Model programs and cultural proficiency in service delivery: principles and pitfalls
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Mental health programs are being subjected to the pressures of managed care laws and health care reform. Those programs which rely on public financing and constantly struggle to remain financially viable are also confronted with productivity and performance standards which threaten to ignore problems pertaining to access and biopsychosocial stressors such as cultural differences, family dysfunction and poverty. A review of what model programs experience daily as part of larger healthcare systems would be beneficial to the defense of their survival and is discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1998
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The Client Cultural Competence Inventory: an instrument for assessing cultural competence in behavioral managed care organizations
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The evaluation of cultural competence involved in mental health delivery systems for ethnic minorities is conducted using the Client Cultural Competence Inventory (CCCI) scale. It is important to develop a reliable cultural competence scale since limitations hinder other methods utilizing self-assessment and observer-assessment tools. CCCI has an advantage over other competence scales since it focuses on the clients' perception of the care given by agencies, therapists and health plans in relation to cultural and ethnic considerations.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1998
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Maintaining high subject retention in follow-up studies of children with mental illness
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The author discuss strategies for retaining research study participants in follow-up studies of children with mental illness. Topics include procedural, methodological and personal strategies, and a case study.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1999
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