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by Maciel Campos (Editor), Yessenia Mejia (Editor), Andrés J. Consoli (Editor)
This book is your roadmap to a career as a bilingual mental health provider, with guidance on training programs, conducting research, and building your practice.
Today over 60 million Latine individuals live in the US, more than 70 percent of whom are fluent in languages besides English. Disparities in health care are 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 percent of psychologists are Latinx, with only 5.5 percent identifying as Spanish-speaking, and current standards of training, accreditation and competence for bilingual providers is woefully unstandardized. This book aims to chart a new path forward for bilingual mental health in the United States. Editors Maciel Campos, Yessenia Mejia, and Andrés J. Consoli have gathered a prestigious group of scholar-practitioners who describe the current lay of the land in bilingual mental health care, with a focus on the graduate student and early career professional who is seeking a career as a bilingual mental health provider. Chapters describe the process of identifying and navigating graduate programs with an emphasis on bilingual approaches to training and care, conducting and publishing bilingual research, internship and postdoctoral training, and building a bilingual mental health practice. The unique experiences of Black and Indigenous Latine are given particular emphasis throughout.Author Biography
Maciel Campos, PsyD, is the program director for the New York City Health and Hospitals Kings County Behavioral Health Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Department in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a voluntary clinical assistant professor appointment at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. She earned her doctoral degree at the Adler University in Chicago, IL. She completed a clinical predoctoral internship at the Columbia University Medical Center, where she continued to work as a licensed psychologist and program director. Dr. Campos is a bilingual English-Spanish speaking psychologist who accompanies bilingual English-Spanish speaking Latinx families living in the United States.
Yessenia Mejia, PsyD, is a bilingual-bicultural clinical assistant professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine and program manager at the Family Health Centers of NYU Langone in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Dr. Mejia received her doctorate from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University in New York. She was formerly a staff psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a postdoctoral fellow at CUIMC. Dr. Mejia also serves as a cochair for the National Latinx Psychological Association's Bilingual Issues in Latinx Mental Health Special Interest Group. Andrés Consoli, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a licensed psychologist in California. Dr. Consoli was professor and associate chair of the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University. He was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he received a licenciatura degree in clinical psychology at the Universidad de Belgrano. He earned a masters and doctorate in counseling psychology at UCSB and received postdoctoral training in behavioral medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University's School of Medicine.
