Issues and challenges in the design of culturally adapted evidence-based interventions

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 213-239

  Castro, Felipe González ^a,b   Barrera, Manuel ^a   Holleran Steiker, Lori K ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation models; Cultural adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; THERAPY EFFECT;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CULTURE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 77952910265     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-033109-132032     Document Type: Review

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