Evidence-based practice in mental health care to ethnic minority communities: Has its practice fallen short of its evidence?

Social Work

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 297-306

  Aisenberg, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural competence; Evidence based practice; Mental health disorders; Mental health policy; Racial and ethnic minority groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349107224     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: 15456846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/53.4.297     Document Type: Review

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