Expanding pediatric psychology beyond hospital walls to meet the health care needs of ethnic minority children.
OBJECTIVE
To discuss the need for an ecological model and new approaches for meeting the psychological and physical health care needs of minority children.


METHODS
I support approaches that are informal, empowerment oriented, and culturally sensitive and that address illness prevention and health promotion.


CONCLUSIONS
Assessment, intervention, and research challenges involved in implementing these approaches are identified, and some strategies for overcoming these challenges are discussed.


CONCLUSIONS
Pediatric psychology can be expanded to embrace the advocated model and intervention approaches to better meet the health care needs of minority children.
Tucker
Carolyn M
CM
Deaprtment of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611, USA. cmtucker@ufl.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008913:Minority Groups; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011203:Poverty / Q000208:ethnology*; D002666:Psychology, Child / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States