Responding to the mental health needs of latino children and families through school-based services
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This article highlights the value and utility of school-based mental health services in addressing the unmet mental health needs of Latino children and families in the United States. To better understand our nation's rapidly growing Latino population, such critical factors as demographic characteristics, cultural values, and family structure are examined. Special attention is devoted to the daunting challenges and resultant trauma experienced by many of these children and families who have recently immigrated to this country from war-torn home-lands in Central America. The mental health status of Latino children is addressed, along with various service delivery issues and psychotherapeutic modalities to facilitate their personal adjustment and social adaptation in a culturally sensitive manner. The article concludes with the presentation of an innovative school-based mental health program that offers a range of services of demonstrated effectiveness in aiding Latino children and their families. Specific strategies for replicating the program model in other culturally diverse settings are also discussed.
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Delivering mental health services through the school system can address key financial and structural barriers that often prevent children from receiving needed services for mental health problems.
“Delivering mental health services through the school system, then, can address key financial and structural barriers that often prevent children from receiving needed services for mental health problems (Garrison, Roy, & Azar, 1999).”
From Evidence-Based Mental Health Programs in Schools: Barriers and Facilitators of Successful Implementation (2010) · cites this paper as Garrison, Roy, & Azar, 1999
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- Authors
- Garrison, E. G., Roy, I. S., & Azar, V.
- Corresponding author
- Garrison, Ellen Greenberg
- Venue
- Clinical Psychology Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999-03
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 199-219
- ISSN
- 0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2037430731
- Cited by
- 99
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 4.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- Latino children, Latino families, school-based mental health services, unmet mental health needs, Central American migrants, cultural sensitivity, social adaptation, program replication
- MeSH terms
- Acculturation, Adolescent, Child, Culture, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Health Services Needs and Demand, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Mental Health Services, School Health Services, Social Adjustment, Socioeconomic Factors, Student Dropouts, United States
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