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The need for service change and community outreach work to support trans-cultural cognitive behaviour therapy with Black and Minority Ethnic communities

Part of: Being an Anti-Racist CBT therapist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2019

Andrew Beck  and
Saiqa Naz
Andrew Beck*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Saiqa Naz
Affiliation:
Sheffield IAPT
*
Author for correspondence: Dr Andrew Beck, University of Manchester – Clinical Psychology, Zachonis Building, Manchester M13 9PL (email: andrew.beck@elht.nhs.uk).
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Abstract

Recently there have been a number of developments in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) that have led to cultural adaptations of specific interventions and a greater awareness of how in general CBT might be adapted for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) service users. These developments, however, involve change at the level of the individual therapist and particular treatment approach, but involve very few considerations of what needs to happen at the levels of teams or services in order to best meet the mental health needs of British South Asian and other BME populations. This paper summarizes the way that services need to understand how minority populations use services and how to involve those populations in developing services in order to ensure their needs are best met.

Keywords

CBTparticipationBlack and Minority Ethnic (BME)outcomesBritish South Asian

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Special Issue: Cultural Adaptations of CBT
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the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist , Volume 12 , 2019 , e1
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2019 

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