How does this relate to mental health services’ professional responsibility to ethnic minorities?
Several writers have pointed out that clinicians who work with minority veterans need to understand the additional complications these veterans may have experienced. 5, 8, 12, 13 Being an ethnic minority in the military may increase stresses and stress reactions. It is therefore important for VA clinicians to assess what the experience of being an ethnic minority was like for that particular veteran. By only assessing for combat exposure, a VA clinician may miss some important aspects of the veteran’s problem. In fact, research has revealed that failure to assess race-related stressor experiences of Asian American Pacific Islander veterans could result in missing as much as 20% of the veteran’s PTSD symptoms. 10 As VA clinicians, it is our professional responsibility to make sure that we are assessing and treating the full range of problems faced by ethnic minority veterans. Professional responsibility in providing appropriate services to ethnic minority veterans also applies to Compen
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- What ethnic and racial categories should be used to estimate race and ethnicity, given the new OMB standards?
- How much funding targets children, ethnic/racial minorities, women, and other specific population groups?
- How does this relate to mental health services’ professional responsibility to ethnic minorities?
