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Forging Caminos Pathways to Becoming a Bilingual Mental Health Professional

This book is yourroadmapto a career as a bilingual mental health provider, with guidance on training programs, conducting research, and building yourpractice. Today over 60 million Latineindividuals live in the US,more than 70 percent of whomare fluent in languages besides English. Disparities in health careare significant among this population, and there is a great need for qualified mental health providers to assess, diagnose, and treat both significant and everyday mental health concerns. Yet, less than 8 percentof psychologists are Latinx, with only 5.5 percentidentifying as Spanish-speaking, and current standards of training, accreditation and competence for bilingual providers is woefully un-standardized. This book aims to chart a new path forward for bilingual mental health in

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