Cultural Adaptations: Tools for Evidence-Based Practice With Diverse Populations

This multiauthored work brings together the scholarly and the clinical in its analysis of two separate yet inextricably linked endeavors in psychology: the cultural adaptation of existing interventions and the movement toward evidence-based practice (EBP).

The unifying theoretical framework of this volume promotes culturally adapted EBPs as productive and empirically viable approaches to treating ethnic minorities and culturally diverse groups. Chapter authors describe cultural adaptations of conventional EBPs for a variety of psychological problems across a wide range of cultures and ethnicities--Latino/as, Chinese, African Americans, and American Indians among them.

Cultural Adaptations will appeal to clinicians who treat an ethnically and culturally diverse clientele, as well as to researchers, scholars, and students, who will value the conceptual and methodological discussions of evidence-based psychological practice and cultural adaptations of psychotherapeutic techniques.

Guillermo Bernal, PhD, is professor of psychology and director of the Institute for Psychological Research at the University of Puerto Rico. His work has focused on training, research, and the development of mental health services responsive to ethnocultural groups.

Dr. Bernal has over 140 scholarly publications. He has received the American Family Therapy Academy Distinguished Contribution to Family Systems Research award (2009) and has been honored as an Elder of the National Multicultural Conference and Summit (2013). He obtained his doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1978) and is a fellow of APA (Divisions 45, 12, 27).

Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Utah State University.

Her work has focused on research, teaching, practice, and training with diverse populations. For her clinical research and training, she has specialized in the Parent Management Training-Oregon model, and evidence-based parenting intervention. She has also made substantive contributions to teaching, research, and training in professional ethics.

Dr. Domenech Rodríguez obtained her doctoral degree at Colorado State University (1999) and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Family Research Consortium-III. She is a fellow of APA (Division 45).