There is a pressing need to enhance the availability and quality of mental health services
provided to persons from historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups. Many previous …

The need for cultural competence and the need for evidence-based practice in mental
health services are major issues in contemporary discourse, especially in the psychological …

The movement to establish uniform standards for the identification of empirically supported
treatments (EST) has contributed to an impressive growth in the number of treatments …

Forehand and Kotchick (1996) issued a wake-up call to the field to develop culturally
responsive interventions. Since that time, 11 meta-analyses on culturally adapted …

Recent meta-analyses and reviews have showed that culturally adapted mental health
interventions are more effective for racial and ethnic minorities than traditional unadapted …

Objective: Evidence demonstrating treatment efficacy for ethnic minorities has grown in
recent years; however, Asian Americans (ie, of East Asian or Southeast Asian heritage) are …

Three broad approaches to the development of culturally sensitive therapy programs were
uncovered in the mental health literature on Hispanic populations: first, rendering traditional …

In recent years, there has been a steadily increasing recognition of the need to improve the
cultural competence of services and cultural adaptation of interventions so that every …

Clinicians and researchers have pointed to the need for culturally sensitive mental health
interventions. Yet it has not been determined if the inclusion of cultural elements affects the …

Health care practitioners are encouraged to “know the cultures” of the multicultural client
population they are serving in the United States. The premise behind this injunction is that …