Spanish-English Bilingual Psychotherapists: Personal and Professional Language Development and Use

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 230-242

  Verdinelli, Susana ^a   Biever, Joan L ^a  

^a OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual counseling; Hispanic; Latino; Spanish language services

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISPANIC; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TRANSLATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650992047     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015111     Document Type: Article

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