Cultural Intervention Strategies

Asian Americans

• Respect authority
• Somatic complaints
• Understate the problem
• Private
• Success driven

Clinical Interventions

• Establish credibility
• Formalism
• Immediate/Meaningful benefit
• Non-traditional medicine

African Americans

• Racism
• Extended kinship network
• Church
• Deny need for help

Clinical Interventions

• Time limited
• Directive
• Problem solving
• Multi-system approach

Latino/Hispanic

• Interdependence
• Family over individual
• Religious

Clinical Interventions

• Informal
• Active and Directive
• Family therapy
• Value interdependence

Native Americans

• Rely on their community
• Tribal identity
• Present-focused
• Traditional healers

Clinical Interventions

• Non-directive
• Holistic-incorporate cultural views
• Incorporate extended family