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Latina/o Healing Practices
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ABSTRACT
This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous healers, as well as the application of traditional healing practices in contemporary counseling and therapeutic modalities with Latina/o people. The book offers a broad coverage of important topics, such as traditional healer’s views of mental/psychological health and well-being, the use of traditional healing techniques in contemporary psychotherapy, and herbal remedies in psychiatric practice. It also discusses common factors across traditional healing methods and contemporary psychotherapies, the importance of spirituality in counseling and everyday life, the application of indigenous healing practices with Latina/o undergraduates, indigenous techniques in working with perpetrators of domestic violence, and religious healing systems and biomedical models. The book is an important reference for anyone working within the general field of mental health practice and those seeking to understand culturally relevant practice with Latina/o populations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part One: Mestiza/o and Indigenous Perspectives
chapter 1|26 pages
What Is Indigenous About Being Indigenous? The Mestiza/o Experience
chapter 2|34 pages
Latina/o Folk Saints and Marian Devotions: Popular Religiosity and Healing
chapter 3|18 pages
Santería and the Healing Process in Cuba and the United States
part |2 pages
Part Two: Indigenous and Mestiza/o Healing Practices
chapter 4|56 pages
The Use of Psychotropic Herbal and Natural Medicines in Latina/o and Mestiza/o Populations
chapter 6|20 pages
La Limpia de San Lazaro as Individual and Collective Cleansing Rite
chapter 7|26 pages
Resé un Ave María y Encendí una Velita: The Use of Spirituality and Religion as a Means of Coping with Educational Experiences for
part |2 pages
Part Three: Contemporary Aspects of Mestiza/o and Indigenous Healing Practices: Reclamation and Integration