Solving Latino Psychosocial And Health Problems

Author : Kurt C. Organista
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780470140413

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Solving Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems by Kurt C. Organista Pdf

The most current and relevant best practices for working with diverse groups within Latino culture It is estimated that in just two generations, the United States will follow Mexico with the second largest Latino population in the world. Optimistic and timely, Solving Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems addresses the social welfare of this important ethnic community. Noted expert Kurt Organista employs a practice-oriented approach to addressing the interwoven psychosocial and health-related concerns that impact this community and offers thoughtful and much-needed solutions. This important book realistically considers the Latino community's imposing and rapidly growing population size, complex set of challenging issues, and the tremendous diversity between and within each major U.S. Latino group. Section I applies a series of highly relevant frameworks to deepen your understanding of the historical and current cultural and social experiences of diverse Latino populations in the United States, ending with a unique practice model for working with Latinos. Section II provides detailed illustrations of the best and most promising practices for working with various Latino populations. A must-read for practitioners, students, and policy makers, Solving Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems richly embraces the distinctness of the wide range of Latino ethnic identities in the United States and provides a practical and thought-provoking resource relevant to a broad range of helping professionals.

Author : Kurt C. Organista
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0190059648

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Solving Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems by Kurt C. Organista Pdf

This book responds to the increasing need to understand Latino positionality in the U.S. in order to effectively serve Latinos in ways responsive to the cultural and social realities of diverse Latino populations. Author Kurt C. Organista responds to the needs of social and human service providers to be more effective in their increasing practice with Latino clients, as well as to professional mandates to teach multicultural theory and practice throughout the social sciences.

Author : Hector Y. Adames,Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317529798

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Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental Health by Hector Y. Adames,Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas Pdf

Advancing work to effectively study, understand, and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population, this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as, their diversity in skin-color and physiognomy, racial identity, ethnic identity, gender differences, immigration patterns, and acculturation. The work highlights how the complexities inherent in the diverse Latino/a experience, as specified throughout the topics covered in this volume, become critical elements of culturally responsive and racially conscious mental health treatment approaches. By addressing the complexities, within-group differences, and racially heterogeneity characteristic of U.S. Latino/as, this volume makes a significant contribution to the literature related to mental health treatments and interventions.

Author : Leticia Arellano-Morales Ph.D.,Erica T. Sosa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9798216109334

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Latina/o American Health and Mental Health by Leticia Arellano-Morales Ph.D.,Erica T. Sosa Pdf

Essential reading for health and mental health administrators, community agencies, and policy makers as well as students and general interest readers, this book details the state of the physical and mental health of many Latina/o American groups. While Latina/o Americans originate from more than 25 countries, most health or mental health texts largely focus on Mexican Americans and often fail to address other Latina/o groups, such as South Americans, Central Americans, Puerto Ricans, and others. Moreover, most works address either health or mental health, but not both together. In contrast, Latina/o American Health and Mental Health addresses both the health and mental health of diverse Latina/o heritage groups. An interdisciplinary approach enables readers to identify both similar and divergent areas that affect the health and mental health of Latina/o Americans. Strengths-based and social justice perspectives, rather than a deficit perspective, guide the work in its assessment of disparities among treatment for different groups. This text is ideal for graduate students, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in public health, community health, family studies, psychology, counseling, social work, and Latina/o studies who are interested in understanding Latina/o health and mental health in the United States and providing culturally responsive services.

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313364914

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Health Care by Ilan Stavans Pdf

Ilan Stavans has amassed a collection of cutting-edge articles that inform readers about how Latinos navigate both the mainstream medical arena and culturally specific healing traditions. This work highlights the myriad problems Latinos face in becoming fully acculturated consumers of health care. Its series of chapters by expert contributors bridges the communication gap between mainstream medical professionals who need to understand the Latino worldview and Latinos that need to adapt to the puzzling complexity of providers and insurers that make up the American health care system. Backed by research using quantitative methods and other techniques, Health Care's seven chapters cover topics ranging from infant care to teenage dating and sexual mores to prescription medication use by older adults. Much of the coverage focuses on problems of access and the ways in which Latinos move between mainstream health care, and the world of traditional remedies provided by botánicas (shops specializing in herbs and other healing items) and curanderos (folk healers).

Author : Ranna Parekh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461489184

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The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health by Ranna Parekh Pdf

Long considered important for professionals working with minority and under-represented populations, cross-cultural competency has become a requisite for all health care providers. As society in the US increasingly diversifies, there is a crucial need to prepare health care professionals to effectively treat this changing population. The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health addresses the importance and relevance of cultural sensitivity in US mental health. Prominent researchers and clinicians examine the cultural and cross-cultural mental health issues of Native American, Latino, Asian, African American, Middle Eastern, Refugee and LGBQT communities. The discussion includes understanding the complexities in making mental health diagnoses and the various meanings it has for the socio-cultural group described, as well as biopsychosocial treatment options and challenges. In understanding the specific populations, the analysis delves into overarching concepts that may apply to specific populations and to those at the intersection of multiple cultures. An invaluable resource for mental health professionals, including clinicians, researchers, educators, leaders and advocates in the United States, The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health provides the necessary understanding and insights for research and clinical practice in specific cultural and multicultural groups.

