Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients: Enhancing Behavioral Health Services

•          Assessing for race-based trauma.
  
•          Using behavioral activation and cognitive interventions to treat depression among Latinos.
  
•          Treating aggression, substance use, abuse, and dependence among Latino Adults.
  
•          Treating behavioral problems among Latino adolescents. 
  
•          Treating anxiety among Latino children.
  
•          Working with Latino couples.
  
•          Restoring legal competency with Latinos. 
  

The Toolkit for Counseling Spanish-Speaking Clients fills a glaring need in behavioral service delivery, offering health psychologists, social workers, clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and other helping professionals culturally-relevant support for working with this under served population. The materials included here are an important step toward dismantling barriers to mental health care.

Lorraine Benuto is a licensed clinical psychologist and a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she provides treatment to victims of sexual assault, sexual abuse, and child physical abuse. She is project coordinator and therapist of the Victims of Crime Treatment Center at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Benuto received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Previously, she completed her APA-accredited internship at the VA in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she delivered psychological services to a culturally diverse clientele presenting with depression and anxiety. Dr. Benuto has extensive experience delivering evidence-based treatments and conducting psychological assessments with the Latino population. She has delivered professional presentations at state, national, and international conferences on topics related to cultural competence and co-edited Handbook of Adolescent Health Psychology for Springer.