What Are Culturally Supported Interventions
The Book of Ethics
Ch. 5: Cultural and Spiritual
Dimensions of Addiction Treatment
Presented by: Joslynn A. Davis
Rapid Growth of an
Ethnic and Culturally Diverse
Clientele
As a result of a steadily increasing rate of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., the population that helping profession wants to assist has become very multicultural and diverse.
Some helping practitioners are unable to effectively help their clients due to the cultural boundaries between the client and the helper.
With so many cases like that on the rise in the helping profession, the American Psychiatric Association stated that in their guidelines that “helpers should be multiculturally competent and know their limitations in serving diverse
clients” …show more content…
4 Treatment Interventions to refer to when working with patients from a different culture:
Transport evidence based treatment
Culturally adapt evidence based treatment
Culturally supported interventions
Developing new interventions
Ethical Principles of Culture &
Spirituality in Addiction
Personal responsibility and Voluntarism: Before developing a treatment plan, the patient needs to be informed of all information on all reasonable treatment options; regardless of the practitioners attitudes toward the interventions.
Coercion is minimized by having the patient input their own personal values to the information provided by the practitioner.
Therapeutic alliance: requires that cultural competence is critical to establishing an effective therapeutic relationship.
Beneficence/Nonmaleficence: to provide the best possible care, its necessary to incorporate cultural and spiritual dimensions into evaluation and treatment.
However keep in mind that some beliefs/practices are harmful, while others are therapeutic, so respect must be balanced with the obligation to help and prevent harm to the
Ch. 5: Cultural and Spiritual
Dimensions of Addiction Treatment
Presented by: Joslynn A. Davis
Rapid Growth of an
Ethnic and Culturally Diverse
Clientele
As a result of a steadily increasing rate of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., the population that helping profession wants to assist has become very multicultural and diverse.
Some helping practitioners are unable to effectively help their clients due to the cultural boundaries between the client and the helper.
With so many cases like that on the rise in the helping profession, the American Psychiatric Association stated that in their guidelines that “helpers should be multiculturally competent and know their limitations in serving diverse
clients” …show more content…
4 Treatment Interventions to refer to when working with patients from a different culture:
Transport evidence based treatment
Culturally adapt evidence based treatment
Culturally supported interventions
Developing new interventions
Ethical Principles of Culture &
Spirituality in Addiction
Personal responsibility and Voluntarism: Before developing a treatment plan, the patient needs to be informed of all information on all reasonable treatment options; regardless of the practitioners attitudes toward the interventions.
Coercion is minimized by having the patient input their own personal values to the information provided by the practitioner.
Therapeutic alliance: requires that cultural competence is critical to establishing an effective therapeutic relationship.
Beneficence/Nonmaleficence: to provide the best possible care, its necessary to incorporate cultural and spiritual dimensions into evaluation and treatment.
However keep in mind that some beliefs/practices are harmful, while others are therapeutic, so respect must be balanced with the obligation to help and prevent harm to the