Author : Pamela Balls Organista,Gerardo Marin,Kevin M. Chun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781538101124

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Multicultural Psychology by Pamela Balls Organista,Gerardo Marin,Kevin M. Chun Pdf

Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate courses, Multicultural Psychology, second edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to the field. This research-based and highly applied text aims to increase students’ sensitivity, awareness, and knowledge of ethnicity, race, and culture and their influence on human behavior and adjustment. A diverse and highly respected team of authors effortlessly weaves together theory with the latest research on ethnic and racial minority groups. Engaging boxes throughout the chapters also highlight key concepts and findings and their practical applications. New to This Edition: • Expanded discussion on the interactive effects of key social variables on ethnic and racial groups’ attitudes, norms, values, and behaviors. • Additional sections on topics such as ethnic disparities in health care quality and access and psychological approaches to reducing racism. New coverage of ethnic and racial minority group members who also share other minority statuses (e.g., sexual and gender minorities) and additional coverage of biculturalism and multicultural and multiracial individuals’ identity formation. • Reorganized table of contents to better reflect a developmental learning approach. • Updated content to include recent research in psychology and related fields (e.g., new acculturation models, an ecological model of health behavior, sociocultural issues in sexual identity formation, and other culture-related syndromes). • Revised ancillaries—written by the authors—include an instructor’s manual, test bank, MS PowerPoint slides, and a new open access Companion Website

Author : Ruth Enid Zambrana
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801461521

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Latinos in American Society by Ruth Enid Zambrana Pdf

It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education affect the well-being of families and individuals. By mapping out how these factors result in economic, social, and political disadvantage, Zambrana challenges the widespread negative perceptions of Latinos in America and the single story of Latinos in the United States as a monolithic group. Synthesizing an increasingly substantial body of social science research—much of it emerging from the interdisciplinary fields of Chicano studies, U.S. Latino studies, critical race studies, and family studies—the author adopts an intersectional "social inequality lens" as a means for understanding the broader sociopolitical dynamics of the Latino family, considering ethnic subgroup diversity, community context, institutional practices, and their intersections with family processes and well-being. Zambrana, a leading expert on Latino populations in America, demonstrates the value of this approach for capturing the contemporary complexity of and transitions within diverse U.S. Latino families and communities. This book offers the most up-to-date portrait we have of Latinos in America today.

Author : Thomas L. Sexton,Jay Lebow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781136340123

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Handbook of Family Therapy by Thomas L. Sexton,Jay Lebow Pdf

Integrative, research-based, multisystemic: these words reflect not only the state of family therapy, but the nature of this comprehensive handbook as well. The contributors, all well-recognized names who have contributed extensively to the field, accept and embrace the tensions that emerge when integrating theoretical perspectives and science in clinical settings to document the current evolution of couples and family therapy, practice, and research. Each individual chapter contribution is organized around a central theme: that the integration of theory, clinical wisdom, and practical and meaningful research produce the best understanding of couple and family relationships, and the best treatment options. The handbook contains five parts: • Part I describes the history of the field and its current core theoretical constructs • Part II analyzes the theories that form the foundation of couple and family therapy, chosen because they best represent the broad range of schools of practice in the field • Part III provides the best examples of approaches that illustrate how clinical models can be theoretically integrative, evidence-based, and clinically responsive • Part IV summarizes evidence and provides useful findings relevant for research and practice • Part V looks at the application of couple and family interventions that are based on emerging clinical needs, such as divorce and working in medical settings. Handbook of Family Therapy illuminates the threads that are common to family therapies and gives voice to the range of perspectives that are possible. Practitioners, researchers, and students need to have this handbook on their shelves, both to help look back on our past and to usher in the next evolution in family therapy.

Author : Marilyn Aguirre-Molina,Carlos W. Molina,Ruth Enid Zambrana
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780787960278

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Health Issues in the Latino Community by Marilyn Aguirre-Molina,Carlos W. Molina,Ruth Enid Zambrana Pdf

Sweeping in scope, Health Issues in the Latino Community identifies and offers an in-depth examination of the most critical health issues that affect Latino's health and health care within the United States. This resource offers a comprehensive approach that informs and promotes the advancement of the practice, program planning, research, and public policy to improve health care of all Latino citizens.

Author : Nancy A. Piotrowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Medicine and psychology
ISBN : PSU:000067331031

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Salem Health by Nancy A. Piotrowski Pdf

This comprehensive five-volume set covers notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and various mental illnesses or conditions --from publisher description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105222566437

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Border-lines by Anonim Pdf

Border-Lines is an interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to the dissemination of research on Chicana/o-Latina/o cultural, political, and social issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UIUC:30112086645162

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Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jorge G. García,María Cecilia Zea
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040644604

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Psychological Interventions and Research with Latino Populations by Jorge G. García,María Cecilia Zea Pdf

Describes concepts of Latino psychology, interventions and research with Latino groups living in the USA. This text incorporates a wide range of psychological interventions which address current challenges in the mental health, health psychology and rehabilitation psychology of Latinos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social service
ISBN : UCSC:32106019293247

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Encyclopedia of Social Work by Anonim Pdf