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An intersectoral collaboration model: The role of cultural consultation in linking mental health services and social assistance in Bologna, Italy

A model of cross-sector collaboration: the role of cultural consultation in connecting mental health services and social welfare in bologna, italy

The Bologna Cultural Consultation Service is described as a sustainable and replicable model that provides culturally responsive mental health care to asylum seekers and refugees, drawing on ten years of experience.

The aim of the presentation is to describe a service model and its contribution over its first ten years, established in response to the difficulties local systems face in implementing good practices tailored to refugees and asylum seekers, despite international recommendations on mental health care for this population. Established in 2015 and inspired by McGill University's Cultural Consultation Service (CCS) model, the Bologna CCS provides psychiatric and psychological care to more than two thousand asylum seekers and refugees accommodated in the region. The service operates within the Bologna Social Services and International Protection Service; it conducts psychiatric and psychological assessments, training activities, clinical case supervision, and group-based clinical activities, and is embedded in a network comprising the Bologna Department of Mental Health, the University of Bologna, and third-sector organizations. The presentation will outline the clinical profiles and care pathways of the asylum seekers and refugees assessed, drawing on data on patients followed by the CCS, their psychiatric diagnoses, and the treatments provided. In conclusion, the Bologna CCS is described as a sustainable and replicable model of culturally responsive care that bridges the gap between mainstream mental health services and the specific needs of asylum seekers and refugees, with its ten years of experience contributing to the development of transcultural mental health practice.

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