Description
Book SynopsisOur passion and pride to serve our community instilled a desire to provide adequate preparation of biculturalbilingual counselors. Five Spanish-speaking Latina scholars, with professional experience as bilingual counselors, recognized the multitude of challenges encountered when providing services in Spanish without any formal training. As you read this text, know that this book was created by bilingual counselors, and for bilingual counselors, to raise our collective voice. Throughout our first conversations we realized a significant problem in the field: the overall assumption that in order for bilingual counselors to be culturally and linguistically efficacious, they simply have to speak the language or identify as part of the Latine community. Our ground-breaking book attends to the need of providing adequate knowledge and resources to prepare culturally efficacious bilingual counselors. Given that our focus is to ensure access to materials in Spanish that address Latine mental
Table of Contents
Preface – Foreword – About the Authors – Acknowledgments – Preparing Culturally Efficacious Bilingual Counselors Through Theory and Case Studies – Developing Linguistic-Communicative Competence in Bilingual Counseling Settings – Cultural Choques and Acculturation: Sociocultural Considerations for Serving the Counseling Needs of the Latine Populations – Bilingual Supervision for Developing and Guiding Culturally Efficacious Counselors – Bilingual Casos: Becoming Culturally Efficacious – Reflexión Final – Index.
