8 HOW WELL DO BOTH EVIDENCE- BASED PRACTICES AND TREATMENT AS USUAL SATISFACTORILY ADDRESS THE VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF DIVERSITY? Ethnic Minority Populations Have Been Neglected by Evidence-Based Practices Stanley Sue and Nolan Zone From the time of the 1978 President's Commission on Mental Health to the Surgeon General's (2001) and the President's New Freedom Commis- sion (2003) reports, ethnic disparities in mental health have been nationally publicized. The disparities concerned the unmet mental health needs of members of ethnic minority groups (i.e., African Americans, American Indi- ans, Asian Americans, and Latino[a]s). The reports concluded that the 329