Describes an ethnic minority/refugee mental health program in a community mental health
center that serves a small multicultural population. Examples illustrate how staff members …

This article addresses three areas for developing culturally responsive rehabilitative
programs that serve African American populations: accurate assessment practices, culturally …

Persistent racial and ethnic disparities in access and utilization of behavioral health services
have highlighted the need for cultural competence among providers. In response, many …

Many behavioral health providers are now being trained in cultural competence but still little
is known about the impact of these trainings on persons-in-recovery. This study reports on …

In 1997, Maryland implemented a new managed care mental health system. Consumer
satisfaction, evaluation and cultural competency were considered high priorities for the new …

A statewide data collection effort was implemented to assess the validity and reliability of a
52-item consumer assessment instrument of the cultural competency mental health …

An assessment-intervention model was designed to illustrate how assessment research and
practice can move in the direction of cultural competence. This model was initially proposed …

Cultural competency practices have been widely adopted in the mental health field because
of the disparities in the quality of services delivered to ethnic minority groups. In this review …

The author would like to offer a special acknowledgement to Rick Ybarra, director of the
Office of Multicultural Services at the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental …

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