Stigma Surrounding Trauma Treatment in the Hispanic Community and Recommendations for Engagement in TF-CBT Treatment
In this webinar Dante Jimenez discusses the stigma around Hispanics seeking mental health treatment. During the presentation he provides background information on Hispanics in the United States. He suggests that while the nature of a traumatic event itself has powerful effects on treatment outcomes, other social (systemic) factors, such as stigma surrounding treatment, play equally important roles. In addition to stigma, some other systemic factors that affect Latin American children are immigration history and status, nationality, level of acculturation, and the need for culturally sensitive methods of engagement in treatment and service delivery. He discusses how these factors have been addressed in a border town clinic which utilizes TF-CBT.