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. 2024 Mar;42(1):137-138.
doi: 10.1037/fsh0000821.

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Victoria A Torres  1 , Luz M Garcini  2 , Eliot J Lopez  3
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Victoria A Torres et al. Fam Syst Health. 2024 Mar.

Abstract

The author describes how she has earnestly struggled to find her fit in providing mental health services to Hispanic/Latino clients and the Latino communities that she belongs to. She wonders, if no one belongs, then who stands up for historically marginalized Latino communities? Personal and systemic biases and arbitrary criteria for being enough to serve Latino patients hurt providers and clients alike. Her work reminds her of the need to charge against stereotyping and racism to meet patients' needs regardless of skin color or linguistic abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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