Attending to self-activity in the Afro-American client.

Jenkins, Adelbert H.

doi:10.1037/h0085512

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“…W. Sue, 1981). Similar recommendations for conducting therapy with other ethnic minority groups, such as Blacks (e.g., Calia, 1966; Jenkins, 1985) and Hispanics (e.g., Cortese, 1979; Meadow, 1982), have been reported. Such techniques may be consistent with the values and coping styles of a specific ethnic minority group, but their application becomes problematic as therapists attempt to accommodate individual differences among members of a particular ethnic minority group.…”

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Predictors of utilization intent of counseling among Chinese and White students: A test of the proximal-distal model.

Akutsu¹,

Lin²,

Zane³

1990

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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Chinese (N = 152) and White (N = 160) students reviewed a counseling interview transcript and provided perceptions on counselor credibility, counselor behaviors, and utilization intent. Utilization intent was defined as perceived willingness to use counseling after an initial hypothetical interview. In the proximal-distal model S. Sue and Zane (1987) proposed that achieving counselor credibility is more directly related to utilization intent than to culture-specific techniques, such as directiveness, when counselors are working with ethnic minority clients. For both ethnic samples, counselor credibility was the strongest predictor of utilization intent, and empathic involvement was the sole predictor of counselor credibility. Whereas the proximal-distal model was supported by the results obtained with the Chinese sample, a variant of this model best described the results for the White sample for which empathic involvement, as well as counselor credibility, was found to be directly related to utilization intent.

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Predictors of utilization intent of counseling among Chinese and White students: A test of the proximal-distal model.

Akutsu¹,

Lin²,

Zane³

1990

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…Educational and cultural differences may present barriers to services including limited awareness of mental disorders and the mental health system, language barriers and lack of insurance (Fiscella, Franks, Doescher et al, 2002; Sadavoy, Meier, Ong et al, 2004; Snowden, 2003; Strug & Mason, 2001; Vega & Rumbaut, 1991; Wells, Golding, Hough et al, 1988). Many have highlighted the need for culturally sensitive and competent services that take into account provider and patient characteristics (Alegria, Takeuchi, Canino et al, 2004; Comas-Diaz & Griffith, 1988; Jenkins, 1985; Padilla & Salgado De Snyder, 1985; Ruiz, 2002; Snowden, 2003; Woodward, Dwinell, & Arons, 1992). For example, Oquendo et al (2004) (Oquendo, Lizardi, Greenwald et al, 2004) and others have found that rates of lifetime suicide attempt and major depression vary according to subgroups of Latinos (Kessler, Borges, & Walters, 1999; Ungemack & Guarnaccia, 1998), emphasizing the need to consider individual cultural patient characteristics.…”

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Predictors of Treatment Utilization in Major Depression

Alonzo

Harkavy‐Friedman

Stanley³

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Archives of Suicide Research

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Suicide attempters with major depression are at risk for repeat attempts and often do not utilize treatment. Identifying predictors of treatment non-utilization could inform interventions to motivate treatment use and reduce suicide risk in major depression. Two hundred and seventy three participants with a major depressive episode as part of a major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder, were assessed for socio-demographic and clinical characteristics at baseline and again 1 year later to identify predictors of treatment utilization. Treatment utilization rate was high 1 year after initial evaluation (72.5%). Severity of baseline depression, baseline treatment status, and education were associated with treatment utilization at 1 year. Interventions focused on increasing knowledge about depression and treatment efficacy may improve treatment adherence when treating depression.

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“…In a recent publication (Jenkins, 1985), I suggested that this kind of behavior is an example of "self' processes in the Black client. The term "self' is used to refer to the individual's sense of his or her active agency in the world and the human capacity to opt for one or another view of the world from among the inevitable alternatives posed by experience (Jenkins, 1982;Rychlak, 1979).…”

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“…Based on a considerable amount of empirical research regarding the importance of such processes to people in confronting unfamiliar circumstances (Rychlak, 1988, Chap. 9), it is possible to propose that minorities bring such active assessing processes into the therapy situation (Jenkins, 1985). These are not primarily processes of "resistance" arising out of the more formal therapy interaction per se.…”

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Dynamics of the relationship in clinical work with African-American clients

Jenkins

1990

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It has been clear for some time that traditional approaches to psychotherapy do not necessarily translate in a simple and direct fashion to work with minorities, especially to persons of lower-and working-class background. Stanley Sue (1977) documents the difficulty mental health professionals have had in keeping minority clients in treatment. Nevertheless, it seems clear that problems in clinical work with minorities are not simply due to a wholesale inapropriateness of traditional psychotherapeutic methods. Rather, difficulties are at least partly due to our incomplete understanding of how therapy works with anyone--even when client and therapist are of White, middle-class background.On the other hand, we do know some things. Although there are clearly culture-specific factors that therapists must be aware of in the therapeutic situation, so-called traditional theory is continually developing and is itself affected by changes in cultural conceptions. Witness the current concern with narcissism and interest in the psychology of the self. I believe that there are

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Attending to self-activity in the Afro-American client.

Cited by 21 publications

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Predictors of utilization intent of counseling among Chinese and White students: A test of the proximal-distal model.

Predictors of utilization intent of counseling among Chinese and White students: A test of the proximal-distal model.

Predictors of Treatment Utilization in Major Depression

Dynamics of the relationship in clinical work with African-American clients

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