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Empirical Status of Culturally Competent Practices

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Social Work Practice in the Addictions

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Effective prevention and treatment programs are rooted in each individual client, their families, and their larger social and cultural networks. This chapter considers the role of culture of origin in relation to resiliency and protection from substance abuse and addiction processes. Research findings suggest that substance abuse treatment and prevention interventions can be more effective when they are grounded in the clients’ culture. Further, cultural specific interventions tend to be more efficacious in recruiting and retaining participants and in attaining prevention and treatment goals. Specifying ways in which culture of origin can be successfully integrated into preventive interventions based on the empirical research literature in this area is delineated.

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Marsiglia, F.F., Booth, J. (2012). Empirical Status of Culturally Competent Practices. In: Vaughn, M., Perron, B. (eds) Social Work Practice in the Addictions. Contemporary Social Work Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5357-4_10

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