<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/podcast-series-episode-5-need-for-multicultural-mental-health-in-increasingly-diverse-society.html" dsn="news"><title>Conversations, Episode 5: The Need for Multicultural Mental Health in our Increasingly Diverse Society</title><item_date>05/05/2016 12:00:00 PM</item_date><author>Dr. Mari Carmen Bennasar and Dr. Jill Bloom</author><image><img src="/news/images/podcast5-bennasar-bloom.png" alt="Nicholas Covino speaks with Mari Carmen Bennasar and Jill Bloom"/></image><image_caption>Dr. Mari Carmen Bennasar (far left) and Dr. Jill Bloom (far right) discussing the need for Multicultural Mental Health in our Increasingly Diverse Society.</image_caption><thumbnail><img src="/news/images/podcast5-bennasar-bloom.png" alt="Nicholas Covino speaks with Mari Carmen Bennasar and Jill Bloom"/></thumbnail><summary>Dr. Covino chats with Dr. Mari Carmen Bennasar, Director of the Lucero Latino Mental Health Program and Dr. Jill Bloom, the Co-Director of the Center for Multicultural &amp; Global Mental Health to discuss the disparities that exist among ethnic minority groups and other marginalized populations in terms of mental health treatment, both in the U.S. and across the globe.</summary><category>Research &amp; Advocacy</category><featured/><tags><tag>Research &amp; Advocacy</tag></tags></item>