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Assessing hispanic mental health needs: Issues and recommendations
Author(s) -
HummDelgado Denise,
Delgado Melvin
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(198310)11:4<363::aid-jcop2290110410>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - premise , mental health , needs assessment , context (archaeology) , psychology , applied psychology , management science , sociology , psychiatry , engineering , social science , geography , epistemology , philosophy , archaeology
Abstract This article is based on the premise that culture‐specific needs assessment methodologies are necessary to obtain accurate, valid, and reliable results when studies are conducted in culturally different groups. Accordingly, the literature on needs assessment and on Hispanic psychology is reviewed, creating a synthesis prescriptive of the best strategies for the assessment of mental health needs of Hispanic populations. Traditional needs assessment methods are discussed in the context of the types of changes that must be made to render them culturally acceptable and useful with Hispanics. Conceptually, the important issue is that of being sensitive to the interplay between the effectiveness of the methodology and its impact within a given cultural setting.