3230.0 Bruno Lima symposium on mental health issues among minority populations

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
This session focuses on cultural competency in the provision of mental health services, and how agencies and providers can improve use and outcomes of the mental health services that they provide.
Session Objectives: Describe cultural competency in mental health services and how to increase it. Describe strategies for improving access to mental health care for minority populations. Describe how agencies impact mental health outcomes for minority clients.
Moderator:
Kathleen Thomas, PhD

12:30pm
Access to effective behavioral health services for insured minority populations: What works?
Eduardo Velasco, PhD, Kathie Fox, PhD, Allan S. Noonan, MD, MPH, Annelle Primm, MD, MPH and Kim Lisbeth Dobson Sydnor, PhD
        
12:50pm
Transforming mental health services to Hispanic/Latino communities through the implementation of cultural and linguistic competency
Octavio N. Martinez, MD, MPH, MBA and Rick Ybarra
        
1:10pm
Agency effect on the outcomes of mental health services for minority patients
Christopher R. Larrison, PhD, Susan L. Schoppelrey, PhD and Samantha Hack-Ritzo, MSW
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Mental Health

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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