Curriculum Year: 2025-26
Presented for CME credit (D2L): October 1-31, 2025
Reposted on CPD website: November 2025
Expiry Date: June 30, 2028
Est Time: 35 min
Self-Learning Hours: 1
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be equipped to:
- Identify key mental health challenges that are specific to South Asians in Canada, including the impact of migration and assimilation.
- Describe how Western medical models of mental health may conflict with collectivist cultural perspectives and assess the impact of these misalignments on client engagement and treatment effectiveness.
- Explain the impact of intergenerational trauma on South Asian youth and adults.
- Recognize common health care provider biases and assumptions that arise when working with South Asian clients, and develop strategies to mitigate them.
- Apply a culturally informed, holistic and trauma-based approach to treatment using real-life case studies and examples.
- Distinguish and adapt core concepts of cultural competency to work effectively with other collectivist cultures beyond the South Asian community
