Anise Health: Digital Mental Health for Asian Americans
University of California, Berkeley
Summary
Aim 1: Assess clinicians' receptiveness and potential use of Anise's online platform digital tools for managing sociocultural stressors and revise the tools for implementation. We will recruit 8 new clinicians (intervention group) who will receive training and provide feedback on the digital tools. Aim 2: Evaluate the initial efficacy of the online platform digital tools for managing the impact of sociocultural stressors with 64 Asian American clients. The intervention group clinicians (receiving training and using the digital tools) and newly recruited 8 clinicians (not receiving training and not using the digital tools) for the control group will work with 4 clients each. The clinical outcome data of the clients will be analyzed to examine differences in the client prognosis between the control and intervention group. A successful outcome of this project will be digital materials that effectively address the impact of sociocultural stressors for Asian Americans on Anise Health's digital health platform.
Description
Unique sociocultural factors significantly impact the lived experiences and mental health of Asian Americans. Yet, these factors are often not considered or are overlooked in conventional evidence-based practices for psychotherapy. Ample research has found that these culture-specific stressors can give rise to psychopathology (e.g., depression, anxiety, trauma, problematic substance use) among Asian Americans. The current diagnosis-driven, Eurocentric models of psychotherapy often do not account for these sociocultural determinants of mental well-being and can lack cultural sensitivity, leadin…