☑️ Research confirms: the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) helps to achieve more accurate diagnoses among asylum seekers.

❎ 1 in 4 asylum seekers receives an incorrect psychiatric diagnosis.
⁉️ Why? Too little knowledge of culture and context leads to incorrect diagnostic assessments.

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💡 Our findings highlight how the CFI can foster a deeper, person-centered understanding of asylum seekers’ mental health, embracing uncertainty and moving beyond rigid medicalization.

📝 From 25 illness narratives we identified three key themes:
🔹 A burden of the past
🔹 A disenabling current reality
🔹 A personal position and individual experience

📢 Just published! Our latest study on asylum seekers' explanatory models explored through the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI).