Primary factors
Mechanisms Underlying Disparities
Protective Mechanisms for Youth Mental Health
Role of Practitioners Within the Clinical Encounter
Mixed Category
100

A parent of low-socioeconomic status has to do this to support their family 

What is work multiple jobs

100

one of the biggest contributors to mental health difficulties among minority groups

what is socioeconomic status

100

This protective factor provides children with appropriate warmth, monitoring, support, safety, and encouragement which fosters resilience

What is Positive Home and School Environments?

100

This attitude that practitioners can use to demonstrate a commitment to the practice of cultural competence is based on using a variety of verbal and nonverbal responses, approaches, or styles to suit the cultural context of the client

What is Flexibility?

100

What are racial and ethnic minority youths less likely to receive when they go to a hospital which discourages health care use

What is quality care?

200

Maltreatment, parental incarceration, neighborhood violence and parental instability are examples of this 

What are exposure to childhood adversities 

200

a belief that makes minority groups less likely to seek mental health treatment

what is cultural stigma

200

The formation of emotional connections among family members through consistent and structured family routines can be positively influenced by this

What is Stable Parental Mental Health?

200

This attitude that practitioners can use to demonstrate a commitment to the practice of cultural competence is based on understanding the client’s experiences of racism, stereotyping, and discrimination

What is Sensitivity?

200

Adult gatekeepers of mental health services such as caregivers, teachers, doctors, and service providers should do this to help promote positive mental health among youth

What is identifying mental health needs and facilitating referrals and access to services?

300

This should be done in order to help families with exposure to adversities 

What is maintain close relationships between the mental health and educational system and work with the child and family as a whole. 

300

reflecting on what one knows about a particular group and what one does not know about the unique values, experiences, meanings, and goals of the individual in the therapy room, regardless of their group membership

cultural humility

300

This is associated with stronger social networks, greater access to resources, and increased civic engagement

What is religious and community involvement of youths as well as their parents?

300

This therapeutic tool is a visual depiction of the relationships between individuals and their support networks, which practitioners can use to conceptualize the client’s relationships—both positive and negative—and note the flow or lack of resources the client has

What is an Ecomap?

300

This attitude that practitioners can use to demonstrate a commitment to the practice of cultural competence is based on maintaining a nonjudgmental attitude toward the client

What is Acceptance? 

400

Implicit bias and how it influences practitioners’ cultural competence 

What is occurs below conscious awareness and leads to the belief that minorities are less intelligent, more violent, more likely to abuse drugs, etc, lowers cultural competence. 

400

Someone who stands in the way of an adolescent seeking mental health resources.

Guardian gatekeeper

400

A process that fosters positive identity in youth by teaching them about race and ethnicity

What is racial and ethnic socialization?

400

This is a clinical approach in which practitioners uphold four principles to help clients make behavioral changes: express empathy and avoid arguing, develop discrepancy, roll with resistance, and support the client’s self-efficacy

What is Motivational Interviewing?

400

This can act as a buffer against the harm that risk factors impose

What are safe and supportive environments and relationships 

500

The consequences of unexamined implicit bias 

What are wrongful diagnoses, excessive placement in the prison pipeline, culturally insensitive care, and many more. 

500

physicians should practice this to deconstruct their own biases when it comes to serving minority populations.

what is being self-aware of their own biases.
500

A practitioner should do this to ensure positive mental health outcomes among youth

What is looking for and connecting youth with a variety of positive adult role models in a child’s family, school, community, or religious group to provide the necessary assistance and support?

500

Practitioners should adopt this framework, which broadly considers the complex interplay between individual, family, community, social, cultural, and political factors and relationships between these variables in promoting positive outcomes

What is the Social Ecological Framework?

500

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What is Marston