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Hosp Community Psychiatry
; 26(8): 515-7, 1975 Aug.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1165087
ABSTRACT
A mental health center offering outpatient services to Mexican-Americans should be centrally located in the Mexican-American community, should have a bicultural and bilingual staff, and should have an informal atmosphere with a minimum number of bureaucratic procedures. The center's services must be publicized in a way that minimizes the stigmatization of mental illness, promotes preventive care, and indicates that staff understand Mexican-Americans' problems. La Frontera, a mental health outpatient clinic serving the Tucson area, operates under those guidelines. Clinic records in March 1973 showed that Mexican-Americans accounted for 61 per cent of the active cases.