Cultural Adaptations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

In increasingly multicultural societies, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) must be made appropriate for diverse groups. This article examines cultural adaptations of CBT, focusing on anxiety and depressive disorders. The article presents a culturally informed, transdiagnostic model of how anxious-d...

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Published inThe Psychiatric clinics of North America Vol. 40; no. 4; p. 701
Main Authors Hinton, Devon E, Patel, Anushka
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.2017
Subjects
Anxiety Disorders - ethnology
Anxiety Disorders - therapy
Cognitive Therapy - methods
Culturally Competent Care - methods
Depressive Disorder - ethnology
Depressive Disorder - therapy
Humans
Cultural adaptation
Minority populations
Refugees
CBT
Culture
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Summary:In increasingly multicultural societies, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) must be made appropriate for diverse groups. This article examines cultural adaptations of CBT, focusing on anxiety and depressive disorders. The article presents a culturally informed, transdiagnostic model of how anxious-depressive distress is generated and culturally shaped. Guided by this model, it discusses how interventions can be designed to decrease anxiety-type and depressive-type psychopathology in a culturally sensitive way. It describes such concepts as explanatory model bridging, cultural grounding, and contextual sensitivity.
ISSN:1558-3147
DOI:10.1016/j.psc.2017.08.006