“…Service delivery. Racism affects direct service providers, including the availability of ethnoculturally diverse therapists and other mental health service providers, the comfort and attitude of these personnel in working with ethnoculturally diverse populations, their attention to prevention in contrast to treatment and remediation, and the cultural appropriateness of the major models of mental health service delivery that they learn and employ (Bernal, 1990;Lorion, 1991;Ridley, 1995; Rigazio-DiGilio, Ivey, & Lock, 1997; Townsend, 1995; Whaley, 1998).…”