Considering context: family and culturally relevant engagement in the clinic

This Clinical Perspectives will offer practical strategies to assess for and attend to family, cultural, and other systemic factors in outpatient mental health practice. Understanding the impact of systemic factors, including family dynamics, cultural norms, structural violence and oppression, racism, and other social determinants of health, is essential to optimal mental health care. There is great variability in family and system theory, assessment, and intervention training across child and adolescent psychiatry fellowships.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Clinical Perspectives 75 Source Type: research