Cesar Garces Carranza

A Biographical Reflection of Being a Latin American Clinical Social Worker in the United States Cesar Garces Carranza

The book is about being a Latin American Social Worker in the United States. In this book the author tries to explain his experiences in the hospital setting (ER/ICU, as well as in Outpatient Community Mental Health Clinics. With his own personal experiences, he tries to explain the advantages of being a bilingual/bicultural Latin American clinical social worker. The author is able to understand and identify with the Latino population, as well as with the struggles that most of them encounter when they are interviewed by someone who does not understand their language, their ethnic background and their culture when it is done by a health care/mental health professional.