Q&A
Cultural sensitivity in mental health assessments and algorithms
4:33:39
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Council Member Linda Lee discusses the importance of cultural sensitivity in mental health assessments and algorithms. She shares her experience working on a grant to improve the cultural appropriateness of mental health diagnostic questions.
- Lee highlights that standard mental health assessments like PQ9 are based on Western approaches
- She mentions efforts to adjust questions to be more culturally friendly and effective
- The council member expresses interest in further examining the algorithms and trainings mentioned by the previous speaker
Linda Lee
4:33:39
It's interesting because, actually, when I was at KCS, we we were part of a grant where we looked at how questions were being asked to like, the pq9 that everyone uses to assess mental health diagnosis.
4:33:51
Even even that, right, is very it's a very western way of asking questions.
4:33:56
Right?
4:33:57
So we actually worked with some funders to rejigger the question so that it's more friendly to different cultures because they're not gonna answer in the in the right way.
4:34:06
Right?
4:34:06
If you just ask them bluntly or experiencing a mental you know, like, they're not gonna, you know, respond in the same way.
4:34:12
So to your point about the algorithms and the trainings, I'd I'd be curious to look that more.
4:34:18
And that's a good point.
4:34:19
I just wanna thank all of our advocates who are here today.
