[Working with young immigrants: towards a practice promoting culturally sensitive child psychiatry].

Transcultural psychiatry appears to be a precious tool to help us reflect on our ways of doing and thinking in complex clinical situations. This paper presents three concepts associated with the practice of transcultural psychiatry: continuity, multiplicity and articulation of different spaces. "The variable geometry frame" elaborated by Moro underlines the importance of mobility and dynamism of clinical work.

[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.