CULTURALLY COMPETENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR CHILDREN

在儿童心理健康服务研究领域， 越来越多的人担心心理健康专业人员无法满足需求， 少数民族，不知道文化决定的行为。到 促进文化上有能力的心理健康服务，其目的是 一个小项目，是为了完成一个经验性的发展- 一项评估治疗师文化能力的指标， 为精神健康状况严重的非裔美国儿童提供服务 问题和他们的家庭。重要的是，这项研究利用了 治疗过程和治疗结果数据收集在两个最近的 由NIMH和NIDA资助的随机试验，以及来自 基础设施研究计划。因此，该提案旨在获得 进行数据分析所需的资源 与非裔美国人发展文化能力的措施 儿童和家庭，并通过审查是否 被测量的结构与孩子和家庭联系在一起 结果。拟议研究的两个目的是：（1）制定一项措施 一个文化上胜任的心理治疗过程， 治疗过程中的客户-治疗师互动， 非裔美国人客户和他们的治疗师的观点， (2)检查是否从文化能力的衡量标准构建 心理治疗过程预测两个非洲样本的临床结果 美国少年犯既往严重的临床问题及其治疗 家庭

In the field of mental health services research of children,, threw is growing concern that mental health professionals are not meeting the needs of ethic minorities and are unaware of culturally determined behavior. To foster culturally competent mental health services, the purpose of this small grant proposal is to complete the development of an empirically- based measure that assesses therapists' cultural competence when providing services to African American children presenting serious mental health problems and their families. Importantly, this study takes advantage of therapy process and treatment outcome data collected during two recent randomized trials funded by NIMH and NIDA, and developmental support from a Research Infra Structure Program. Therefore, the proposal aims to gain the resources to conduct the data analyses needed to complete the development of a measure of cultural competence with African American children and families and to validate the measure by examining whether constructs tapped by the measured are linked with child and family outcomes. The two aims of the proposed study are to: (1) Develop a measure of culturally competent psychotherapy process that captures the dynamics of client-therapist interactions during therapy sessions from the perspectives of both African American clients and their therapists, and (2) Examine whether constructs from the measure of culturally competent psychotherapy process predict clinical outcome for two samples of African American juvenile offenders previous serious clinical problems and their families.