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The Impact Of Social Stigma On The Therapeutic Relationship For Latino Clinicians: The Elephant In The Room?, Mauricio Jose Cifuentes
The Impact Of Social Stigma On The Therapeutic Relationship For Latino Clinicians: The Elephant In The Room?, Mauricio Jose Cifuentes
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Social stigma is consistently mentioned in the literature as one of the barriers
preventing Latinos from seeking, accessing and remaining in mental health care. This
study focuses specifically on social stigma as a barrier to remain in psychotherapy.
Social stigma is understood as the internalized fear of severe social disapproval for
behaving against acceptable cultural meaning systems. With intersubjective theory as
the analytical framework, this study primarily explores, through a series of focus groups
with Latino mental health service providers of Latino clients, the perceptions those
practitioners have regarding the influence of social stigma on the therapeutic
relationship and the …