Discuss the associations between psychotherapy and ethnicity. Why might some ethnic minority groups be less likely to seek psychotherapy?
What will be an ideal response?
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Most psychotherapies originated with, and are utilized by, European Americans. Even given the rapidly changing and growing populations of those in ethnic minority groups in the U.S., African, Asian, and Latino and Latina Americans are still less likely to utilize therapeutic services. Reasons for this include lack of information about service availability and/or lack of resources to pay for such services, distrust of (perhaps due to negative histories with) professionals, particularly those who are European American and/or male, language barriers which make therapist-client communication difficult, reluctance to open up to a person not of one's sex or ethnic group, and cultural inclinations towards other forms of problem solving, such as the use of religious approaches.
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