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Multiculturally Conscious Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Proposed Treatment Intervention for Latino and Mexican-American Families Affected by Childhood Cancer

Bisetty, Merushka
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9205-932X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1527527955816642

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2018, Psy. D., Antioch University, Antioch Santa Barbara: Clinical Psychology.
Childhood cancers remain the number one cause of death by disease in children across the world (National Cancer Institute, 2018). Childhood cancers affect children and families of all ages, cultures, and socioeconomic demographics. Although literature exists on various styles of therapeutic and emotional support for families affected by childhood cancer, the data are extremely sparse and a comprehensive meta-analysis of culturally relevant psychosocial support efforts specific to Mexican-American and Latino children and families does not exist. This paper will provide thoroughly researched psychosocial interventions and best practices specific to families affected by childhood cancer. The paper will build on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a transdiagnostic and third wave branch of behavioral intervention. The writer proposes a treatment approach that incorporates culturally sensitive themes for use with Latino and Mexican-American families impacted by childhood cancer. An emphasis will be placed on concepts related to familismo, personalismo, respeto, simpatia, and the belief in fatalism as a means of dealing with the cancer experience. The intervention will focus on religion, spirituality, and family narratives, as well as curative and traditional foods found to provide a sense of healing and nurturing to most individuals and families within the Latino and Mexican-American cultures. These constructs and values will be interwoven into each of the six weekly sessions of the culturally conscious ACT modality. This will be done to emphasize the unique needs and constructs of the Latino and Mexican-American cultures in hopes of creating efficacious psychosocial treatment. This Dissertation is available in Open Access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, http://aura.antioch.edu and OhioLink ETD Center, http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd
Betsy Bates Freed, Psy.D (Committee Chair)
Daniel Schwartz, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Daniel Greenfield, M.D. (Committee Member)
85 p.
Clinical Psychology; Families and Family Life; Health Care; Multicultural Education; Oncology; Psychology; Religion; Spirituality
Childhood cancer; cancer; oncology; pediatrics; culture; multicultural education; Latino; Latina; Mexican; Mexican-American; psychosocial; intervention; acceptance and commitment therapy; clinical psychology; families; family life; healthcare; religion

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  • Bisetty, M. (2018). Multiculturally Conscious Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Proposed Treatment Intervention for Latino and Mexican-American Families Affected by Childhood Cancer [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1527527955816642

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bisetty, Merushka. Multiculturally Conscious Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Proposed Treatment Intervention for Latino and Mexican-American Families Affected by Childhood Cancer. 2018. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1527527955816642.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bisetty, Merushka. "Multiculturally Conscious Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Proposed Treatment Intervention for Latino and Mexican-American Families Affected by Childhood Cancer." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1527527955816642

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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