04/10/2024
Cultural responsiveness takes a sustained effort to include clients and embrace their feedback—to not reduce psychotherapy to the medical model equation of diagnosis plus prescriptive treatment equals cure, nor clients to cultural, ethnic, racial, gender stereotypes or pharmaceutical sponsored checklists, nor the proclivities of enlightened psychotherapists who know better than clients what they need.
While the case has been made that measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidenced-based intervention that improves outcomes and reduces dropouts (de Jong et al., 2021), and recently, that it provides a transparent collaborative process to engage clients in treatment (Boswell et al., 2023), it has not b...