Farooq Naeem
Farooq Naeem is a British academic who is known for his work on cultural adaptation of cognitive behaviour therapy. He is also the founder of PACT (Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists). He is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Education Farooq Naeem received his psychiatric training in the Merseyside training scheme, Liverpool, England. He later completed his MSc in research methods and Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, England. He completed his senior registrar training in Wessex. He is also a Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. In addition to CBT for common mental health disorders as he also received training in CBT for psychosis. Career and research work Naeem's primary work is in global mental health. He pioneered techniques for culturally adapting CBT. The model was initially presented as Southampton Adaptation Framework and has evolved over the years. These techniques were used to adapt CBT for various common and severe mental health problems in South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and China. Currently, the model is being used to adapt CBT for South Asians in Canada. More than 30 RCTs have used the adaptation methodology for a variety of problems and in different settings. His Ph.D.