The interaction of culture and mental illness is the focus of the Clinical Manual of Cultural
Psychiatry, which is designed to help mental health clinicians become culturally competent …

This article highlights institutional inequalities and cultural insensitivities that contribute to
African American underutilization of mental health care service systems. The paper …

Recent reports indicate that the quality of care provided to immigrant and ethnic minority
patients is not at the same level as that provided to majority group patients. Although the …

Objectives The authors summarize the pedagogical approaches and curriculum used in the
training of clinicians in cultural psychiatry at the Division of Social and Transcultural …

Why is it so difficult to provide quality mental health care for multicultural populations? How
can quality care be achieved? Understanding Cultural Identity in Intervention and …

The increasing diversity of America requires a workforce that is able to serve the mental
health needs of individuals from multiple backgrounds, with a culturally proficient, inclusive …

Psychiatry has always been influenced by culture. The cultural identity of both providers and
consumers, their cultural perceptions of mental illness and its treatment, their psychosocial …

Cultural Competence in Health Care is a short, readable book written by 2 professors of
psychiatry at the University of Hawaii Medical School for health care providers and mental …

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 …

Indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees and racialized groups, as well as some long-
established ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious communities, experience inequities in …