Open Forum nicity, culture, or language proficiency”(7). Likewise,“the idea of cultural
competency is an explicit statement that one-size-fits-all health care cannot meet the needs …

Cultural competence, as a tool to overcome disparities in mental healthcare to ethnic
minorities, is facing unprecedented challenges. Providers are turning to cultural competence …

The concept of culture as an analytic concept has increasingly been questioned by social
scientists, just as health care institutions and clinicians have increasingly routinized …

In recent years, cultural competence has become a popular term for a variety of strategies to
address the challenge of cultural diversity in mental health services. This issue of …

As high-profile reviews have appeared and international interest has grown, sophisticated
studies of the US population continue to document racial and ethnic disparities in initiation of …

Building on their previous works about cultural competency in clinical areas and in
psychotherapy, the editors have created in this volume an exceptional and entirely new …

Modern providers are expected to be “culturally competent,” providing effective care to
patients of cultures different than their own. Cultural competence impacts every facet of …

Cultural competence training is mandatory in the United States of America to alleviate
minority health disparities though few studies have examined perceptions across …

Racial and ethnic minorities in the United States are less likely to receive treatment for
psychiatric disorders than are White Americans. For two decades, clinicians and researchers …

Racial and ethnic disparities are disturbing facets of the American healthcare system that
document the reality of unequal treatment. Research consistently shows that patients of …