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To deal with these difficulties, several recommendations can be formulated:
1. Cross-cultural variables: Ethnic matches should be arranged between client and therapist. These will be effective in dealing not only with communication problems, but also with cultural perceptions of the disease as well as with possible social stigmas attached to the disease. The therapist, sharing similar cultural background to the patient understands the patient's concern and speaks the patient's language therefore is more able than another to 'pull' her through.
Other recommendations include items such as that Government should allocate more funding to establishing specific mental health treatments that are run by and appeal to the various ethnic minorities. In a similar manner, government should increase their funding for research and clinical training of ethnic and racial minority members (e.g. The minority Fellowship Program and the COR). Finally, general Mental health services should incorporate cross-cultural communication variables in their general service (so as to appeal to the population as a whole) and mental health professionals, accordingly, should be trained in cultural competency. Materials in various languages should be published and disseminated publicizing the need and for and benefits of mental health services; and outreach to underserved groups...
Research: Increased funding should be directed to encouraging extended research on cross-cultural differences in mental health symptoms and interventions that can be formatted to deal with these needs. Existent research, too, has so far only dealt with attitudinal obstructions. More research must be devoted to finding emotional reasons that deter individuals from seeking help. Disparities also exist in the quantity of research allotted to different populations; some, in other words, are studied more often than others. Health care professionals, therefore, should pay more attention to under-studied populations.
Other recommendations include reducing financial barriers to treatment; improving awareness of cultural and ethnic minorities of the need for and benefit of mental health treatments; ensuring that they receive the same quality mental health treatment as do Caucasians; and that ethnic and racial minorities are equally represented in mental health research.
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Leong, F.T.L., & Kalibatseva, Z. (2011) Cross-cultura Barriers to mental Health services in United States. Cerebrum. The DANA Foundation. http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=31364
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