“…International literature demonstrates how trained interpreters represent a clear advantage in mental health delivery by meeting the patients’ needs and improving their ability to understand, following (Ramirez, 2003), and coconstructing the treatment. By providing reliable health status assessments (Pérez-Stable et al, 1997), allowing timely treatment, and reducing medical nomadism (going from one health care practitioner to another; Brisset et al, 2013; Divi et al, 2007; Leanza et al, 2013), resorting to trained interpreters overall helps reduce health care costs (Bischoff et al, 2003; Delizée et al, 2019). Today, many displaced people and refugees affirm that it is precisely in the clinical encounter with trained interpreters that they finally felt welcomed with dignity and recognized as a person (Pestre, 2014).…”