Cultural Competence: Impact on Clinical Care

Topics: Cultural Competence | Culture | Race | Respectful Care

Hien, your 8-year-old Vietnamese American patient with autism spectrum disorder, is referred to you for “assault” and “elopement.” The school psychologist describes Hien hugging peers (“assaults”) during reading (“non-preferred task”), leaving his desk (“elopement”), and coming to the teacher and leaning into her chest (“sexual mis

Using an Interpreter in Psychiatric Practice

Topics: Affordable Care Act (ACA) | Culture | Diversity | Interpreter | Language | Translator

According to US census data, 21.9% of the US population speaks ‌a language other than English at home: chiefly Spanish, followed by Chinese (Center for Immigration Studies; www.tinyurl.com/s5e8s9q). Language barriers impair a child’s ability to receive appropriate, timely psychiatric treatment. Given these facts, as clinicians, we often need interpr

Cultural Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Topics: Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BFST) | Child Psychiatry | Culture | Diversity | expressed emotion | Minority | Promotoras

CCPR: Welcome, Dr. Pumariega. Please tell us about your work. Dr. Pumariega: I have been examining the impact of culture on mental health my entire career. My early work involved clinical practice, literature review, and my own studies to operationalize culturally competent services, leading to the Cultural Competence Standards for Four Racial Ethnic P