Representing the clinical state of the art in
culturally competent assessment and treatment, and providing important information on the four main racial/
ethnic minority groups (African Americans,
Asian Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Native Americans and Alaska Natives), the Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry synthesizes the collected wisdom from the editor's 10 years of teaching cultural psychiatry as a CME course with the professional experience of seven other contributors in using and teaching about DSM-IV's Outline for Cultural Formulation. Following an initial chapter about how the influence of culture affects every level of the mental health system, and how clinicians can gain…
