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Possibilities and Challenges in Providing Psychotherapeutic Interventions to Meet the Needs of the Latinx Population in the United States

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Lombana, Yaneth·2021·Genealogy
DOI 10.3390/genealogy5010012
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The mental health system in the United States faces challenges in adequately engaging the Latinx population with modalities that conform to the Latinx worldview, which demands incorporating holistic, family-centric, and trauma-informed models of treatment. Service provision and innovation is hampered by lack of research focusing on this population, the low numbers of Latinx clinicians available, and the lack of treatment adaptations to meet their needs. Psychotherapeutic interventions employed in the Latin American context are potentially useful when working with acculturating Latinx. In this article attention is given to barriers and facilitators for incorporating Family constellation therapy—a holistic trauma-informed treatment modality that offers conflict resolution through connection with ancestry.

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  • Some evidence indicates that group therapy is culturally congruent with collectivist worldviews common among Latinx adults.

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    Section 6 describes families as central to the Latinx worldview and identifies therapies delivered to groups alongside therapies incorporating collectivist viewpoints. It does not establish that group therapy generally is culturally congruent with Latinx adults’ collectivist worldviews; the examples are more specific modalities, such as family and marriage therapy. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Lombana, Y.
Affiliations
The Graduate Center, CUNY (US)
Corresponding author
Lombana, Yaneth
ORCID
Lombana, Yaneth
Venue
Genealogy
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-01-28
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
12
ISSN
2313-5778 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/genealogy5010012
OpenAlex
W3124291083
Cited by
6
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2022: 1
FWCI
0.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Genealogy (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
Keywords
psychotherapeutic interventions, family constellation therapy, trauma-informed care, acculturation, holistic medicine, ancestry, barriers to treatment access

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