TY - JOUR
T1 - Running from the demon
T2 - Culturally specific group therapy for depressed hmong women in a family medicine residency clinic
AU - Danner, Christine
AU - Robinson, Beatrice (Bean) E
AU - Striepe, Meg I.
AU - Rhodes, Pang Foua Yang
PY - 2007/4/27
Y1 - 2007/4/27
N2 - This exploratory study utilized qualitative data from three sets of baseline and post-treatment focus groups to explore the expectations, perceptions, and experience of 14 Hmong women participants in therapy groups conducted in a primary care setting. This new therapy group intervention, based on relational/cultural theory and using narrative therapy, was designed to be culturally specific while striving for integration, and multidisciplinary in order to reflect the interconnection among an array of factors affecting mental health. Participants were generally positive in their assessment of the therapy group experience andmade few negative comments about the group. The data suggest that this intervention is effective in helping Hmong women to gain social and emotional support, be able to identify coping mechanisms, and integrate Western and Hmong practices.
AB - This exploratory study utilized qualitative data from three sets of baseline and post-treatment focus groups to explore the expectations, perceptions, and experience of 14 Hmong women participants in therapy groups conducted in a primary care setting. This new therapy group intervention, based on relational/cultural theory and using narrative therapy, was designed to be culturally specific while striving for integration, and multidisciplinary in order to reflect the interconnection among an array of factors affecting mental health. Participants were generally positive in their assessment of the therapy group experience andmade few negative comments about the group. The data suggest that this intervention is effective in helping Hmong women to gain social and emotional support, be able to identify coping mechanisms, and integrate Western and Hmong practices.
KW - Cultural theory
KW - Group therapy
KW - Hmong
KW - Refugee mental health
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U2 - 10.1300/J015v30n01_07
DO - 10.1300/J015v30n01_07
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34249674424
SN - 0270-3149
VL - 30
SP - 151
EP - 176
JO - Women and Therapy
JF - Women and Therapy
IS - 1-2
ER -