Providing Effective Services to the Underrepresented Populations

This presentation provides integrative, social, ecological, and cultural model for clinical and community mental health practitioners who work with underrepresented individuals and communities. Evidence-based and practice-oriented approaches will be detailed that embrace psychosocial realities and resources, and target more effective outcomes. An overview of the barriers and opportunities faced by practitioners will be offered, as well as strategies to strengthen working relationships, practitioners’ self-care, and the psychoeducation required to help build a sustained culture of prevention.

• Apply skills to work with underrepresented individuals and groups in urban and rural communities.
• Critically reflect on their values and attitudes from an integrative, social, ecological, cultural perspective.

Maria del Pilar Grazioso, PhD