In recent years, cultural competence has become a popular term for a variety of strategies to
address the challenge of cultural diversity in mental health services. This issue of …

The concept of culture as an analytic concept has increasingly been questioned by social
scientists, just as health care institutions and clinicians have increasingly routinized …

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

Cultural competence is increasingly recognized as an essential component of effective
mental health care delivery to address diversity and equity issues. Drawing from the …

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 …

Building on their previous works about cultural competency in clinical areas and in
psychotherapy, the editors have created in this volume an exceptional and entirely new …

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 …

Accessible summary Lack of cultural competence in care contributes to poor experiences
and outcomes from care for migrants and racial and ethnic minorities. As a result, health and …

Cultural psychiatry deals with the impact of culture on causation, perpetuation and treatment
of patients suffering with mental illness. The role of culture in mental illness is increasingly …

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