TY - JOUR
T1 - La Clinica In LaK’ech: Establishing a Practicum Site Integrating Practice, Advocacy, and Research With Latinx Clients
AU - Delgado-Romero, Edward A.
AU - Mahoney, Grace-Ellen
AU - Muro-Rodriguez, Nancy J.
AU - Atilano, Ruben
AU - Bautista, Elizabeth Cárdenas
AU - De Los Santos, Jhokania
AU - Durán, Maritza Y.
AU - Espinoza, Leslie
AU - Fuentes, Jacqueline
AU - Gomez, Sandra N.
AU - Estevez, Rebekah
AU - Jimenez-Ruiz, Jocelyn
AU - Monroig Garcia, Marlaine M.
AU - Mora-Ozuna, Charmaine J.
AU - Carina Ordaz, Ana
AU - Rappaport, Brooke
AU - Suazo-Padilla, Keishla
AU - Vazquez, Marjory
PY - 2021/8/30
Y1 - 2021/8/30
N2 - This article concerns the establishment and development of La Clinica In LaK’ech, a bilingual mental health clinic collectively founded and staffed by a counseling psychologist and doctoral students in a counseling psychology doctoral program in the Southeast United States. During over 5 years of existence, the clinic has blended bilingual counseling psychology services, advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and research with the Latinx population. The authors describe the development of the clinic and resultant clinical, training, and ethical issues that confronted the clinic in terms of providing services to a marginalized community in a state where anti-immigrant rhetoric, detention, and deportations were escalating. Also discussed are implications for training in practice, advocacy, service, and research for counseling psychologists working with Latinx communities.
AB - This article concerns the establishment and development of La Clinica In LaK’ech, a bilingual mental health clinic collectively founded and staffed by a counseling psychologist and doctoral students in a counseling psychology doctoral program in the Southeast United States. During over 5 years of existence, the clinic has blended bilingual counseling psychology services, advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and research with the Latinx population. The authors describe the development of the clinic and resultant clinical, training, and ethical issues that confronted the clinic in terms of providing services to a marginalized community in a state where anti-immigrant rhetoric, detention, and deportations were escalating. Also discussed are implications for training in practice, advocacy, service, and research for counseling psychologists working with Latinx communities.
KW - Bilingual couseling
KW - Community-based
KW - Education
KW - Social Justice
KW - Training
UR - https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00110000211025270
U2 - 10.1177/00110000211025270
DO - 10.1177/00110000211025270
M3 - Article
SN - 0011-0000
VL - 49
JO - The Counseling Psychologist
JF - The Counseling Psychologist
ER -
