title: Enhancing the Cultural Relevance of Empirically-Supported Mental Health Interventions.
abstract: Evidence-based practice (EBP) has become a hot topic in clinical social work and other mental health disciplines. Mental health professionals have called attention to the need for clinical decision-making to be based on the best available empirically supported treatments integrated with client preferences, values, and circumstances. This movement has greatly stimulated mental health professionals to develop, test, and adopt efficacious treatments for clients with psychological problems, but what is missing in the literature is the cultural context in which these treatments must be implemented to be effective with racial/ethnic minority populations. Herein, we utilize the culturally centered framework of Bernal, Bonilla and Bellido (1995) to examine its utility in assessing to what extent empirically supported mental health treatments incorporate culturally relevant components.
authors: Post-doctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine in the Department of Geriatric Psychiatry.
authors: Kyaien O
authors: KO
authors: Conner
authors: Nancy K
authors: NK
authors: Grote
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