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The evolution of feedback: Toward a multicultural orientation.

Barry L Duncan¹, Robert J Reese²

¹Better Outcomes Now.

Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.)

|April 18, 2024

Summary

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Systematic client feedback in psychotherapy enhances multicultural competence by fostering cultural humility and addressing diversity. This approach integrates client responses to improve therapeutic outcomes and equity.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Psychotherapy Research
Cultural Competence

Background:

Psychology has advanced in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), yet translating these values into actionable psychotherapy practices remains a challenge.
Measurement-based care (MBC) is recognized for improving outcomes and client engagement but hasn't been widely explored for multicultural competence.
The evolution of patient-focused research highlights a shift towards appreciating feedback's communicative and idiographic processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose systematic client feedback as a methodology for enhancing multicultural competence in psychotherapy.
To demonstrate how client feedback can foster a multicultural orientation and cultural humility.
To illustrate the integration of a multicultural orientation using client examples.

Main Methods:

Tracing the evolution of patient-focused research and feedback processes.
Analyzing the transition from nomothetic to idiographic understanding of feedback.
Presenting client examples to illustrate the integration of systematic client feedback and multicultural orientation.

Main Results:

Systematic client feedback promotes a multicultural orientation at the therapist-client level.
Client responses to feedback measures can foster cultural humility and create opportunities to address sociocultural factors.
Feedback systems can provide a structure for discussing diversity, marginalization, and privilege in therapy.

Conclusions:

Systematic client feedback is a viable method for advancing multicultural competence in psychotherapy.
Integrating client feedback supports cultural humility and addresses systemic issues within therapy.
This approach offers a structured way to incorporate DEI principles into clinical practice.