| dc.description | This thesis centers around interviews I conducted with mental health care providers who work with Spanish-speaking populations about how they witness culture influence the way individuals interpret, respond to, and heal from trauma and adversity. In conversations with mental health care providers, it is clear that in providing mental health care services to their Latinx clients, providers experience the limitations of therapy treatments that are not catered toward the cultural context of their clients. The interviewees spoke from a diversity of ethnic, racial, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds, with some identifying as Latinx themselves, but they each practiced their own ways of adapting to the unique challenges of providing culturally competent care to their Latinx clients. Beyond their stories of providing therapy to marginalized communities, it is also easy to hear how tired they are from trying to meet the ever-increasing mental health care needs of those who live in the margins of society. | en_US |
