What Gets in the Way: Latinas Who Don’t Access or Stay in Treatment

• By: Lauren Henríquez-Bentiné, LMSW JBFCS Harry Blumenfeld Pelham Counseling Center
• July 1st, 2011
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As social workers in urban settings, we often hear about the traumas our female clients endure. These include experiencing or witnessing: sexual assaults, parental abuse/neglect, domestic violence, child fatalities, and life-threatening illnesses/injuries (Gaillot 2010). Women are more likely to...