Mental Health Care for Latin or Hispanic Americans Megan E. Gillard Texas A & M International University Abstract The Hispanic population in the United States has rapidly increased over the last decade and is underrepresented and cared for in mental health services. By understanding their culture and learning about the environment they live in therapists can better meet the patient’s needs. This paper covers Historical content‚ Family structure‚ Education‚ Rates of Psychiatric Disorders
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Whether you choose to refer to our immigrants from the south as Hispanics‚ Latino ’s or their actual ethnicity‚ we cannot deny that they are growing in numbers at a accelerated rate in the U.S. Education‚ television‚ politics‚ to the local supermarket are starting to cater more and more to the Hispanic market. If your one of the few still with basic television services‚ you will notice that there are only about seven channels. Out of that seven‚ there are at least three Spanish channels; even HBO
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Stereotypes Against Hispanics Throughout time most Latin Americans have been seen as an undereducated and naïve race. For instance the type of job an American citizen would have wouldn’t be recommended for a Hispanic‚ because society has adjusted to them only doing the jobs they are good at. These so called “good” jobs are actually low-wage jobs that in an economy like the one today would not be able to support a family. Today Latin Americans have created a better name for themselves and are no
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The Hispanic Challenge The persistent inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples‚ two cultures‚ and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups‚ Mexicans and other Latinos have not assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture‚ forming instead their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and rejecting the AngloProtestant values that built the American dream. The United States ignores this challenge at its peril. By Samuel P. Huntington
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The Hispanic community in the United States is multi-national one‚ representing many different nationalities from places as varied as the Caribbean‚ Central and South America. Despite this variety Hispanics share many of the same cultural views in terms of how to handle subjects such as childbirth‚ aging and disability. These shared cultural values effect the way how they utilize health care. In this paper we will discuss the cultural value of "familism" and how it relates to the usage of health
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Diversity in the Hispanic Culture Diversity in the Hispanic Culture The Hispanic community accounts for the largest minority in the United States. The United States Census Bureau reported as of July 2006‚ the percentage of Hispanics in the nation had grown to 15. This percentage excludes the 3.9 million Puerto Ricans whom call America their home. This number puts the United States ranking third worldwide for largest Hispanic populations‚ with Mexico and Colombia holding the first and second
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Who Constitute the Hispanics? The term ‘Hispanic’ recognizes people whose cultural ancestry lies first in Spain and then in the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America which comprises of Mexico‚ Central America and most of South America except Brazil‚ and several Caribbean nations. The term gained wide spread prominence only after the 1960s. (Jorge Iber‚ 2005:6). Spanish and Portuguese explorers and settlers began to arrive in America in the early 1500s. With the intermingling of different communities
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you ever wondered what goes on in the hispanic culture? If so ‚ my research paper will be very informative to the reader with facts and details on that specific topic . I Chose this culture because ‚ I have always been a big fan of learning about Hispanics. Especially on how they manage to make it in America with the big change . The following will be addressing hispanic and latino families ‚ wedding customs ‚ housing ‚ recipes ‚ and holidays. Families Hispanics families varies in many ways ; no two
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how diabetes is disease that affects most Hispanics/Latinos. It will discuss their statistics against the disease and other health problems it causes. It will tell you how serious of a disease it is but with detection and treatment may save lives. KEYWORDS: diabetes‚ Hispanic/Latino‚ disease‚ detection The Effects That Diabetes Have on Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and the Risks They Face as a Community Research Diabetes in Latino/Hispanics is a major health problem in the United States
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Assuming the demographic changes about Hispanics are accurate‚ comment on how this shift changes the segmentation in the grocery and the fast food industries. For example‚ if a grocery store that you visit frequently currently has about 15% of its space dedicated to Hispanics should that be changed now in light of the demographic research? Be sure to use key demographic and lifestyle facts and figures about these markets and their consumers. The Hispanic population in the U.S. has been growing for
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