This subject guide is intended to provide background information on the Hispanic/Latino population in the United States and more specifically in North Carolina. It is especially useful for clinicians who treat Spanish speaking patients.
Assessment and Intervention Resource for Hispanic Children
Assessment and Intervention Resource for Hispanic Children is an illuminating resource guide that presents important theory and research as it applies to the clinical process with clients who are communicatively impaired and bilingual. Written by a leading bilingual clinician, this insightful clinical manual provides pertinent, up to date information on bilingual populations. Normative data are presented in clear tabular format and numerous references and resources are included for bilingual and monolingual clinicians, clients, and parents.
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Format: Book
WL340.2 K18A 1998
Provider: Kayser, Hortencia
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
Website includes health information, data/statistics, and government publications.
Format: Website
Delivering Preventive Health Care to Hispanics: A Manual for Providers
A manual for health providers that gives state-of-the-art strategies for preventative health care delivery to Hispanic clients. The manual is designed for the time-pressured health professional, featuring a quick-reference highlight area on each page, and a summary of points to remember for each chapter.
Format: Book
WA300 D37 1996
Provider: National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations
An initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Hablamos Juntos was launched to help improve communication between health care providers and non-English speaking patients, in particular, the Latino population. The Website offer guidelines for developing materials in Spanish including a
poster with symbols for signage in navigating health facilities.
Format: Website
Provider: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Adobe Acrobat Reader required to download poster
Health Issues in the Latino Community
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.
Format: Book
WA300 H344 2001
Provider: Aguirre-Molina, Marilyn, Carlos W. Molina and Ruth Enid Zambrana
Hispanic Voices: Hispanic Health Educators Speak Out
This book was written to partially fill the existing lack of educational materials on the health care of Hispanics in the United States and to help health care professionals to recognize the diverse cultural dimensions involved in such care.
Format: Book
WY15 14-2693 1996
Provider: Torres, Sara
Latina Health in the United States : A Public Health Reader
Latina Health in the United States identifies and offers an in-depth examination of the most critical health issues that affect Latinas' health and health care within the United States. In this comprehensive resource, the contributors examine a wide variety of topics that address Latina women's health concerns such as sexual and reproductive health issues; chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes; the impact of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs; mental health issues; adolescent health; and rural and migrant occupational health.
Latina Health in the United States is a unique guide to the health and well-being of the women in our country's fastest growing population.
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Format: Book
WA309 L34 2003
Provider: Aguirre-Molina, Marilyn and Carlow W. Molina
Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality
A retrospective of fifteen years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Espín's previously published articles and conference papers. Together, these writings reveal the complexity and encompassing quality of Espín's most significant contributions to the contemporary debates within psychology. Topics include sexuality, therapy with Latinas and other women of color, immigrant and refugee women, ethnic minority and immigrant women of diverse sexual orientations, and theoretical perspectives on feminist psychology and diversity. Primarily focusing on the experiences of Latina women, gleaned from psychotherapy practice and research, the book presents discussions on experience as a source of theory and method in psychology; issues relevant to immigrant women and girls, such as sexuality and language; and other similar topics. Latina Realities is bound to be a valuable text for advanced courses exploring diversity in psychology and women's lives as well as a useful supplementary reading for introductory courses in psychology of women, women's studies, cultural psychology, and other gender or ethnic issues courses.
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WA309 Es65L 1997
Provider: Espín, Oliva
Latino Families in Therapy: A Guide to Multicultural Practice
Presenting an accessible and original framework for thinking about multiculturalism in therapy, this comprehensive volume provides valuable insights and strategies for therapists working with Latino families. Practitioners and students gain awareness of specific clinical issues, family dynamics, and sociopolitical realities that are frequently shared by Latino clients, while at the same time learning to avoid stereotypical assessments that rob families of their individual histories and choices. Filled with evocative case illustrations and clinical pointers, the book represents an important contribution to culturally sensitive psychotherapy practice.
