Included here are downloadable evidence-informed worksheets, exercises, and guidelines, for use in prevention, intervention, and educational/training contexts. We provide all resources for free courtesy of authors and copyright holders. Linked guidelines from Harvard Medical School and the American Psychological Association are free to the public.
Resources on the page come from work based at either McLean Hospital and/or Boston Children’s Hospital.
For resources from McLean, many of these resources were created, strengthened, and supported by members of the McLean Hospital Multicultural Psychology Consultation Team. Resources have been piloted across numerous clinical and educational contexts.
Peer-reviewed academic articles that highlight some of these resources include:
Winer, JP, Wadsworth, LP, Forgeard, M, Pinder-Amaker, S, Bjorgvinsson, T, & Beard, C. (2018) Development and implementation of a single-session diversity and multicultural psychology group intervention within an academic psychiatric hospital. the Behavior Therapist.
Pinder-Amaker, SP, Winer, JP, Wadsworth, L, Nevins, C, Peckham, A, Nota, J, & Beard, C. (2023) Making an MPCT: Building and sustaining a multicultural psychology consultation team (MPCT) within an academic medical center. Harvard Review of Psychiatry.
*********As significant training, practice, and systems-level support is often required in order to implement and sustain these tools effectively please consult with your team, supervisor(s), and colleagues before implementing in a clinical, educational, or professional development setting. Please consider reaching out to Dr. Jeff Winer or members of the McLean Hospital MPCT if you seek further consultation or training about these resources.*********
Worksheets focused on social and cultural identities self assessment based on the ADDRESSING Framework developed by Dr. Pamela Hays:
ADDRESSING Identities Worksheet and Self Assessment Version 1 (original version with introduction)
Worksheet focused on introducing the concepts of microaggressions, implicit bias, stereotype threat, and targeted identities (MIST):
Identities in Treatment Scale: Self-report form designed to assess patient demographic characteristics and sociocultural factors relevant to mental health care. Measure was developed and implemented originally at McLean Hospital.
To learn more about the development and implementation of the Identities in Treatment Scale refer to – Hom et al., 2022.
Identities in Treatment Scale Version 1
CBT-style strategies for responding to stigma and bias (1 page):
Strategies for Responding to Stigma and Bias Version 1
DBT-style strategies for responding to stigma and bias (3 pages):
DBT Strategies for Responding to Stigma and Bias Version 1
Strategies for Engaging Effectively with the Guilt of Privilege using DBT Skills:
Engaging with the Guilt of Privilege Version 1
Worksheet focused on examining the complex and context-dependent nature of social and cultural identities:
Social and Cultural Identities Can Be…
Worksheet focused on applying the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Triangle to unpacking experiences of identity-based threat:
Social and Cultural Identities CBT Triangle/Microaggression Exercise Version 1
Guiding agreements currently used by the McLean Hospital Multicultural Psychology Consultation Team (MPCT):
Multicultural Psychology Consultation Team (MPCT) Agreements Version 1
As members of the HMS community we (MPCT) fully affirm the aspirations espoused in HMS diversity statement:
Harvard Medical School Diversity Statement
As psychologists and behavioral health providers, we seek to enact and build upon the American Psychological Association’s 2017 Multicultural Guidelines: An Ecological Approach to Context, Identity, and Intersectionality, 2017:
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To support the dissemination and implementation of Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), members of the Boston Children’s Hospital Trauma and Community Resilience Center developed an implementation tool that anchors around the transcultural metaphor of a bowl of soup. Further description can be found in Winer, J.P., Mulder, L.A., Ellis B.H., – Forthcoming 2026
Multicultural Psychology 