Understanding cultural identity in intervention and assessment

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Understanding cultural identity in intervention and assessment

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 also presents a model for effective culture-specific services that emphasizes description and understanding of cultural/racial identity and the use of this information to develop cultural formulations that will 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 cultural/racial groups: African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans.

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Publisher
Sage Publications
Language
English
Pages
256

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-242) and index.

Published in
Thousand Oaks
Series
Multicultural aspects of counseling series ;, v. 9

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.2/089/00973
Library of Congress
RC451.5.A2 D36 1998, RC451.5.A2D36 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 256 p. :
Number of pages
256

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL697686M
ISBN 10
0761903631, 076190364X
LCCN
97045247
OCLC/WorldCat
37836637
Goodreads
3810747
579297

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2739928W

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