Latina/o American Health and Mental Health
eBook - ePub

Latina/o American Health and Mental Health

Practices and Challenges

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Latina/o American Health and Mental Health

Practices and Challenges

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Latina/o American Health and Mental Health by Leticia Arellano-Morales Ph.D.,Erica T. Sosa in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & History & Theory in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781440854897
eBook ISBN
9798216109334

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Series Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1. Introduction
  10. Chapter 2. Patterns of Chronic Disease
  11. Chapter 3. Health Care Access and Delivery among Latina/o Populations
  12. Chapter 4. Community Efforts for Health Promotion in Latina/o Communities
  13. Chapter 5. Nontraditional Health Practices
  14. Chapter 6. Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders
  15. Chapter 7. Mental Health Barriers among Latina/os
  16. Chapter 8. Culture-Specific Interventions and Community Efforts
  17. Chapter 9. Nontraditional Mental Health Practices
  18. Chapter 10. Future Considerations
  19. Suggested Readings
  20. References
  21. Index