A Biographical Reflection of Being a Latin American Clinical Social Worker in the United States - Couverture souple

Garcés Carranza PH D, César

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1954673191 ISBN 13 : 9781954673199

Editeur : Goldtouch Press, LLC, 2021

Synopsis

The book is about being a Latin American Social Worker in the United States. In this book the author tries to explain his experiences in the hospital setting (ER/ICU, as well as in Outpatient Community Mental Health Clinics. With his own personal experiences, he tries to explain the advantages of being a bilingual/bicultural Latin American clinical social worker. The author is able to understand and identify with the Latino population, as well as with the struggles that most of them encounter when they are interviewed by someone who does not understand their language, their ethnic background and their culture when it is done by a health care/mental health professional.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born and raised in Lima Peru, came to the United States in 1975 and entered Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, graduated in 1979 with BA degree in Psychology/Social Work. In 1983 entered Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work and graduated in 1985 (MSW). In 1997 entered Yeshiva University- WWSSW and graduated with a PhD in 2002. From 1985 to 1989 Worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker at The Puerto Rican Family Institute Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, Bronx, New York. from 1989 to 2013 worked at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center (ER/ICU), Bronx, New York. In private psychotherapy practice at Queens Neuropsychiatric Institute, Queens, New York from 1989 to present. At Community Counseling Mental Health Clinic, Long Island, New York, from 2010 to present. In 2002 published The Social Worker in the Emergency Room-Doctoral Dissertation (Yeshiva University), in 2018, published La Intervenion del Trabajador Social en el Centro Hospitalario-Retos para la Profesion. Also in 2018 published Intervenciones del Trabajador Social en el Hospital-Trabajo Social Hospitalario. In 2019 published Hospital Social Work Interventions. The author has also published several articles in English and Spanish about Social Work in Spain, Puerto Rico, and Latin America, as well as articles about Covid-19 Coronavirus. The author was a guest speaker in different International Social Work Conferences in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Colombia. In 2017, received the Award of Excellence in Social Work from the Organizacion Internacional de Trabajo Social (OITS) in Santiago-Chile.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Goldtouch Press, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1954673191
• ISBN 13: 9781954673199
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne