Ethnocultural Psychotherapy
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Although ethnocultural psychotherapy has its roots in cross-cultural psychology, themajority of scholarship underpinning its development has occurred in the United States, likely due in part to the diversity of the U.S. population. In particular, census estimates indicate that by the year 2050 the number of U.S. residents who self-identify as European American will constitute less than 50% of the total U.S. population. This shifting demographic landscape has helped researchers and clinicians increasingly recognize the limits of traditional conceptualizations of psychotherapy, which have not typically considered the sociocultural, historical, political, and economic conditions that shape people’s lived experiences. Empirical support for the need to attend to culture in psychotherapy can be found in two main arenas. First, researchers have documented ethnic-group variability in the prevalence rates of psychological disorders in the United States. For example, national estimates of mental health disorders have recognized that African Americans and Latinos have significantly lower lifetime risk for mental disorders than do European Americans (Kessler, Chiu, Demler, Merikangas, & Walters, 2005). These findings are noteworthy given that low family income has been identified as an important risk factor for mental health disorders and African Americans and Latino families are disproportionately represented among the economically disadvantaged. These seemingly incompatible findings suggest that there may be racial,
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