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Cultural competency training has been proposed as a way to improve patient outcomes. There is a need for evidence showing that these interventions reduce health disparities. The objective was to conduct a systematic review addressing the effects of ...
- Cultural Assessment and Treatment of Psychiatric Patients
Cultural sensitivity remains a crucial aspect of diagnosing...
- Cultural Assessment and Treatment of Psychiatric Patients
Apr 20, 2024 · Cultural sensitivity remains a crucial aspect of diagnosing and treating psychiatric patients. There are many culture-specific syndromes and pharmacologic considerations that the diligent physician or provider should be aware of when encountering patients from different backgrounds.
- 2024/04/20
Mar 25, 2015 · A principal concern expressed by multiculturalist advocates is that mainstream mental health practices have typically originated out of the life experiences of Europeans and Euro-Americans (Kirmayer, 2007), and therefore harbor the potential for alienation, assimilation, or other associated harms for culturally distinctive ethnoracial minority p...
- Joseph P. Gone
- 2015
- Being Culturally Competent
- Building Cultural Concordance
- Tackling Language Barriers
- Institutionalising Cultural Competence
- Sustaining Cultural Competence
All participants, except two, supported the need to be culturally competent and to deliver culturally competent care. The two practitioners that disagreed said that the imperative to be culturally competent risked generalisation and stereotyping, and on these grounds rejected the need to be culturally competent at all. One participant, a psychologi...
All participants recognised that building rapport and a good therapeutic relationship with their patients was critical to delivering culturally competent care. This required careful navigation of numerous interpersonal and intercultural constituents, including managing patients’ prejudices. Many female participants spoke about male patients feeling...
Clear communication was integral to delivering culturally competent care and participants reported that being multilingual, having access to multilingual colleagues, and/or access and capacity to use interpreter services was fundamental to fulfilling their role. However, using language services was also seen as time consuming, labour intensive and ...
Participants said organisational attitude and a culture of valuing diversity needed to be developed in a top down manner, displayed from management, and encouraged among frontline workers including practitioners, administration, and support staff. The value placed on cultural diversity was seen to be reflected in its predominance within the organis...
Personal motivators and professional resilience were the cornerstones to developing and sustaining cultural competency. All participants were intrinsically motivated to work with immigrant patients and most felt a connection and empathised with immigrant patients. Positive experiences with different cultures during childhood, living or working over...
- Tooba Noor Mollah, Josefine Antoniades, Fathima Ijaza Lafeer, Bianca Brijnath
- 2018
Feb 9, 2020 · In this chapter, we review important cultural considerations in the treatment of depression for racial/ethnic minorities. We accomplish this by first reviewing the epidemiology of depression among different racial/ethnic groups in the USA, focusing on Latinx, Black...
- Esteban V. Cardemil, Néstor Noyola, Emily He
- 2020
Sep 17, 2018 · The tasks include 1) engaging and retaining the patient in treatment (and whenever possible, the patient’s support system or persons) and optimizing adherence to both medications and behavioral changes needed; 2) selecting, implementing, and tailoring the acute treatments to optimize depressive symptom control; 3) restoring day-to-day ...
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We find mixed support for the cultural adaptation of CBTs, but evidence for cultural sensitivity training of CBT clinicians is lacking, given a dearth of relevant trials. Based on the limited evidence thus far, we summarize three broad models for addressing cultural issues when providing CBT to diverse populations.
