Addressing mental health disparities through clinical competence not just cultural competence: the need for assessment of sociocultural issues in the delivery of evidence-based psychosocial rehabilitation services.
Recognition of ethnic/racial disparities in mental health services has not directly resulted in the development of culturally responsive psychosocial interventions. There remains a fundamental need for assessment of sociocultural issues that have been linked with the expectations, needs, and goals of culturally diverse consumers with severe and persistent mental illness. The authors posit that embedding the assessment of sociocultural issues into psychosocial rehabilitation practice is one step in designing culturally relevant empirically supported practices. It becomes a foundation on which practitioners can examine the relevance of their interventions to the diversity encountered in everyday practice. This paper provides an overview of the need for culturally and clinically relevant assessment practices and asserts that by improving the assessment of sociocultural issues the clinical competence of service providers is enhanced. The authors offer a conceptual framework for linking clinical assessment of sociocultural issues to consumer outcomes and introduce an assessment tool adapted to facilitate the process in psychosocial rehabilitation settings. Emphasizing competent clinical assessment skills will ultimately offer a strategy to address disparities in treatment outcomes for understudied populations of culturally diverse consumers with severe and persistent mental illness.
Yamada
Ann-Marie
AM
University of Southern California, School of Social Work, MRF 102C, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0411, United States. amyamada@usc.edu
Brekke
John S
JS
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D054521:Cultural Competency; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D005195:Family Relations; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010552:Personality Assessment; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012944:Social Support; D016896:Treatment Outcome
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