Answer: C. Child-parent communication is not necessarily a core objective of a cultural assessment.

When treatments align with a family’s cultural values, practices, and resources, both their efficacy and patient adherence to them increase.

The cultural psychotherapeutic framework is based on the idea that successful treatment is founded on shared (between family and clinicians) understanding of a child’s problems and goals, and of the therapeutic interventions that can be used to address them.

Key points:
• For effective treatment, set culturally informed treatment goals with the family
• Examining the family’s cultural view may increase long-term adherence and investment in treatment
• A useful strategy to obtain this information is through the cultural formulation now expanded in DSM-5. Not conducting such a cultural exploration can lead to premature rupture of the therapeutic relationship

Pediatric ADHD and the Cultural Psychotherapeutic Model

,” by Martin J. La Roche, PhD, Olivia Carrick, MD, and Paul Hammerness, MD, on which this quiz was based.

Cultural Psychiatry

ADHD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Quizzes

What are the benefits of exploring cultural issues with a young patient and family before proceeding with treatment?