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Manshadi, Fatemeh Dehghan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of conducting this qualitative research was to investigate Middle Eastern international students? perceptions of individual mental health counseling services at their colleges/universities in the U.S. An Interpretative Phenomenological Approach (IPA) developed by Smith et al. (2009) was used to analyze the data. Six participants (three…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mental Health, Counseling, Services
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Obasi, Ezemenari M.; Leong, Frederick T. L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
This article investigates the relationship between psychological distress, acculturation, and help-seeking attitudes among people of African descent (N = 130). Psychological distress was measured using the Global Severity Index from the Brief Symptom Inventory (L. R. Derogatis & N. Melisaratos, 1983), acculturation was measured using the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Psychological Services, Help Seeking
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Sue, Stanley – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
Cultural competency in the delivery of mental health services has gained considerable momentum. This momentum has been accompanied by questions about the meaning, usefulness, and precision of cultural competency. The author argues that cultural competency is composed of general processes (scientific mindedness, dynamic sizing, and culture-specific…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Child Health, Competence