Factors associated with number of treatment interviews of patients from a barrio neighborhood mental health service: A cross‐validation

Kahn, Marvin W.; Heiman, Elliott M.

doi:10.1007/bf00894378

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“…Clients who terminate prematurely from therapy often do this within the first six sessions (Baekeland & Lundwall, 1975;Lorion, 1974;Sue, 1977). Kahn & Heiman (1979) identified selfreferral and problems involving internal stress as factors which mediated against premature termination for minority persons. Self-referral and personal motivation, however, may not be common among minority persons in psychotherapy (Acosta, 1980).…”

Section: Epidemiological Researchmentioning

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Cultural control in psychotherapy with minority clients.

Hall¹,

Malony²

1983

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice

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The published literature on mental health services for minority clients suggests that these persons experience special problems with the traditional mental health delivery system. Epidemiological and attitude studies have indicated that minority client and majority therapist expectations for psychotherapy are often discrepant. Counseling and psychotherapy outcome research on therapist-client racial pairing has yielded inconclusive results at present. It is hypothesized that therapist-client racial pairing may interact with level of therapist dominance in affecting psychotherapy outcome. Dominant majority clinicians may manipulate minority persons toward majority values, which may comprise a form of cultural control. Highly dominant clinicians are posited to function more effectively with culturally-similar clients than with culturally-different clients in thatdomination may be appropriate to a certain degree in culturally homogeneous settings. Low dominant clinicians are posited as being more effective than highly dominant clinicians with culturally different clients in that they would be more likely to attempt to understand the client's cultural perspective in a non-manipulative manner.A major component of the Zeitgeist of the community mental health movement has been the delivery of services to minority groups in society. Mental health facilities have been

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Section: Epidemiological Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural control in psychotherapy with minority clients.

Hall¹,

Malony²

1983

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice

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Important psychocultural factors in the delivery of mental health services to lower-class puerto rican clients: A review of recent studies

Rosado

1980

J. Community Psychol.

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Literature on the psychological orientation of lower class Puerto Rican clients, their cultural value system, and their expectations for mental health services was reviewed. First, lower‐class Puerto Rican client's psychocultural orientation to therapy was seen as relatively dissimilar to that of the typical middle‐class American client. Second, differences in expectations of therapy between the Anglo therapist and lower‐class Puerto Rican client were described. Factors affecting the minimal use of mental health services by the lower‐class Puerto Rican community were also discussed. Recommendations were offered to aid in the amelioration of these problems for Puerto Rican clientele.

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The relationship of personal financial status to the utilization of community mental health centers in rural appalachia

Banziger

Foos

1983

American J of Comm Psychol

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As a follow-up to an aggregate study of the relationship of economic factors to the utilization of mental health facilities, this study, using individual data, attempted to determine the associative strengths of income factors--welfare and unemployment--for utilization of community mental health centers (CMHCs) in rural Appalachia. On the basis of the earlier study and of previous studies of social class and utilization of CMHCs it was hypothesized that for this sample of 151 clients of eight CMHCs in Ohio and West Virginia, unemployment and welfare factors would be most strongly associated with utilization. A multiple regression analysis indicated that when compared to other independent variables, such as life satisfaction, demographic, and personal factors, receipt of food stamps was the most important factor in relating to utilization; this relationship was considerably stronger when the more rural areas were separated for analysis. Some relationship between employment status and utilization was also found. The results are discussed in terms of unique patterns of social service dependency in more rural Appalachia.

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Factors associated with number of treatment interviews of patients from a barrio neighborhood mental health service: A cross‐validation

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Cultural control in psychotherapy with minority clients.

Cultural control in psychotherapy with minority clients.

Important psychocultural factors in the delivery of mental health services to lower-class puerto rican clients: A review of recent studies

The relationship of personal financial status to the utilization of community mental health centers in rural appalachia

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