Presented by Dr. Felicia Wong, Dr. Jacqueline Smith, Dr. Daniel Fallon and Dr. Farha Abbasi.

1. Workshop Chair: Felicia Kuo Wong, Presenters: Jacqueline N. Smith, Daniel Fallon, Farha Abbasi. SSPC Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada Friday, April 30, 2010.

9. Jacqueline N. Smith, MD PGY 5, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

20. Daniel Fallon, MD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow University of Massachusetts Medical School CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC MATCHING: A SPANISH SPEAKING RESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE

30. FARHA ABBASI, MD Adult Psychiatry Resident University of Michigan “ HOW DO YOU DANCE WITH AN ELEPHANT?”: Cultural pairing of therapist and the patient

33. 38 year old Chinese married, college educated, female (from Beijing) with paranoid schizophrenia was discharged from our inpatient unit June 2008. Referred to me for psychotherapy, June 2008-February 2009 (returned to China). At our last session, I asked her how she felt about our ethnic and language (Mandarin) matching. She said….

34. “ It guess it was easier that we could speak in Mandarin (she did speak some English), and I think it helped that you somewhat understand the Chinese culture, but if my doctor was nice, I would see him or her regardless of language, or race/ethnicity. That doesn’t matter to me. What matters to me and what helped me, is that you listened, and that you cared.”

39. FARHA ABBASI, MD Adult Psychiatry Resident Michigan State University “ HOW DO YOU DANCE WITH AN ELEPHANT?”: Cultural pairing of therapist and the patient