Title Brief psychotherapy with the Latino immigrant client / Marlene D. de Rios

Published New York : Haworth Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations Contents An Anthropologist Becomes a Psychotherapist: Lessons from Shamanistic Healing -- Medical Anthropology Concepts -- The Biology of Hope -- Sociocultural and Psychological Assessment of the Latino Immigrant Managed Care Patient -- Acculturation Stress -- Socioeconomic Status of the Latino Client -- Migration and Mental Health -- Communication Style -- Ethnic Identity and Value Orientation -- Gender Issues -- Cultural Mores -- Health Beliefs and Practices -- Techniques That Work with the Spanish-Speaking Client -- The Social Status of the Therapist -- Gender of the Psychotherapist -- Metaphor and Misery: Does Everyone Think the Same Way? -- Cognitive Development and Schooling -- Metaphors: Some Examples -- The Typical Course of Therapy with the Spanish-Speaking, Time-Limited Patient -- Clinical Issues -- Pain Control and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Marital Problems Among Immigrants -- Attention Deficit Disorders with Hyperactivity -- Anxiety and Depression -- Anger Management -- Panic Disorders -- Sexual Dysfunction -- Psychopharmacology and the Spanish-Speaking Patient -- Rebellious Teens -- AIDS -- Alcohol, Tuberculosis, and the Spanish-Speaking Immigrant -- Useful Intervention Techniques for the Latino Alcoholic Client -- The Tuberculosis Patient -- Maria, the Murderer, and the Misogynist -- The Case -- The Therapy Process: The Client -- The Therapy Process: The Therapist -- The Non-Latino Psychotherapist and the Spanish-Speaking Patient -- Using Interpreters -- Hypnotic Inductions in English and Spanish Summary Understand the unique needs, beliefs, and values of your Latino immigrant clients!Brief Psychotherapy with the Latino Immigrant Client is a manual for the practicing psychotherapist or student, with tips on the assessment process and suggested interventions that work efficiently. With this book you will explore the influence of medical anthropological concepts on Latino immigrant populations in North America. The author draws on her experience as both a medical anthropologist and a licensed psychotherapist and on her extensive fieldwork in the Amazon for help in developing psychosoci Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Hispanic Americans -- Mental health services Brief psychotherapy. Immigrants -- Mental health services -- United States Hispanic Americans -- Mental health Mental health services. Psychotherapy, Brief -- methods Hispanic or Latino -- psychology Mental Disorders -- ethnology Mental Health Services Psychotherapy, Brief HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine. MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine. Mental health services Brief psychotherapy Hispanic Americans -- Mental health Hispanic Americans -- Mental health services Immigrants -- Mental health services SUBJECT United States Subject United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317789086 1317789083 9781315809281 1315809281 9781317789062 1317789067 9781317789079 1317789075

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