Objectives: This paper reports results from the evaluation of a cultural consultation service
(CCS) for mental health practitioners and primary care clinicians. The service was designed …

The growing cultural pluralism of US society requires clinicians to examine the impact of
cultural factors on psychiatric illness, including on symptom presentation and help-seeking …

African Americans have made consistent progress toward first-class citizenship since 1965.
Nonetheless, mental health services for this population have been biased, incomplete, and …

The dual influence of culturally sensitive therapies (CSTs) and empirically supported
treatments (ESTs) on clinical practitioners has grown quickly in the United States. While CST …

Some psychotherapists produce better outcomes than others (Crits-Christoph & Mintz, 1991;
Kraus, Castonguay, Boswell, Nordberg, & Hayes, 2011), although it has not been …

As the Latino population in the United States grows, it is imperative to attend to the
appropriateness of the mental health care that is being provided to its members. Latinos …

Background Racial and ethnic disparities in the United States exist along the entire
continuum of mental health care, from access and use of services to the quality and …

Increasingly, psychologists are becoming aware of sensitivity needs with respect to treating
patients from differing cultures. Culture can play an important role both in what a patient …

Influences on underuse of mental health services by the urban, low-income Latino subgroup
are analyzed through a systems-cultural framework. Results of a review of over 100 applied …

Cultural competency in the delivery of mental health services has gained considerable
momentum. This momentum has been accompanied by questions about the meaning …