Working with the Hispanic Population
 

A three-hour offering from our Multicultural and Special Populations Series.  This course will provide insight and an overview to the needs and issues when working with the Hispanic Population. Cost: $40.  

Goals/Objectives

By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will:

  1. identify the various learning styles that impact the ability to provide help to this and any cultural population.
  2. examine the cultural factors that will affect the delivery of health related services to the Hispanic client;
  3. look at the delivery of nicotine prevention services as a model for the delivery of care to this population;
  4. identify treatment strategies


Your Course Instructor:
Blanca Sanchez-Navarro, MS


Blanca Sanchez-Navarro received her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Loyola University of the South in New Orleans, LA, and her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology in 1989 from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX. Blanca has been employed at the Southwest Texas State University Counseling Center for eleven years. Her primary role is as a therapist but she is also an experienced presenter, providing programs and workshops to students and staff on topics from diversity to stress management and depression to violence in relationships. Blanca has also presented at state, regional and national conferences and has been involved in the training of peer educators on the SWT campus for many years. Blanca not only has a special interest in chemical dependency issues, but those of diversity and violence in our society.