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Understanding cultural identity in intervention and assessment

Title
  1. Understanding cultural identity in intervention and assessment / Richard H. Dana.
Published by
  1. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©1998.
Author
  1. Dana, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1927-

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Description
  1. xv, 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "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."--Jacket.
Series statement
  1. Multicultural aspects of counseling series ; v. 9
Uniform title
  1. Multicultural aspects of counseling series ; v. 9.
Subject
  1. Minorities > Mental health services > United States
  2. Psychiatry, Transcultural > United States
  3. Cross-cultural counseling > United States
  4. Mental health services
  5. Manners and customs
  6. Mental Health Services
  7. Minority Groups > psychology
  8. Cultural Characteristics
  9. customs (social concepts)
  10. 77.84 psychotherapy: other
  11. Mental health services
  12. Manners and customs
  13. Cross-cultural counseling
  14. Minorities > Mental health services
  15. Psychiatry, Transcultural
  16. Culturele identiteit
  17. Cross-culturele psychologie
  18. Diagnostiek
  19. Psychotherapie
  20. United States
Contents
  1. 1. Mental Health Services and Multicultural Populations -- 2. Why Is It So Difficult to Provide Quality Care for Multicultural Populations? -- 3. Quality Care for Multicultural Populations -- 4. Identities of Clients and Providers -- 5. African Americans -- 6. American Indians/Alaska Natives -- 7. Asians and Asian Americans -- 8. Hispanic Americans/Latinos -- 9. Epilogue.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-242) and index.