Кармен Ина Васкес

Кармен Иноа Васкес (родился 16 июля 1942 года) - латиноамериканский психолог, профессор и автор. Она наиболее известна своей работой по изучению и содействию латиноамериканскому психическому здоровью .

Ранняя жизнь и образование

Иноа Васкес Кармен После эмигрирования в Соединенные Штаты в 1958 году в возрасте 16 лет она училась в Колледже Квинс в Городском университете Нью -Йорка , где она закончила с отличием со своим бакалавром искусств в 1976 году. Васкес продолжила свое образование в городском университете Нью -Йорка , где она получила докторскую степень в области клинической психологии в 1981 году. В настоящее время она проживает в Нью -Йорке.

Карьера

Vazquez's research and clinical expertise are in the area of multiculturalism, bilingualism, and Latin American mental health. She is a clinical and forensic psychologist. She is the founder of the Bilingual Treatment Program Clinic at Bellevue Hospital and the Institute for Multicultural Behavioral Health. Vazquez is a professor of clinical psychiatry at City University of New York and New York University School of Medicine. Vazquez has also held academic positions at New School and State University of New York as a professor of psychology.

Publications

In addition to numerous empirical and theoretical articles published in academic journals, Vazquez has published three books, including Parenting with Pride Latino Style, The Maria Paradox, and Grief Therapy with Latinos: Integrating Culture for Clinicians. She has contributed to and served as an editor for other books, including Latina Psychologists: Thriving in the Cultural Borderlands.

Published in 1997, The Maria Paradox: How Latinas Can Merge Old World Traditions with New World Self Esteem uses clinical case examples to outline the various difficulties faced by Latinas as they work to navigate conflict between marianismo ideals and the cultural expectations of the United States. Through the lens of social psychology and feminist psychology, the book offers guidance about how these women might achieve empowerment by integrating two seemingly disparate ways of life. The book has been criticized for its lack of nuance regarding generational differences and attention to the role of social class. The Maria Paradox (La Paradoja de Maria: Como La hispana puede fortalecer su autoesti ma sin abandonar sus tradiciones) was published in Spanish in 2002.

Grief Therapy with Latinos: Integrating Culture for Clinicians was published in 2011 and provides practical guidance to therapists who wish to provide culturally sensitive care to Latin Americans experiencing grief. The book pays particular attention to the ways that collectivism influences the expression of various emotions associated with loss and explores how clinicians can integrate knowledge regarding their clients' language, immigration, acculturation, and traditional cultural beliefs into therapy.

Vazquez published Parenting with Pride Latino Style in 2009. In the book, Vazquez outlines an approach to parenting that integrates traditional Hispanic values into an American cultural context, which she terms New Traditionalism (El Nuevo Tradicionalismo).