Behavioral Health Business February 21, 2025
While matching patients with clinicians of similar backgrounds improves outcomes and care satisfaction, staffing constraints often make this challenging.
Many providers have turned to practicing culturally responsive care as one way to improve connections between patients and providers who do not necessarily share lived experiences. Mental health providers use the practice to apply behavioral health techniques in a way that acknowledges and respects patients’ cultural backgrounds. Training programs and educational institutions are increasingly promoting cultural responsiveness – but work remains to be done in the behavioral health industry to fund and operationalize the practice.
Some behavioral health providers are staking their foundations on culturally responsive practices.
Virtual mental health provider Anise Health was created using cultural responsiveness as its premise....
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