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Staff Access
Services for Specific Populations
Culture, Language & Religious Issues
Understanding Specific Cultures
Very often, when we first begin to learn about different culture groups, the tendency is to take the facts we learn and apply them to everyone who is a member of the group. We do this without evaluating the extent to which the individual members adhere to the dominant values and beliefs. This is a form of stereotyping.
One way to avoid stereotyping is to look at new knowledge about an ethnic group as a generalization, which is a beginning point...
– Adapted from: Culture Brokering: Providing Culturally Competent Rehabilitation Services to Foreign–Born Persons Mary Ann Jezewski, Ph.D. and Paula Sotnik Copyright © 2001, http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/monographs/cb.php
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Databases & Training
- Key Community Resources:
- DMH Multicultural Populations Directory
(2019) - lists clinical programs that work with specific populations, but also includes extensive links and resources by population and locality.
- Mutual Assistance Associations- social service and informal peer-assistance organizations dedicated assisting immigrants, often specific immigrant populations.
- Additional Organizations:
- Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI-USA) (Mattapan): https://www.ifsi-usa.org/about
- Haitian Community
- Asosiyasyon Famn Ayisyen nan Boston / Association of Haitian Women in Boston: http://afab-kafanm.org/wp/
- The Haitian Community Center: https://theehcc.org/- faith-based human rights, civil rights and anti-poverty Haitian-American organization focused on the youths, aged, widowed, and orphaned immigrants of all faiths in Everett, Malden, Medford, Chelsea, Revere, East Boston, Lynn; Woburn and other Greater Boston areas.
- Ethnomed The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
- Think Cultural Health - "A Physician's Practical Guide to Cultually Competent Care". Registration required, and is open to all health professionals and the site offers free online training modules.
A typical module includes these components:
- Case
- Questions for self-exploration
- Content information
- Opportunity for further exploration of the case in light of the content information and individual practice
- Other perspectives about the case
- Culture Clues™
- Culture Clues™ are tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from the diverse cultures served by University of Washington Medical Center. Culture Clues™ are available for these cultures: Albanian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Chinese, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Korean, Latino, Russian, Somali and Vietnamese. End of Life Culture Clues™ , tip sheets regarding end-of-life care as often preferred by various cultures, are available for: Latino cultures, Russian culture, Vietnamese culture.
See Also: Special Populations/Immigrants
Additional Articles and Reference Materials
- NASW Standards for Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice
– Prepared by the NASW National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.
Approved by the NASW Board of Directors, Revised in 2015
- Institutional Racism & The Social Work Profession: A Call to Action
– Presidential Task Force Subcommittee - Institutional Racism. National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C., 2007.
- Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General, August 2001.
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Striking disparities in mental health care are found for racial and ethnic minorities.This Supplement documents the existence of several disparities affecting mental health care of racial and ethnic minorities compared with whites:
- Minorities have less access to, and availability of, mental health services.
- Minorities are less likely to receive needed mental health services.
- Minorities in treatment often receive a poorer quality of mental health care.
- Minorities are underrepresented in mental health research.
- Depression Engulfs Area's Puerto Ricans: Researchers Cite Poverty, Isolation - MGH Community News, December 2006
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