When working with clients of different cultural groups, you have to be careful that you do not pathologize behaviors that are normal in their culture. Textbook examples include diagnosing a Native American as psychotic because he is talking to dead relatives. Culturally, this may be accepted in his tribe as a way to process their death and grieve.
Cultural sensitivity goes a bit further though.
They had higher rates of phobias and somatization. Asian Americans had lower rates of schizophreniform disorder, mania and bipolar disorder, panic attacks, somatization, drug and alcohol abuse and dependence, and antisocial personality disorder. Hispanic Americans had lower rates of schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks, and drug and alcohol abuse and dependence. The Effects of Racism Racial discrimination compared to life stress and demographic variables was also studied in African Americans as it predicted psychiatric disorders. Clearly, this is an additional stressor that could lead to certain disorders more often than others, or require coping with certain skills that might also increase resistance to some disorders but lower resistance to others.