Many mental health professionals have noted that racial and ethnic factors may act as
impediments to counseling. Misunderstandings that arise from cultural variations in verbal …

What communicative experiences are particular to African Americans? How do many African
Americans define themselves culturally? How do they perceive intracultural and intercultural …

This article examines the various types of life stresses that members of racial minority groups
experience. A model of the life stress process is presented, and several hypotheses are …

This article provides a brief review of empirical studies that have addressed the role of
acculturation across a variety of psychosocial variables (ie., family socialization, social …

While there has been a rapid growth in mental health research which focuses on the
Mexican American population, differences in theoretical formulations and consequent …

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

With the changing demographics occurring in the United States, psychology must make
substantive revisions in its curriculum, training, research, and practice. Without these …

Epidemiological studies indicate that Hispanics underutilize community mental health
facilities in proportion to their needs and often fail to benefit from traditional …

Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective focuses on family violence from four major ethnic
populations of the United States: Native American Indian, African American, Hispanic/Latino …

This study examined the relationship between a culture-compatible approach to mental
health service and utilization as measured by dropout and total number of outpatient visits …