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 …

Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities offers concrete guidelines and evidence-
based best practices for addressing racial inequities and biases in clinical care. Perhaps …

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

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 …

Black-white disparities in mental healthcare persist, despite efforts to eliminate them via
culturally competent care. To gain insight into how providers implement culturally competent …

Open Forum been known to be culturally biased in their criteria (13). For example, African
Americans often score higher on measures of mistrust and paranoia, which, if not …

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 …

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 …

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

Historically, the mental health system has not effectively addressed the needs of culturally
and linguistically diverse individuals (President's New Freedom Commission on Mental …