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Recognizing and treating depression in racial and ethnic minorities
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Overcoming challenges in diagnosis and treating depression in racial and ethnic groups
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Communication and person-centered, culturally competent care
Learning Objectives
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Interpret how depression can manifest itself in racial and ethnic minorities
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Identify appropriate depression screening, diagnosis, and treatment
options in the primary care settings
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Recognize ways to involve family and others in the patient’s support
system in therapy
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Demonstrate how a physician’s culture and their patients’ cultures can
affect diagnosis and treatment
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Develop strategies for effective physician-patient communication
Target Audience
Primary care physicians, general practitioners, family physicians, geriatric physicians, OB/GYNs, internists, pediatricians.
Course Directors
Annelle Primm, MD, MPH
Director, Minority/National Affairs, APA
Majose Carrasco, MPA
Director, NAMI Multicultural Action Center
Program Support
This program was developed jointly by the American Psychiatric Association and the National Alliance of Mental Illness. It is supported by a grant from Praxis Partnership, a consortium of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Vanderbilt University, and Indicia Medical Education, LLC. Praxis is funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
For more information, call 703-907-8639 or email abondurant@psych.org.