Psychological Practice for People with Low-Income and Economic Marginalization
Publication Date: August 6, 2019
Last Updated: March 14, 2022
Guidelines
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Guideline 1: Psychologists strive to gain awareness of how their biases related to social class may impact the training and education they provide.
Guideline 2: Psychologists are encouraged to increase their knowledge and understanding of social class issues, including poverty and wealth, through continuing education, training, supervision, and consultation.
Guideline 2: Psychologists are encouraged to increase their knowledge and understanding of social class issues, including poverty and wealth, through continuing education, training, supervision, and consultation.
LIEM AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
Guideline 3: Psychologists strive to understand the contribution of economic and social marginalization to the substantial health disparities in our society.
Guideline 4: Psychologists strive to promote equity in the access to, and the quality of, healthcare available for people from LIEM backgrounds.
Guideline 4: Psychologists strive to promote equity in the access to, and the quality of, healthcare available for people from LIEM backgrounds.
TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS
Guideline 5: Psychologists acknowledge the presence of social class as a variable that is present in mental health treatment settings. Psychologists are encouraged to seek to:
Guideline 7: Psychologists strive to understand the common clinical presentations that may be more likely to occur among persons who are from LIEM populations and how best to address these in treatment settings.
a) understand how social class influences psychotherapists’ ability to effectively engage clients in treatment, and
b) attend to ways that social class differences manifest and impact the experience of mental health treatment for clients.
Guideline 6: Psychologists aim to understand the barriers that prevent persons with low SES from better accessing mental health care and make efforts to alleviate these barriers when providing psychological interventions and/or creating mental health care delivery systems.
b) attend to ways that social class differences manifest and impact the experience of mental health treatment for clients.
Guideline 7: Psychologists strive to understand the common clinical presentations that may be more likely to occur among persons who are from LIEM populations and how best to address these in treatment settings.
INTERSECTION OF LIEM WITH CAREER CONCERNS AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Guideline 8: Psychologists seek to understand the impact of social class on academic success, career aspirations, and career development throughout the lifespan.
Guideline 9: Psychologists seek to understand the interaction among economic insecurity, unemployment, and underemployment and attempt to contribute to re-employment processes for individuals.
Guideline 9: Psychologists seek to understand the interaction among economic insecurity, unemployment, and underemployment and attempt to contribute to re-employment processes for individuals.
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Overview
Title
Psychological Practice for People with Low-Income and Economic Marginalization
Authoring Organizations
Publication Month/Year
August 6, 2019
Last Updated Month/Year
January 31, 2024
Supplemental Implementation Tools
Document Type
Guideline
External Publication Status
Published
Country of Publication
US
Document Objectives
Assist psychologists in the provision of culturally competent care for those whose economic position has negatively impacted or constrained their health and well-being
Inclusion Criteria
Female, Male, Adolescent, Adult, Child
Health Care Settings
Ambulatory
Intended Users
Social worker, psychologist, counselor, nurse, nurse practitioner, physician, physician assistant
Scope
Counseling, Assessment and screening
Diseases/Conditions (MeSH)
D008603 - Mental Health, D000079225 - Psychological Distress
Keywords
psychological evaluations, Low-Income, Economic Marginalization