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The Development of a Community Counseling Training Clinic for Latino Immigrants Cover

The Development of a Community Counseling Training Clinic for Latino Immigrants

Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice
Volume 2 (2019): Issue 2
By: ,   and    
Open Access
|Jul 2019
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Figures & Tables

Figure 1

CBPR conceptual model explaining context, partnership processes, intervention & research, and outcomes of CBPR partnerships.

Table 1

Demographic data of clients.

VariableN%
Gender 151
Male3322
Female11878
Age 148
1–1796
18–4510974
46 and older3020
Marital Status 148
Married7651
Separated149
Divorced107
Committed Relationship2115
Single2718
Country of Origin
Dominican Republic75
El Salvador1411
Honduras2016
Mexico6853
USA75
Other1310
Figure 2

Consultation model for developing a community counseling training clinic.

Table 2

Recommendations for developing a community counseling training.

ChallengesRecommendations
1. Building trust in the community

  1. Listen to community needs and priorities

  2. Partner with an established and trusted community agency

  3. Share power and decision making

  4. Understand that community members are experts on community needs

  5. Be willing to invest a significant amount of time to build trust, co-develop programs, and conduct quality assurance assessments

2. Language brokering

  1. Recruit bilingual student trainees when possible

  2. Use interpreters for monolingual student trainees

  3. Provide training for students and supervising staff on how to work with interpreters

  4. Establish protocols for interpretation that honor the natural rhythm of counseling and Latino culture

3. Providing culturally responsive services

  1. Collaborate with the Latino community to co-develop services

  2. Provide training on cultural awareness, cultural conflicts, and Latino cultural values to student trainees

  3. Provide clinical supervision with special attention to multicultural competency

4. Providing affordable services to low-income populations

  1. Develop a student-driven program that allows student-trainees to provide services at low or no cost to individuals or the agency

5. Managing attrition

  1. Provide Psychoeducation using a brief model

  2. Provide wrap-around services at the agency allowing clients to receive multiple services with one visit

  3. Engage families in therapy

  4. Provide flexible hours, including evenings & weekends

6. Recruiting student trainees

  1. Collaborate with several different colleges, including Counseling & Education, Health Psychology, and Social Work

  2. Provide training and professional development

7. Providing adequate supervision to students

  1. Hire onsite coordinator who is a licensed professional counselor with experience and training in multicultural services

  2. Provide supervision from faculty at the University

8. Coordination & organization of services: Administration & record keeping

  1. Utilize graduate students through The CommUniversity to assist with continuous quality assurance and chart reviews

  2. Provide feedback to agency staff and supervisors on how to improve recording keeping and organization of project materials, including client paperwork and forms

  3. Collect process and clinical data that can be used for grant funding and quality improvement

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33596/coll.26 | Journal eISSN: 2638-4396
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Language: English
Page range: 20 - 20
Published on: Jul 24, 2019
Published by: University of Miami Libraries
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Latinx,
Mental Health,
Treatment

© 2019 Daniel Gutierrez, Keri Elliot Revens, Mark DeHaven, published by University of Miami Libraries
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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