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Behavioral Health Service Delivery with Immigrants

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Immigrant individuals are at a high risk for experiencing stressful events throughout the migration process; however, there are limited resources available to provide mental health services to this community. Our goals for this chapter are threefold: (1) to identify the barriers to the delivery of mental health services for immigrants, (2) to discuss the current sociopolitical context of immigrant populations in the USA, and (3) to review the considerations and the guidelines that have been developed to address the needs of the immigrant population in clinical settings. We hope that this information can be used in the day-to-day of mental health providers to deliver culturally responsive services to immigrant communities.

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    According to the Department of Homeland Security (2019), (1) a refugee is a person that is not living in their country of origin and cannot return due to fear of persecution, and (2) asylee refers to a person that meets the criteria for refugee and is either at a port of entry to the USA or already in the country.

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Hurtado, G., Heffron, L.C., Serrata, J.V. (2020). Behavioral Health Service Delivery with Immigrants. In: Benuto, L.T., Gonzalez, F.R., Singer, J. (eds) Handbook of Cultural Factors in Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32229-8_15

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