3.19 Study Notes

Flashcards covering key terms and concepts related to the sociocultural perspective, cultural competence, treatment barriers, and mental health stigma.

Sociocultural Perspective

A theoretical model that looks at a person's thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and symptoms in the context of the person's culture and background.

Multicultural Counseling and Therapy

An approach to therapy that aims to define treatment goals and use therapeutic methods consistent with the life experiences and cultural values of clients.

Individualistic Cultures

Cultures that emphasize one's own personal perspective and achieving one's own personal dreams or goals in life.

Collectivist Cultures

Cultures that emphasize conforming behavior and actions that support one's family, group, clan, or tribe.

Cultural Competence

The therapist's understanding and attention to issues of race, culture, and ethnicity in themselves and in their clients when providing treatment.

Eurocentric Therapies

Therapeutic approaches that tend to assume individualistic goals are most important, which can limit their application for clients with collectivist values.

APA Principles of Cultural Competence (2017)

Ten basic principles adopted by the American Psychological Association that guide psychologists in recognizing cultural identity, environmental impacts, power and privilege, and culturally adaptive interventions.

Adolescent Discrimination Longitudinal Study

An 18-year longitudinal study of almost 700 Black adolescents finding that perceived racial discrimination predicted increases in anxiety and depression in adulthood among Black males.

Barriers to Mental Health Treatment

Structural and psychological obstacles to care including lack of insurance, transportation difficulties, language differences, stigma, fear of hospitalization, and family privacy concerns.

Depression Stigma in Older Korean Americans

A research finding where 71% of surveyed older Korean Americans viewed depression as a sign of personal weakness, and 14% believed having a mentally ill family member brings shame.

Black Church as Healthcare Alternative

A religious institution serving as an alternative to formal mental health services by offering prevention and treatment-type programs to enhance psychological and physical well-being.

U.S. Youth Mental Health Statistics

Data showing 20% of high school seniors experience mental health problems, 8% attempt suicide, and only 20% of those with mental disorders receive professional help.

Sandy Hook Promise

An organization co-founded by Suzy DeYoung and established by parents following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to advocate for children's mental health treatment and awareness.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

The nation's largest nonprofit mental health advocacy and support organization dedicated to public education, awareness, and de-stigmatizing mental illness.