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

    By Ph.D. César Garcés Carranza M.

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    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 clini

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    PublisherGoldTouch Press, LLC
    Release dateJan 20, 2021
    ISBN9781954673212
    A Biographical Reflection of Being a Latin American Clinical Social Worker in the United States
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    Ph.D. César Garcés Carranza M.

    Born and raised in Lima Peru, came to the United States in 1975 and entered Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, graduated in 1979 with BA degree in Psychology/Social Work. In 1983 entered Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work and graduated in 1985 (MSW). In 1997 entered Yeshiva University- WWSSW and graduated with a PhD in 2002. From 1985 to 1989 Worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker at The Puerto Rican Family Institute Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, Bronx, New York. from 1989 to 2013 worked at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center (ER/ICU), Bronx, New York. In private psychotherapy practice at Queens Neuropsychiatric Institute, Queens, New York from 1989 to present. At Community Counseling Mental Health Clinic, Long Island, New York, from 2010 to present. In 2002 published The Social Worker in the Emergency Room-Doctoral Dissertation (Yeshiva University), in 2018, published La Intervenion del Trabajador Social en el Centro Hospitalario-Retos para la Profesion. Also in 2018 published Intervenciones del Trabajador Social en el Hospital-Trabajo Social Hospitalario. In 2019 published Hospital Social Work Interventions. The 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 Coronavirus. The author was a guest speaker in different International Social Work Conferences in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Colombia. In 2017, received the Award of Excellence in Social Work from the Organizacion Internacional de Trabajo Social (OITS) in Santiago-Chile.

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      A Biographical Reflection of Being a Latin American Clinical Social Worker in the United States - Ph.D. César Garcés Carranza M.

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

      César M. Garcés Carranza, Ph.D.

      Copyright © 2021 by César M. Garcés Carranza, Ph.D..

      Library of Congress Control Number:      2021900716

      HARDBACK:    978-1-954673-20-5

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      Acknowledgment

      To my clients/patients, for they are the ones who have grown me and cured me. They have curiously enough shown me the road less traveled, for without them I would not know the things I know now.

      Thank you!

      César M. Garcés Carranza, Ph.D.

      Contents

      Acknowledgment

      My Story

      Chapter I:     Areas of Clinical Social Work Practice and Required Credentials

      Chapter II:   Needed Mental Health Services

      Chapter III:  Social Work in Mental Health

      Chapter IV:  Conclusion and Recommendations

      Bibliography

      My Story

      September-2020

      Summary:

      In this book, the author describes the actual context of clinical /psychiatric social work in the United States, also the principal areas of the professional practice and the needed education and credentials required to practice this profession. Later, will highlight his identity as a Latin American. The main points of this personal exploration rest in a reflection that pretends to explain the advantages of being a Latin American clinical/psychiatric social worker in the United States, finally, recommendations and suggestions will be made for the Latin American clinical social work movement that has been growing up for the last few years.

      As a way of invitation, the author believes that social workers should contribute in initiatives of research, not only to demonstrate their effectiveness in their therapeutic interventions, but also to promote the recognition and acceptance of other colleagues in the field of health and mental health. Clinical social workers should understand that they play an important role identifying and treating a series of psychosocial problems, which encompass from the post-traumatic stress to the emotional reactions that people suffer when they face problems that are related to their mental health. As a profession that is based on human rights, the specialty of clinical social work has an essential function in all societies, facilitating the communities to raise their voice and defend their rights along with others. The power of clinical social work rest in its own professional foundation, which implies its capacity to create a participatory democracy, to link communities in sustainable futures and protecting human rights.

      Key Words:

      Social work, clinical social work, psychiatric social work, mental health, community mental health clinicals

      I.

      Areas of Clinical Social Work Practice and Required Credentials

      For the past 35 years this author has been practicing as a clinical/psychiatric social worker both in the hospital setting and in community outpatient mental health settings in New York City and on Long Island, with people from different social, ethnic and multicultural backgrounds, especially with the Latin American communities. As a clinical social worker, he can identify the major psychosocial and emotional problems, including crisis interventions, providing counseling, and exploring alternatives to identify and apply alternatives to face emotional problems such as depression and anxiety. Restoring the functioning throughout implementation of a plan of action and providing adequate interventions to people with severe stress conditions is part of his daily practice in mental health settings. The focus of his interventions is the basis of his concentration of what happens in the here and now and not in the past.

      Mental health, as part of the overall health of people, is a component of human growth and therefore of the development of nations. Mental health is not only based on subjective conditions; it is also based on objective conditions. A comprehensive look at this statement assumes an understanding of mental health as an element that is inserted in the society. Mental health is related to the deployment of different human capacities in different moments of life, the things that we do, be them small or big. It involves building and developing active links that are reality transformers, that allows us to take care of our personal needs and psychic wellbeing, as

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