TY - JOUR
T1 - Training mental health providers in cultural competence
T2 - A transformative learning process
AU - Pernell-Arnold, Anita
AU - Finley, Laurene
AU - Sands, Roberta G.
AU - Bourjolly, Joretha
AU - Stanhope, Victoria
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper describes a process evaluation of Partners Reaching to Improve Multicultural Effectiveness (PRIME), a 3-year, SAMHSA-funded Workforce Training Grant to Reduce Ethnic and Racial Disparities, 2002–2005, that sponsored a cultural competency training program supported by two universities and a state office of mental health and substance abuse. The training was designed
Funding Information:
Cultural competence training is viewed as a strategy to reduce cultural disparities in mental health (Dougherty, 2004). The purpose of this article is to examine the process of becoming more culturally competent. This process evaluation study applied Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity to logs written by four cohorts of mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation teams of administrators, mental health practitioners and peer providers who participated in intensive, multicultural, recovery-oriented, continuing education over a 10-month period. Participants submitted logs later coded using Bennett’s categories. A nonlinear process of group transformation from ethnocentric to ethnorelative was demonstrated. During The authors gratefully acknowledge funding received from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2002–2005 for the PRIME (Partners Reaching to Improve Multicultural Effectiveness) Workforce Training Grant to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Service, contract no. 1 SM54701-01.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Cultural competence training is viewed as a strategy to reduce cultural disparities in mental health (Dougherty, 2004). The purpose of this article is to examine the process of becoming more culturally competent. This process evaluation study applied Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity to logs written by four cohorts of mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation teams of administrators, mental health practitioners and peer providers who participated in intensive, multicultural, recovery-oriented, continuing education over a 10-month period. Participants submitted logs later coded using Bennett's categories. A nonlinear process of group transformation from ethnocentric to ethnorelative was demonstrated. During the initial and midpoints of the training, there was often a spike in ethnocentrism followed by acceleration in the movement toward ethnorelativism. Findings are discussed in relation to transformative learning theory and implications for design of multicultural training that promotes transformational, second order change are considered.
AB - Cultural competence training is viewed as a strategy to reduce cultural disparities in mental health (Dougherty, 2004). The purpose of this article is to examine the process of becoming more culturally competent. This process evaluation study applied Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity to logs written by four cohorts of mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation teams of administrators, mental health practitioners and peer providers who participated in intensive, multicultural, recovery-oriented, continuing education over a 10-month period. Participants submitted logs later coded using Bennett's categories. A nonlinear process of group transformation from ethnocentric to ethnorelative was demonstrated. During the initial and midpoints of the training, there was often a spike in ethnocentrism followed by acceleration in the movement toward ethnorelativism. Findings are discussed in relation to transformative learning theory and implications for design of multicultural training that promotes transformational, second order change are considered.
KW - Cultural competence training
KW - Multicultural education
KW - Multicultural training
KW - Psychiatric rehabilitation
KW - Transformational learning
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U2 - 10.1080/15487768.2012.733287
DO - 10.1080/15487768.2012.733287
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84873593474
SN - 1548-7768
VL - 15
SP - 334
EP - 356
JO - American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
JF - American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
IS - 4
ER -