Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health Care to Ethnic Minority Communities: Has Its Practice Fallen Short of Its Evidence?

Social Work ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Aisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Minority Communities

scholarly journals Professionalism and Evidence-Based Mental Health Care: The Roadblocks and New Ways

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Oyeyemi Olajumoke Oyelade ◽  
Agathe Uwintonze ◽  
Munirat Olayinka Adebiyi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
World Health ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Care

BACKGROUND: Knowledge acquisition and knowledge update through research remains an important factor to ensure quality and cost-effective care, which is the hallmark of professionalism and evidence-based care. Knowledge is vital in nursing due to the centrality of nursing to health care. More importantly is mental health because mental health is primary to general health, just as nursing is the heartbeat of health care. This makes the issue of mental health care, a necessary service that cannot be overemphasised. The World Health Organisation declares mental health as the essential form of health that needs to be acquired without which all others form of health may not be achieved. Further to this, the global emphasis on care and recovery of lost mental health is on the increase. This, therefore, makes evidence-based mental health care, a necessity and not a choice. AIM: To discuss evidence-based nursing, the benefits, challenges and opportunities. METHODOLOGY: This article adopts the traditional review method to assess the concept of discussion on mental health care, evidence-based practice and professionalism. FINDINGS: The term evidence-based care Is gaining recognition in a variety of professions and organisations. The use of evidence in nursing care is influenced by policies, knowledge of time management, availability of human resources, practice autonomy and attitude of professionals. However, the use of evidence-based practice is not debatable. CONCLUSION: The use of scientific evidence for validating nursing care is germane. This article exposed the barriers to evidence-based mental health nursing and the way forward. 

Unifying and Elevating Rehabilitation Counseling Through Model-Driven, Diversity-Sensitive Evidence-Based Practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fong Chan ◽  
Vilia Tarvydas ◽  
Kacie Blalock ◽  
David Strauser ◽  
Bobbie J. Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Informed Choice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Rehabilitation Outcomes ◽  
Counseling Practices

Rehabilitation counseling must embrace an evidence-based practice paradigm to remain a vital and respected member of the future community of professions in rehabilitation and mental health care and to fully discharge its responsibility to assist consumers in accessing effective rehabilitation interventions and exercising truly informed choice. The goals of this article are to (a) discuss the importance of using model-driven and culturally sensitive evidence-based rehabilitation counseling practices to enhance rehabilitation outcomes for people with disabilities, (b) highlight the needs for an integrative conceptual framework of disability that can be used to conduct systematic rehabilitation counseling research and to examine mediators and moderators affecting vocational rehabilitation outcomes, and (c) recommend changes in rehabilitation counseling practice, education, and research.

scholarly journals Where Would You Go? Race, Religion, and the Limits of Pastor Mental Health Care in Black and Latino Congregations

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1062
Author(s):  
Daniel Bolger ◽  
Pamela J. Prickett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Spiritual Resources ◽  
Black Christians ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Black And Latino

A growing body of literature explores how religious congregations shape attitudes toward mental health in racial/ethnic minority communities. Such research has primarily focused on the views of Black clergy and congregants, limiting our ability to understand how the views of Black Christians might differ from Christians in other racial/ethnic minority communities. We drew on focus groups with 14 pastors and interviews with 20 congregants from Black and Latino churches in Houston, Texas, to examine how church members make decisions about where to seek mental health care or direct others for help. We found that both Black and Latino Christians prefer seeking spiritual resources, like their pastor, when dealing with mental health issues, even though pastors feel limited in their ability to help congregants. The preferences of members of each racial/ethnic group, however, were driven by different logics. While Black Christians in this study sought spiritual resources based on perceived norms within the broader Black community, Latino Christians relied on pastoral care due to norms in their individual congregation. The results shed light on how religious beliefs, race/ethnicity, and social class intersect to shape attitudes toward mental health care in ways that have implications for potential partnerships between churches and mental health care providers.

scholarly journals Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health Care to Ethnic Minority Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 90-106
Author(s):  
Eugene Aisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Randomized Clinical Trials ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Adult Mental Health ◽  
Ethnic Minority Populations

Evidence-based practice (EBP) has contributed substantially to the advancement of knowledge in the treatment and prevention of adult mental health disorders. A fundamental assumption, based on documented evidence of effectiveness with certain populations, is that EBP is equally effective and applicable to all populations. However, small sample sizes of ethnic minority populations in randomized clinical trials prevent strong and clear conclusions about the effectiveness and generalizability of EBP with regard to people of color. In addition, the appropriateness of EBPs to ethnic minority communities has rarely been investigated. This article critically examines the applicability and dissemination of adult mental health EBP to diverse ethnic minority populations. It highlights limitations of EBP rooted in its epistemological narrowness, exclusion of communities of color, and lack of cultural competence and examines whether the practice of EBP has overstepped its evidence. This article presents a framework characterized by pathways of epistemological partnership and substantive inclusion of racial and ethnic minority groups to facilitate the promotion of culturally responsive EBPs and to inform mental health practice and policy implementation.

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