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Twelve Critical Concerns for Mental Health Professional Working With Ethno-Culturally Diverse Populations

The professor noted twelve challenges that continue to affect the world we live in today. It was an eye opener as culture still plays a strong role within the mental health professionals and yet, there is still a long road of knowledge lacking in being multicultural competent.

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Common Symptoms of Depression

As noted by the American Counseling Association depression is a common mental health disorder
affecting people of every walk of life regardless of age, race as well as ethnicity. Culture also plays a
strong role within depression symptoms so; mental health professionals must be aware of what
depression means among cultures.

The Detrimental Stress in the Human Body

Stress causes not only
psychological stress but also causing emotional affects to internal organs in the human body.