Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved: Challenges and Strategies [Paperback]

Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underservedwill focus on the massive challenge of making psychotherapy available to underserved, often marginalized populations, both within and outside the United States.Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underservedexamines the challenging problem of providing psychotherapy services to underserved, often marginalized populations, both within and outside of the US. The book begins by addressing systemic factors that prevent certain populations from accessing services (health system issues, issues relating to the military, and natural and man-made disasters). Expert contributors then addresses those underserved due to discrimination (ethnic minorities, the economically disadvantaged, sexual and gender minorities, and so on). The following section of the book focuses on populations in transition and in undeserved locations (civilians and refugees of war, immigrants, and those in rural areas). Next are addressed those people who are often overlooked, such as children, older adults, and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Each of these chapters discusses the scope of the problem, barriers to service delivery, creating cultural competency, effective strategies and empirically-supported treatments, and future steps. The book closes by addressing ethical and research challenges relevant to bringing psychotherapy services to these groups.Section 1: Underserved by Systemic FactorsChapter 1: Health Systems Issues and the UnderservedGordon I. Herz and Charles GabaChapter 2: Delivering Psychological Services to Military MembersK.C. Kalmbach and Bret A. MooreChapter 3: Delivering Mental Health Assistance in the Wake of Natural and Man-Made DisastersAlec CecilSection 2: Underserved Due to DiscriminationChapter 4: Serving the Underserved: Delivering Culturally Appropriate Psychotherapy to Racial and Ethnic MinoritiesChangming DuanChapter 5: Bringing Psychotherapy to People Living in Pl³-