Improving Cultural Congruency Across the Mental Healthcare Delivery Network-Welcome Remarks

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Madonna Delfish, a senior program manager at the APA's Division of Diversity and Health Equity, introduces Dr. Regina James, a leader in mental health equity, who initiates a conference focused on cultural congruency in mental health care. Dr. James underscores the importance of understanding power dynamics and practicing cultural humility. She highlights cultural congruent care as involving active listening and addressing language barriers. Dr. Yolanda Lawson, a longtime advocate for health equity and keynote speaker, is introduced as an influential leader whose career has been shaped by experiences of inequity observed in medical settings. The conference aims to operationalize these principles in clinical practice.

Keywords

mental health equity

cultural congruency

cultural humility

health equity

language barriers