Improving Satisfaction, Engagement and Outcomes Among Traditionally Underserved Children Through Cultural Formulation

The project at the center of this proposal will leverage a pilot randomized design to examine initial feasibility and preliminary effects of augmenting usual mental health evaluation procedures with a structured person-centered assessment tool that specifically considers the cultural context of patient mental health problems (i.e., the Cultural Formulation Interview; CFI) on parent satisfaction, engagement and clinical child outcomes in the treatment of early child behavior problems. Additional analyses will explore whether traditional barriers (e.g., stigma, ethnic identity, and daily stress) moderate the effects of the CFI on satisfaction, engagement and treatment outcomes.