Classroom drama therapy program for immigrant and refugee adolescents: a pilot study.

This evaluative study assesses the effects of a school drama therapy program for immigrant and refugee adolescents designed to prevent emotional and behavioral problems and to enhance school performance. The 9-week program involved 136 newcomers, aged 12 to 18, attending integration classes in a multiethnic school. Pretest and posttest data were collected from the students and their teachers.

[Working better in complex clinical situations: the experience of interinstitutional and transcultural seminars].

The new sociocultural realities of Québec society provide the opportunity to rethink practices in the field of mental health, particularly in regards to clinical assessments. Although remaining in part objective, clinical assessments are invariably strongly coloured by the sociocultural contexts where theoretical approaches and practical assessment tools are developed. Clinicians' institutional mandates also influence the ways in which they consider and proceed with the process of assessing.