptoms are refracted through the lens of c…
Religion and spirituality in cultural psychiatry
Religion is central to the theory and practice of cultural psychiatry because it is an important determinant of health, wellness and resilience, and it shapes illness experience, coping and recovery. Religious identity and practice can also result in stressful situations and predicaments that lead to mental health problems. This editorial essay introduces a thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry on religion and spirituality and outlines key c…
Guidance on Community-Based Mental Health Support for Black Youth in Canada
Evidence indicates disparities in mental health outcomes among Black youth compared to other racial and ethnic groups. These disparities may be related to gaps in the quality of mental health services and inadequate culturally safe practices, which hinder the ability to appropriately support the mental health needs of Black youth. This study aimed to develop a guidance document with recommendations for the delivery of mental health services for B…
The Demise of Scientific Medicine? Responding to the Challenge of Populist Medicine and Institutional Mistrust
The U.S. federal government has undertaken an unprecedented dismantling of core institutions related to health research, policy, and services.Beyond politicizing issues of health and social welfare, these actions have revealed conflicting positions about what counts as evidence for health and what knowledge should be accepted as science.After President Trump signed executive orders to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion, "woke gender ideology," …
Respecting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are foundational values for cultural psychiatry. The current assault on DEI in the United States and other countries represents a direct challenge to the scientific, ethical, and clinical commitments that have guided progress in mental health over recent decades. This paper examines the history, rationale, and successes of DEI frameworks in health care and psychiatry, discusses legitimate critiques, document…
Mental Health Treatment and Access (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Mental health (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works)