The author describes the actual context of clinical social work with Latinos in New York, describing the principal areas of the professional practice and the needed education required to practice this specialty. The main points of this personal exploration rest in a reflection that pretends to explain the advantages of being bilingual and multicultural. Finally, recommendation and suggestions will be made for the Latin American Social Work movement that has been growing up for the last several years.
The author describes the actual context of clinical social work with Latinos in New York, describing the principal areas of the professional practice and the needed education required to practice this specialty. The main points of this personal exploration rest in a reflection that pretends to explain the advantages of being bilingual and multicultural. Finally, recommendation and suggestions will be made for the Latin American Social Work movement that has been growing up for the last several years.
Born and raised in Lima, Perú, came to the United States in 1975 and entered Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. Graduated in 1979 with a BA degree in Psychology/Social Work. In 1983 entered Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work, and graduated in 1985, with a master's degree in Social Work. In 1997 entered Yeshiva University (WWSSW) and graduated in 2002 with a PhD in Social Work. The same year joined the Puerto Rican Family Institute-Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic in the South Bronx, New York. From 1989 to 2013 worked at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, in Bronx, New York (Bronx Care), ER/ICU/Medical Surgical Snits/ Neonatal,/Infections Diseases Unit. In 2007 was awarded with "the Best Social Worker" from the department of Medicine at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. In private psychiatric social work practice at Queens Neuropsychiatric Institute, Queens, New York since 1989. In psychiatric social work practice at Community counseling Services in Center Moriches, New York since 2013. In 2002 published The Social Worker in the Emergency Room-doctoral dissertation (Yeshiva University (WWSSW). In 2018, published: La intervención del trabajador Social en el centro Hospitalario-retos para la Profesión. Also in 2018 published Intervenciones del trabajador Social en el Hospital-Trabajo Social Hospitalario. In 2019 published Hospital Social Work Interventions. In 2021, published A biographical Reflection of Being a Latin American Clinical Social Worker in the United States. In 2021, published The New Anxiety: Emotional Problems during the Pandemic of Covid-19The author has also published several articles in English and Spanish about Social Work in Spain, Puerto Rico, and Latin America, as well as articles about Covid-19. The author was a guest speaker in different International Social Work Conferences in Perú, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Colombia. In 2017 received the Award of Excellence from Organizacion Internacional de Trabajadores Sociales (OITS) in Santiago-Chile. 2021 was included in the Marquis WHO'S WHO.
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