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

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