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¡Yo No Estoy Loco/A! Improving Treatment Engagement For Latinos Using An E-E Video, Lorraine T. Benuto, Frances Gonzalez, Rory Newlands, Jena Casas Nov 2019

¡Yo No Estoy Loco/A! Improving Treatment Engagement For Latinos Using An E-E Video, Lorraine T. Benuto, Frances Gonzalez, Rory Newlands, Jena Casas

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Purpose/Background: Approximately 30% of Latinos experience some form of psychiatric illness in their lifetime. Despite the high prevalence rate of mood disorders among Latinos and the availability of empirically supported treatments that target anxiety and depression, Latinos underutilize behavioral health services. Perceived stigma associated with the pursuit of behavioral health services disproportionately restricts mental health care in Latinos. The research team created an Entertainment- Education (E-E) telenovela-style video (in Spanish), which acted as the experimental intervention in the proposed project. The experimental intervention is based on the E-E model which incorporates health and educational messages in an entertaining, story-telling narrative …


Animal Assisted Therapy And Support Animals, What Mental Health Professionals Know And Understand, Alexandro H. Velez Aug 2019

Animal Assisted Therapy And Support Animals, What Mental Health Professionals Know And Understand, Alexandro H. Velez

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Animal-assisted therapy can greatly benefit mental health professionals with clients in and out of the school settings in many ways. It is believed mental health professionals are successfully implementing Animal Assisted Therapy, even though some are not. Mental health professionals who are not using Animal Assisted Therapy are not doing so as the result of various variables, such as lack of information, knowledge, training, certification and policies, which prevents them from using Animals Assisted Therapy with clients and the community. It is also believed some mental health professionals are using animals as part of therapeutic interventions without proper training. The …


Mental Health Profiles Of Adolescents With Co-Occurring Gambling Behaviours And Benzodiazepine Misuse, Emilie Fletcher, Jeremie Richard, Jeffrey Derevensky Dr, William Ivoska Dr, Caroline Temcheff Dr May 2019

Mental Health Profiles Of Adolescents With Co-Occurring Gambling Behaviours And Benzodiazepine Misuse, Emilie Fletcher, Jeremie Richard, Jeffrey Derevensky Dr, William Ivoska Dr, Caroline Temcheff Dr

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

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