APSY2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Intercultural Competence, Assertive Community Treatment

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: Julia Whitcavitch- Devoy

Document Summary

Treatment fidelity: treatment adherence, therapist competence, treatment differentiation. Assertive community treatment (act): ebp that improves outcomes for people with severe mental illness who are most at-risk of homelessness, psychiatric crisis and hospitalization, and involvement with the criminal justice system. What are some challenges: measurement issues, program typically designed for white, english speakers, minority groups under-represented in research studies, evaluation field not representative of the general population. Findings filtered through lens of evaluator who may not share similar beliefs and culture of the consumers of the program being evaluated. Discuss cultural competence, diverse team, pilot test. Data issues: missing data; large amounts of data. Analysis issues: following parameters of a test; confounding variables. Interpretation issues: translating into accessible language; clinical vs. practical significance: decide bounds for: highly effective, adequate, inadequate. Example: does participation in program launch reduce parental stress levels: pre/post quasi-experimental design. Group presentation april 27th in class: powerpoint presentation is approximately 15 minutes.