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Format: Book
WM430.5F2 F18L 1998
Provider: Falicov, Celia Jaes
The aim of the
Latino Health Task Force was to study and address Latino health issues in North Carolina.
Format: Website
Provider: North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NC IOM)
The Latino Psychiatric Patient: Assessment and Treatment
This unique book helps mental health professionals acquire the knowledge, skills, and most important the cultural sensitivity necessary for treating Latino patients in the United States. The book can aid clinicians in learning to appreciate the importance of language, culture, religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity in psychiatric evaluation and care.
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Format: Book
WM140 L34 2001
Provider: Lopez, Alberto G. and Ernestina Carrillo
This site provides news, information on population, prevention/screening, specific conditions, research, and statistics.
Format: Website
Provider: National Library of Medicine (NLM)
As the nation's action forum for Hispanic health and well-being, the programs of the Alliance:
- Inform and mobilize consumers;
- Support providers in the delivery of quality care;
- Promote appropriate use of technology;
- Improve the science base for accurate decision making; and,
- Promote philanthropy.
The Alliance provides key leadership and advocacy to ensure accountability in these priority areas resulting in improved health for all throughout the Americas. The constituents of the Alliance are its members, Hispanic consumers, and the greater society that benefits from the health and well-being of all its people.
Includes news on Hispanic health care issues, publications for purchase, and target areas for initiatives.
Format: Website
The mission of the Office of Minority Health and Health Dispariities (OMHHD) is to promote and advocate for the elimination of health disparities among all racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations in North Carolina.
OMHHD focuses on:
- Research and Data
- Culture
- Language Services
- Policy Development
- Health Initiatives/Program/Services
- Communication, and
- Work Force Diversity
Format: Website
The mission of the
Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations (American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders) through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. Website includes information on health initiatives, funding opportunities, data/statistics, government publications, and conferences.
Format: Website
Provider: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Quality Health Services for Hispanics: The Cultural Competency Component
This monograph, authored by the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, helps health care professionals understand how culture affects the provision of high-quality and accessible services for this country's 30 million Hispanics. It discusses the importance of traditions and commonly shared language in cross-cultural communication.
Format: Book
WA300 Q25 2001
Provider: National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Deborah Guadalupe Duran, Guadalupe Pacheco, and Leonard G. Epstein
Spanish/English Patient Education Collection : Women and Infants.
Patient education handouts in English and Spanish, for the English-speaking practitioner to use with patients whose primary or only language is Spanish. Topics include pregnancy, birth control, and child care.
Format: Book
WA310 Sp24 1995
Provider: Painter, Sandra Jean, Sara N. Di Lima and Aspen Reference Group.
This thirty page document was developed for health and hospital administrators, facilities managers, architects and designers of wayfinding systems. The workbook covers the importance of universal symbols and the benefits they provide to hospitals and healthcare facilities. It offers practical suggestions for implementation taken from best practices in other fields that effectively use symbols as part of their navigation systems.
Format: Website
Provider: Hablamos Juntos with support from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Adobe Acrobat Reader required
This report provides a portrait of the Hispanic-origin population in the United States and discusses some of the Hispanic or Latino groups within this population at the national level. It is part of the Census 2000 Special Reports series that presents several
demographic, social, and economic characteristics collected from
Census 2000.
Format: Website
Provider: US Census Bureau
Adobe Acrobat Reader required
Working with Latino Youth: Culture, Development, and Context
Working with Latino Youth offers counselors, teachers, social workers, therapists, and other professionals-no matter what their level of experience or cultural background-an accessible and practical guide for working effectively with Latino children and adolescents. This vital resource, which integrates development, culture, and psychological intervention, helps meet the challenge of addressing an array of culturally specific problems such as assimilation, discrimination, scholastic failure, pregnancy, substance abuse, and delinquency. The authors, Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Luis A. Vargas, present a dynamic new model for working with Latino youth that considers the individual within the context of their families, their communities, and their culture.
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Format: Book
WA305 K84W 1999
Provider: Koss-Chioino, Joan D. and Luis A. Vargas
