How can quality mental health care be provided for multicultural populations? This volume explores this question by focusing on mental health services in the United States for a variety of populations, including African Americans, Native Americans and Chinese Americans.

How can quality mental health care be provided for multicultural populations? This volume explores this question by focusing on mental health services in the United States for a variety of populations, including African Americans, Native Americans and Chinese Americans.

Ethnic minority children now comprise over 75 percent of students in 100 of the largest cities in the United States. However, these students have not been given equal access to, nor benefited from, the contemporary mental health system as have their non-minority peers. "TEMAS "("Tell-Me-A-Story) Assessment in Multicultural Societies "examines the health/mental care system in which professional service providers, including psychologists, labor to offer quality care for youth in the United States. The authors ardently support the use of the TEMAS assessment instrument as a useful tool for...

Psychologists throughout the world are being asked to assess an increasingly diverse clientele: immigrants, refugees, second and third generations still influenced by different cultures and languages, and indigenous peoples now moving towards the mainstream. Most are ill-equipped by training and experience to understand, assess, and subsequently treat such clients competently and ethically. Virtually all agree on the need for culture-sensitive assessment, but it has proven difficult to provide adequate services, despite good intentions and funding. Too often, clients who may have different...

CBMCS Participant's Workbook: Includes exercises, group activities, and areas for reflection that follow along with the training modules. Each workbook also includes the CBMCS Scale a 21-item practitioner self-report, empirically based scale, which was honed from five respected assessment. This unique scale provides the foundation for this extensive training program.

Features a wellspring of seminal research studies critical to understanding the complex issues surrounding mental health care and diversity. Providing a wealth of in-depth research into delivering culturally competent care, this rich anthology examines general issues in multicultural counseling competence training; ethnic minority intervention and treatment research; and sociocultural diversities.

Key Features and Benefits

• Features carefully selected research articles that are accessible to and practical for mental health practitioners and students...

Cultural competence is more than an admirable goal: it is an essential skill set for mental health professionals working in a society marked by crisis and trauma. This text brings a vital perspective and practical understanding to clinical, counseling, and school psychologists, as well as to graduate students entering these fields.

Describing a training model for professional education and practice in the US with minority groups, indigenous populations, immigrants, and refugees, this book has relevance for other multicultural societies because the implications are international in scope.