Cultural Context Important in Psychiatric Diagnosis, Says Bolivar Award Winner
 “There is an increasing need to be sure culture and context are included in criteria for disorders,” said Glorisa Canino, Ph.D., as she accepted APA’s Simón Bolívar award at APA’s 2013 annual meeting. The award is given annually to honor a prominent advocate for Hispanics and was designed to inform the APA membership about the mental health problems and goals of Hispanics. Canino is the director of the Behavioral Sciences Research Institute at the University of Puerto Rico. Canino discussed the ways in which DSM-5 addresses culture and context. “It is our responsibility to test applicability of the new nosology” as it relates to Latino culture, she said. Canino’s research career has focused on evaluating the mental health of Latinos in a wide variety of communities. Canino’s brother, Ian Canino, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a past winner of APA’s Simón Bolívar award and was present for Glorisa Canino’s award presentation. To watch a video of Canino discussing the important of cultural context in greater depth, click here.
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