In Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos: Issues and Examples of
Culturally Competent Services, you will learn how to design and
improve services for Latinos with substance abuse problems by
understanding that the cultures and personal backgrounds of your
clients are crucial to the counseling process. This text will also
show you how these service skills apply to the individual, family,
or an entire community. Studies show that, according to patients,
culturally sensitive and responsive practitioners are generally
more credible, trusted, and effective. Alcohol Use/Abuse Among
Latinos takes into account several different aspects that will help
you develop these traits and provide successful services for
Latinos dealing with alcohol or other drug problems. You'll gain
valuable insight into: the five elements that are vital to a
successful ATOD (Alcohol, tobacco and Other Drug)
service--multiculturism, resilience/strengths, competence,
community capacity development, and community participation--plus a
detailed explanation of why they are needed step-by-step
instructions for using three methods, supervision, inservice
training, and consultation, as means of providing ongoing learning
of cross-cultural competencies to practitioners why key factors
such as economic background, gender, and sexual orientation need to
be taken into consideration for ATOD services to be effective
demographic patterns and case studies of Latino users and abusers
of alcohol and other drugs that illustrate the growing number of
Latinos in need of ATOD services why the practitioner needs to be
aware of how family importance, values attached to cooperation
versus competition, sociability, respect, and action-oriented
problem-solving play a role in effective services for Latinos the
need for practitioners to understand how ethnic identity,
biculturality, Spanish language fluency, gender-specific role
expectations, skin color, and overall sense of self can affect the
success of services for Latino teenagers how excessive marketing of
alcohol to Latino communities, lack of representation, and a lack
of community involvement are key barriers to successful ATOD
services for LatinosAlcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos also discusses
Latino mens'and womens'individual needs concerning substance abuse.
One of the topics addressed, the loss of self-esteem, has been
found to be a contributing factor to alcohol use and abuse for
Latinas. It offers ways you can promote self-esteem in your Latina
clients by focusing on their cultural heritage and pride. In
addition, this text takes a unique look Latina lesbians and how
training through educational and agency internship programs can
promote awareness to your clients' special needs concerning
substance abuse. Alcohol Use/Abuse Among Latinos will help you
provide all of your Latino clients with efficient and
culture-friendly services for resisting or overcoming the abuse of
alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.
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