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Definitions
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Demographic
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The appreciation of people where they come from, their heritage, faith, and belief systems
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P, C, A
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Person-centered
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Relating to the patient based on their background, and taking into consideration where they’re from
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P, C, A
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Clinician techniques
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Sharing similarities
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Instead of the differences I would focus more on the things that we have in common
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P, C, A
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Respect patient wishes
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Well, that’s up to the patient to make that decision
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P, A
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Explain options to patients
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If it doesn’t make it better for you, come back and tell me and we’ll find something different
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P, C, A
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Patient challenges
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Cultural model of mental health
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I think that our country is very Spanish, so if you go to the psiquiatra (psychiatrist) or the psicólogo (psychologist) it means you’re crazy
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P, C
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Cultural view of mental illness
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I can’t think of any culture where mental illness isn’t a stigma
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P, C
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Concerns about the clinician’s culture
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Some patients reject you for who we are because we are from another culture
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C, A
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Clinician challenges
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Explicit bias
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I had one therapist that, I’m mixed, and when I would come to see her, all she wanted to talk about was my culture
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P, A
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Implicit bias
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We all have attitudes and beliefs that we come into this practice with that we have to check at the door and be very mindful of
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P, A
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Institutional challenges
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Time
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A long time ago you would say 45 minutes, but now it’s half an hour and hopefully they don’t cut that
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P, C, A
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Technological pressures
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Before technology, the therapist would look at you. But now they’re typing while you’re talking to them. You don’t feel it
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P, C
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