AACAP+CACAP Joint Annual Meeting
Program Schedule
Please note that this schedule is subject to change. The Program Book distributed at the Annual Meeting will have final information on dates, times, and speakers for each presentation.


Media Theatre 10 (open)
Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia Film Series

Kites and Monsters is a 25-minute ethnographic film that is part of the “Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia” film series. Kites and Monsters was filmed over the course of 13 years. It follows the development and cultural setting of a boy with Tourette’s disorder in a small village in Indonesia, and demonstrates how cultural practices support a positive psychosocial outcome and recovery for the child. Discussion focuses on culturally specific beliefs that support mental health recoveries and how cultural practices affect outcomes in neuropsychiatric disorders.
Friday, October 21, 2011: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM