There are number of potential key factors linked to the underutilization of mental health services. The lack of access to mental health services continues and it is the most serious problem within the Latino community. Numerous Latino families leave their country of origin, to find better opportunities in the United States since the opportunities for employment in their own country are scarce and the violence has made it unsafe to raise their families. As Latino immigrant families transition and adapt to the United States, or as second generation individuals try to embrace both cultures, they experience a range of adverse experiences. Some of the adverse experiences include substandard housing, abuse, trauma, stigma, discrimination, and poverty…
Immigrants come to the United States of America for economic opportunities, safer living conditions, etc. When immigrants travel to America, they experience a culture shock and several of them take years before they can feel integrated into society, and sometimes numerous of immigrants never completely adapt. In Everyday Illegal by Joanna Derby some immigrants are illegal and deal with other situations besides being an outsider in a foreign land. There are some negative consequences of parents and/ or children’s undocumented status in families. “At any moment he arrives, he grabs the yellow pages and he says, ‘I am going to call immigration right now, the police.’…
The first critical factor that has, for many years, prevented Latino families from seeking mental health services is the lack of health insurance. There are a lot of different economic circumstances that leads to a lack of medical insurance. The latest statistics from the U.S. Census show Latinos are the largest uninsured group in the country, with over 30 percent of the population without health coverage.(http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2013/01/24/race-still-factor-in-mental-health-treatment-in-california/). For Latinos not having health insurance they won't seek for any help. They prefer to do other kind of remedies before going to seek for professional help and paying out of pocket.…
An Immigrant Women’s Experience in a County Hospital Shikha Ahuja Drexel University S.D. is a 38 year old immigrant female who was admitted to a community memorial hospital when she was nine months pregnant. S.D. went to the hospital clinic for a prenatal checkup on October 7, 2014. The nurse took her vital signs and all her vitals were normal except for the blood pressure. She had an abnormally high blood pressure reading. The physician admitted her as a precautionary measure.…
As applied social workers, it is important to understand how migration, immigration, and documentation or lack there of affects the Hispanic community’s coping abilities and access to health care when being confronted with a terminal illness. This community is a diverse population with a large array of health care needs, and for some families their immigrations status, length of time in the U.S, and movement within the country will influence their knowledge concerning services, and can consequently, have a negative affects on them receiving proper medical services. A person’s immigration status and ethnicity can directly impact access to health care, housing, employment, and overall health and mental health services in the US (Carrión, 2007).…
Tasha Robertson Professor R. Salter December 8, 2016 Healthcare Strategies Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants For many people around the world, immigration to the United States is just a dream and those who make it still have many obstacles that they have to face. Those who have already illegally immigrated to the United States have found the dream. Many illegal immigrants dislike the label but unfortunately that is what they are. When an immigrant enters the country without permission from the American government that immigrant is illegal.…
These experiences can lead to depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms (Caplan, 2007; Dettlaff, Earner, & Phillips, 2009; Dettlaff & Earner, 2012). Once in the United States, immigrants face the everyday stress of adjusting to a new language, culture, and customs, with the constant fear and anxiety of being deported at the forefront of their interactions (Arbona, Olvera, Rodriguez, Hagan, Linares, & Wiesner, 2010). Arbona et al. (2010) interviewed 420 immigrants using a semi-structured interview; it was found that at least 80% (n= 336) of those interviewed would avoid seeking employment help, health services, and governmental assistance for fear of deportation. This avoidance of help adds to the intra-familial stress of families as they experience limited work opportunities and living conditions.…
Immigration play a big roll in America's history. The united state has grown so much since the 1700s because of million of new immigrants who move to united states every year. There has been some differences where a different set of race is treated different because of the American's belief. For example, mu-slum where hated because of terrorism that has been going on. Just like what was going on with all the Isis issues in Europe.…
In America, there are women here who built a life here in the United States. Many of these women who built a life here in the United States, are not all Americans, they are immigrants. Immigrants are people who come to live permanently in a foreign country. Majority of the time, immigrants are discriminated numerous times, mainly by Americans. For this reason, immigrant women face difficult hardships living in the U.S. Discriminating immigrants in the U.S. is wrong because for that reason, immigrant women face hardships when looking for a job or simply fitting into society.…
Mackenzie Carlson Period 3 10/20/15 Immigration Intro: Explain the problem: Thesis: Although some may believe that immigrants are dividing our country and weakening us as a whole, they are in fact strengthening our nation politically, socially, and economically. Body Paragraph 1 - Political Politically, the US immigration policy is more than beneficial to our country because it creates a net positive for federal government budgets because they contribute to the system more than they take out. Evidence sentence frame: According to the Economic Policy Institute, (http://www.epi.org/publication/immigration-facts/) immigration reduces overall budget deficits.…
The health disparities epidemic between immigrants and nonimmigrants in the United States is identified as an immense health concern and requires immediate attention. An immigrant is any person who goes to another country to live permanently. According to the American Community Survey (ACS), in 2014 immigrants made up more than 42.4 million, or 13.3%, of the total U.S. population. The disparity in health between U.S born citizens and immigrants is a challenging problem among professionals in the United States. The health of individuals is important so they can live with an optimal level of functioning.…
Mental Health in South America When someone gets a broken bone or develops diabetes or cancer, it is obviously taken seriously by medical professionals, friends and family and treatment is encouraged and given. So why are mental disorders often denied the same level of concern? Mental illness is serious, and thousands of people commit suicide every year because of undiagnosed or improperly treated mental health disorders. In fact, an estimated 63,000 people commit suicide every year in the Americas alone (Cruz). There needs to be a serious change in the way the government treats those with these health problems and drastic action should be taken because death by suicide is completely preventable, yet it takes so many lives every year.…
The Latino community has been generalized to seem as though access to proper mental healthcare has been a fault on their part, yet others argue that their approach to mental health may not be the only reason or a valid reason at all. Research has demonstrated that other factors have heavily contributed to the plight of a Latino’s mental well-being, instead. These factors vary across a spectrum for each Latino, such as whether or not they uphold cultural ideals; their background; their status; and their access to insurance or services. Attitudes from Latinos about mental health has been anticipated, for the stigma has come to exist claims that mental health is not considered as imperative as that of physical health. The stigma rose due to the…
Those points and more are explored through the sources used to write this essay. The purpose of this essay is to explore all the difficulties and challenges that immigrants face and to see if there are ways to help them be overcome. Suarez-Orozco, C., Suarez-Orozco, M. M., & Todorova, I. (2008) ‘Learning a new land: Immigrant students in American society’, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. ‘Learning a new land: Immigrant students in American society,’ is a book which gives detailed stories of young immigrants about their challenges and wants. This is an academic source published through Harvard University Press in 2008.…
cultures divergence, different languages, and different laws are the main problem for being an immigrant or emigrate in any other country. It is not a simple thing, but as soon you become a migrate you have the deal or accept real life obstacle you might encounter. Before I came to the United States I heard people talk about U.S a lot. People were saying the USA is a paradise. when I heard about united states is a paradise in my head I said I need to come to this country to see the paradise and leave in it.…