To answer the question of what culturally sensitive mental health
research is, the author focuses on the entire process of research. He
argues that research is made culturally sensitive through a continuing,
incessant, and open-ended series of substantive and methodological
insertions and adaptations designed to mesh the process of inquiry with the
cultural characteristics of the group being studied. Illustrations include
pretesting and planning of research, collection of data and translation of
instruments, instrumentation of measures, and analysis and interpretation
of data. The insertions and adaptations ideally have a cumulative effect in
rendering individual projects culturally sensitive and in building
culturally informed research.
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