
The Connection Between Bullying and Suicide in Ethnic Minority Populations
Teceta Thomas Tormala, Iulia I. Ivan, Rebecca Floyd, and Leonard C. Beckum
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Ethnic minority youth inhabit worlds that put them at specific risk for victimization, bullying, and suicide. The authors address cultural factors associated with being a racial or ethnic ...
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Tailoring Treatment to the Patient’s Race and Ethnicity
Guillermo Bernal and Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 64 presents techniques for tailoring treatment to a patient's race and ethnicity, including rationales for treatment adaptations, conceptual frameworks, evidence, and cultural ...
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Integrative Psychotherapy with Culturally Diverse Clients
Jeff E. Harris, Natasha Shukla, and Allen E. Ivey
in Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration (3 edn)
When multiple cultural influences are acknowledged, all psychotherapy clients are recognized as culturally unique. Cultural assessment involves understanding the intersecting impact of ...
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Module 1—Family Collectivism (Sessions 1–3)
Amy Weisman de Mamani, Merranda McLaughlin, Olivia Altamirano, Daisy Lopez, and Salman Shaheen Ahmad
in Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Clinician Guide
The focus on the individual, typical of mainstream U.S. therapies, is alien to other cultures and can cause discomfort that leads to ineffective treatment and early termination. The aim of ...
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Cultural and Ethnic Considerations in Young Adult Mental Health
Declan T. Barry and Mark Beitel
in Young Adult Mental Health
This chapter discusses issues related to cultural and ethnic considerations pertaining to young adult mental health and offers practice recommendations for clinicians who work with young ...
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Ethnographic Approaches
Urmitapa Dutta
in Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods
Critical ethnography is an approach that connects detailed cultural analysis to wider social structures and systems of power by simultaneously examining dimensions of race, class, culture, ...
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Multicultural Considerations in the Working Alliance
Changming Duan
in Working Alliance Skills for Mental Health Professionals
The author addresses the importance of the working alliance from a multicultural perspective. In order to best serve the needs of racial/ethnic minority clients, it is critical to ...
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The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
Margaret C. Stevenson, Bette L. Bottoms, and Kelly C. Burke (eds)
The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy is the first volume to review the intersecting implications of psychology, public policy, and law with the ...
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Race and Ethnicity as a Compound Risk Factor in Police Interrogation of Youth
Iris Blandón-Gitlin, Hayley Cleary, and Alisa Blair
in The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
This chapter focuses on juveniles, particularly juveniles of color, in police interrogation contexts. A scientific and professional perspective is provided on the factors affecting children ...
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Do Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Shape the Experience and Disclosure of Child Sexual Abuse?
Lindsay C. Malloy, Jessica E. Sutherland, Lillian Rodriguez Steen, and Jodi A. Quas
in The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy
It is important to consider the potential effects of race, ethnicity, and culture (REC) on how children experience and disclose childhood sexual abuse, and how their disclosures are ...
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Background and CIT-S Overview
Amy Weisman de Mamani, Merranda McLaughlin, Olivia Altamirano, Daisy Lopez, and Salman Shaheen Ahmad
in Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Clinician Guide
Chapter 2 describes the foundational research from which it is based and introduces the main outline and goals of culturally informed therapy for schizophrenia (CIT-S). The chapter begins ...
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Improving access to low intensity interventions for ethnic minority communities
Judy Leibowitz
in Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions
Chapter 61 focuses on the issue of improving access to LI interventions for ethnic minority communities, and examines possible reasons for reduced access and suggests some strategies to ...
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Racial–Ethnic Cultural Factors in the Process of Acceptance of Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
in Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
This chapter examines barriers and facilitators to the acceptance process that stem from the norms, values, beliefs, and practices found within various racial and ethnic groups. To ...
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Inextricably Linked: The Shared Story of Ethnic Studies and LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum
Shannon Snapp and Stephen T. Russell
in Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling: The Nexus of Research, Practice, and Policy
Evidence suggests that inclusive curriculum has positive implications for students’ learning, well-being, and safety. Types of inclusive curricula, namely ethnic studies and LGBTQ-inclusive ...
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Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Peter Goldblum, Dorothy L. Espelage, Joyce Chu, and Bruce Bongar (eds)
Specialists have long known that involvement in bullying in any capacity (as the victim or as the perpetrator) is associated with higher rates of suicidal ideation and behavior, but ...
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Conflict, Personality, and Culture in Psychotherapy
Richard G. Druss
in Listening to Patients: Relearning the Art of Healing in Psychotherapy
Chapter 4 explores conflict, personality, and culture in psychotherapy. Listening to patients from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds can be a challenge for any therapist. Helping a ...
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Individual and Cultural Diversity Considerations in Geropsychology
Yvette N. Tazeau
in Specialty Competencies in Geropsychology
Chapter 8 discusses individual and cultural diversity considerations in geropsychology, including how diversity is a broader concept when considered at the individual and cultural levels. ...
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Evidence Base for the Developmental Narrative Elaboration Interview
Karen J. Saywitz and Lorinda B. Camparo
in Evidence-based Child Forensic Interviewing: The Developmental Narrative Elaboration Interview
Chapter 2 is a summary of the experimental research on the elements of the DNE Interview. It describes studies conducted with over 1000 children, ages 3 to 12, demonstrating positive ...
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Accommodating Race and Ethnicity in Parenting Interventions
Divna M. Haslam and Anilena Mejia
in The Power of Positive Parenting: Transforming the Lives of Children, Parents, and Communities Using the Triple P System
The parenting experience can be both similar and vastly different across different cultural contexts. This chapter outlines what culture is and the impact it has on family structure and ...
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Considerations in Treating People with Disabilities
Rochelle Balter
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 65 presents considerations in treating people with disabilities, including accepted definitions of disability, factors that influence how disability is perceived, gender, race, ...
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