Understanding Cultural Identity in Intervention and Assessment

Richard H. Dana

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN:
  9780761903642
  9780761903635
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781452250366
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 Assessment centers on this dilemma. This text for multicultural courses in counseling, psychotherapy, clinical psychology and social work begins with a description of the existing societal context for mental health services in the United States and the limitations of available services for multicultural populations. It documents the cultural competence a practitioner needs to provide adequate, credible, and potentially beneficial services to diverse clientele. It presents a model for effective culture-specific services that emphasizes the description and understanding of cultural/racial identity and the use of this information to develop cultural formulations to increase the accuracy of diagnoses. To provide examples of this model, the author devotes four chapters to a discussion of mental health services for a variety of domestic groups: African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans. A valuable supplement to a variety of courses, Understanding Cultural Identity in Intervention and Assessment will enhance studentsÆ understanding of multicultural mental health issues in fields such as clinical/counseling psychology, multicultural psychology, educational psychology, social work, health services, and ethnic studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Series Editor's Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - Mental Health Services and Multicultural Populations
• Clinical Psychology Training
• Community Mental Health
• Practitioner-Scholar, Community, and Counseling Psychology Training
• Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)
• Societal Transformation by Immigration, Outmarriage, and Segregation
• Managed Care for Multicultural Populations
• Prologue
• Chapter 2 - Why is it so Difficult to Provide Quality Care for Multicultural Populations?
• Worldview and Identity
• Acculturation
• Racism as Bias
• Ethnocentrism and Ethnorelativism
• Research Beliefs
• Anglo American Standards
• Underuse of Services
• Chapter 3 - Quality Care for Multicultural Populations
• Becoming a Provider
• Ethical Standards
• Problems Requiring Competent Care
• Multicultural Assessment Prerequisitites
• Intervention Model
• Training and Evaluation
• Dimensions of Quality Care
• Chapter 4 - Identities of Clients and Providers
• Clients as Cultural Beings
• Anglo American Provider Worldview and Identity Development
• Clients and Providers
• Chapter 5 - African Americans
• Use of Services, Providers, and Mainstream or Culture-Specific Programs
• Health and Illness Beliefs
• Social Class
• Racial Identity and Cultural Identity
• Problems-in-Living, Stress and Oppression, Culture-General Disorders, and Culture-Bound Disorders
• Interventions
• Chapter 6 - American Indians/Alaska Natives
• Psychopathology, Culture-Bound Disorders, and Problems-in-Living
• Culture-General Interventions
• Combined Interventions
• Culture-Specific Interventions
• Traditional Healing Practices
• A Model for Culturally Competent Intervention
• Chapter 7 - Asians and Asian Americans
• Chinese and Chinese Americans
• Japanese and Japanese Americans
• Southeast Asians and Southeast Asian Americans
• Chapter 8 - Hispanic Americans/Latinos
• Health/Illness Beliefs
• Interventions in Selected Countries of Origin
• Symptoms, Psychopathologies, Problems-in-Living, and Culture-Bound Disorders
• Acculturation and Psychopathology
• Culture-General Interventions
• Combined Approaches
• Culture-Specific Interventions and Healing Practices
• Culture-Specific Service-Delivery Settings
• Chapter 9 - Epilogue
• References
• Index
• About the Author