title: Cultural competence in correctional mental health.
abstract: Cultural competence is an essential aspect of competence as a mental health professional. In this article, the framework of cultural competence developed in general psychiatry-acquiring knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand the interaction between culture and the individual-is applied to the prison setting. Race and ethnicity, extremes of age, gender, and religion are highlighted and examined as elements of the overall culture of prisons. The model of the cultural formulation from the DSM-IV is then adapted for use by clinicians in the correctional setting, with particular emphasis on the interaction between the inmate's culture of origin and the unique culture of the prison environment.
authors.affiliation: Law & Psychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 34 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. reena.kapoor@yale.edu
authors.forename: Reena
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kapoor
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dike
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: Vinneth
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Ezra E H
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Griffith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D054521:Cultural Competency; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health / Q000208:ethnology / Q000592:standards; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology; D011330:Prisons / Q000592:standards*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D000078329:Workforce; D055815:Young Adult