A Mexico City-Based Immersion Education Program: Training Mental Health Clinicians For Practice With Latino Communities

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 352-364

  Platt, Jason James ^a  

^a Alliant International University Mexico City Campus   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; LANGUAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; CULTURE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; LANGUAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; MEXICO; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84859976385     PISSN: 0194472X     EISSN: 17520606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2010.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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