There has been a growing emphasis on mental health services being culturally competent
especially when working with diverse populations. How do we assess whether or not a …

Developing cultural competence is a work in progress. It is continually influenced by the
provider's internal and external attributes and resources, such as the provider's sense of …

The authors utilized numerous documents created by advisory groups, expert panels and
multicultural focus groups to develop performance measures for assessing the cultural …

Cultural competence is increasingly recognized as an essential component of effective
mental health care delivery to address diversity and equity issues. Drawing from the …

Cultural competence assessments are recognized as useful strategies to guide
organizations interested in becoming more culturally competent. Consequently, many …

This article presents a conceptual model of organizational cultural competence for use in
mental health services that resulted from a comprehensive review of the research literature …

Cultural competence is defined as a respect for and understanding of diverse ethnic and
cultural groups, their histories, traditions, beliefs, and value systems. According to a recent …

This article describes existing problems with cultural competence definitions and examines
new developments in cultural competence theory and practices that have the capacity to …

The rapid growth in Behavioral Managed Care Organizations has led to increasing concern
about the future availability of culturally competent mental health services for ethnic …

The purpose of this study was to assess the level of organizational readiness of community
mental health centers (CMHCs) to provide culturally competent services to racial and ethnic …