Healthcare Spanish: Books

This book provides culture-centered assessment and intervention strategies for effective clinical practice with Latina/o individuals and families. Mental health professionals will gain new and expanded cultural competence as they learn to sensitively and ethically integrate Latino values into their work. Throughout the text, case scenarios illustrate ways to work successfully with clients of all ages.

Michele Guzmán and Nicolás Carrasco discuss demographics, sociopolitical history (including common history and the history of specific Latino ethnic subgroups), current issues such as mental health risks, cultural systems (including traditional gender roles, religious beliefs and practices, and family dynamics), and counseling dynamics and interventions.

Directly applicable to practice, Group Activities for Latino/a Youth allows helping professionals to select and apply a series of group sessions with topics relevant to today's Latino/a youth.

To equip professionals in ministry for their ministry with and for Latino/as, Montilla centers his presentation on families and rituals at the heart and soul of the Hispanic community as the key to caregiving. In that context he unfolds a variegated picture of the particular cultural guideposts for Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. today.

Counseling Latinos and la familia provides an integrated approach to understanding Latino families and increasing competency for counselors and other mental health professional who work with Latinos and their families.

For the Latino population, the family bond is powerful and enduring. Family serves as the primary source of support, care, guidance, and healing; all difficulties that arise for an individual are surmounted together. Therefore, a practitioner working with a Latino client must gain the trust and respect of the family in order to carry out treatment efficiently.

Latino folklore comprises a kaleidoscope of cultural traditions. This compelling three-volume work showcases its richness, complexity, and beauty.

Provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system.

The Latino Patient provides an in-depth exploration of Latino diversity, relevant cultural values, health status, beliefs, and practices; and effective communication strategies for healthcare professionals.

Hoping to Help is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of global health volunteering, based on research into how it currently operates, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it might be organized to contribute most effectively.

Memoir of an American doctor's service at a a rural clinic in Mexico.

Promotes an awareness of the dimensions and complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds

This book is a first in bringing together a rich, multidisciplinary, multicultural collection of case studies focusing on sexual and reproductive health education problems and programs from across the Americas. No other such collection links the experience of U.S. Latino populations with public health, culture, and community in Latin American countries.

Book only; audiocasettes not included.

This practical resource will allow interpreters and translators to quickly read up on healthcare settings, familiarizing themselves with anatomy, physiology, medical terminology and frequently encountered conditions, diagnostic tests and treatment options.

A comprehensive guide to improving communication with Spanish-speaking patients and their families and English-speaking medical personnel.

This manual presents situations and vocabulary that medical personnel encounter in the course of their daily work.

Designed to facilitate communication between Spanish-speaking patients with little or no knowledge of English and English-speaking medical personnel with little or no knowledge of Spanish.

La décima edición de este texto clásico proporciona una base excelente para la realización de exploraciones físicas y de anamnesis a los pacientes. El diseño y las ilustraciones a todo color (con má s de 50 figuras y fotografías nuevas) enriquecen la claridad de un formato que permite diferenciar claramente entre la descripción paso a paso de las técnicas de examen (siempre a la izquierda de la página) y las alteraciones y correspondientes diagnósticos (siempre a la derecha de la página).

Encauzar el entrenamiento muscular profesional. Con esta exigencia, el presente libro no solo se dirige a los profesionales, sino tambien a todas aquellas personas dispuestas a invertir tiempo y energia para mejorar consecuentemente su figura, postura, salud y capacidad de rendimiento. Con el libro practico de entrenamiento de la musculatura entrena con los fundamentos mas actuales del conocimiento cientifico. La teoria y la practica se engranan la una con la otra.

La 5. ª edición de Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Farmacología ofrece al lector la posibilidad de un acceso rápido a los contenidos y de asimilar grandes cantidades de información compleja sobre los principios de la farmacología médica.

More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through hundreds of years of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases of development.