“Have you ever watched a Puerto Rican novela?” Dr. Susana Rivera asked a room full of therapists and social workers. “I don’t know what they say to their therapists, but by the third visit, they always get committed. I tell my families, ‘We don’t do that.’”
Based on the work of Dr. Michael de Arrelleno of the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, Rivera teaches practitioners how to adapt trauma-based cognitive behavioral therapy for families living in Hispanic and Latino communities. Her presentation to a packed room at the South Texas Trauma-Informed Care Conference in San Antonio on May 11 was an introduction to the work she does year-round in Laredo, Texas.
Before delving into the specifics of the approach she uses, Rivera described some lesser-known facts about immigrant families and the stress of their daily lives.
[For more on this story by Christie Renick, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...no-communities/30907]
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