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Apr 27 2006 | Comments 0

Southern Oregon University is offering a new seminar for health and human service professionals —which includes a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico—to address the question of Hispanic mental health care concerns. Officials in Oregon have seen Latino clients misdiagnosed with mental illness simply because their behavior was unfamiliar to Anglos.

Mental health specialist Alejandra Moreno told the Mali Tribune: “The same disorder might look different in a Hispanic person than in an Anglo because of our different mourning traditions or practices of disciplining our children.”

The seminar should close that gap somewhat. Can I go too?

Mental health care: lost in translation?

liz | 1:00 PM | Uncategorized

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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.