Case Study 2: Alejandro Flores
Seema Dhindaw
Rutgers University
Case Study 2: Alejandro Flores
Primary Issues Presented in Case Study 2
The case titled Alejandro Flores involves a 4-year-old Puerto-Rican boy named Alejandro who has chronic asthma with periods of significant distress. This case highlights the importance of health care providers (hcps) being informed about the cultural values and how they can influence the family’s healthcare experience. This case explores the reasons for and the impact of a family’s decision to pursue Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for their son’s chronic asthma. Alejandro is a child in a low-income, non-English speaking Latino family. Due to the family’s Latino heritage and cultural background, there are many factors that contribute to their medical decision-making for Alejandro. Gender roles and values and an interest in treatments outside of conventional western medicine
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Carlos Deluna was born on March 15th 1962. Carlos DeLuna, who was arrested for murder, was developmentally disabled and had a low IQ. He dropped out of junior high and took a series of manual jobs. He had a history of petty nonviolent crime, including robbery and car theft. DeLuna also developed a taste for huffing spray paint. He was arrested multiple times holding a can of spray paint with his hands and mouth “smeared with the stuff.” DeLuna was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by the state of Texas. On the night of February 4th,1983 a 24 year old gas station attendant named Wanda Lopez was murdered.Reporters said the young woman had been stabbed multiple time with a buckle knife. At his 1983 trial, Carlos DeLuna told the jury that on the day of the murder he had ran into Hernandez, who he'd known for the previous five years. The two men, who both lived in the southern Texas town of Corpus Christi, stopped off at a bar. Hernandez went over to a gas station, the Shamrock, to buy something, and when he didn't return DeLuna went over to see what was going on.Mrs.Lopez was killed while on the phone with the police, having just called 911 reporting a suspicious person. Police found DeLuna hiding in a truck a few blocks away. DeLuna told the jury that he saw Hernandez inside the Shamrock wrestling with a woman behind the counter. DeLuna said he was afraid and started to run. He had his own police record for sexual assault. "I just kept running because I was scared, you know." When he heard the sirens of police cars screeching towards the gas station he panicked and hid under a pickup truck where, 40 minutes after the killing, he was arrested.(Pilkington) DeLuna always maintained that he didn't do it, but waited until his tr...
Counselors today face the task of how to appropriately counsel multicultural clients. Being sensitive to cultural variables can be conceptualized as holding a cultural lens to human behavior and making allowances for the possibility of cultural influence. However, to avoid stereotyping, it is important that the clinician recognize the existence of within-group differences as well as the influence of the client’s own personal culture and values (Furman, Negi, Iwamoto, Shukraft, & Gragg, 2009). One’s background is not always black or white and a counselor needs to be able to discern and adjust one’s treatment plan according to their client.
The healthcare establishment has identified that often “the practitioner will encounter families whose beliefs and assumptions about the etiology and appropriate treatment for illness is markedly different from their own” (Cora-Bramble, Tielman, & Wright, 2004, p. 102). This will often cause difficulties in treatment and may in fact, cause actual harm when medical treatment and traditional remedies collide, and treatment may, in fact, be necessitated by the administration of traditional cures rather than the illness itself. For example, Cora-Bramble, Tielman, and Wright (2004) cite a traditional remedy in Hispanic culture for a stomach ailment include azarcon and greta, which are lead oxides, resulting in lead poisoning if
Jose L. Nieves born in San Leandro, California and raised in Rialto California. He graduated from Eisenhower High School in summer of 1997. Just like many young adults Jose didn’t know what he wanted to do after high school and attended many different schools, but finally quit school when then girlfriend Paula Alonzo got pregnant. Later that year they got married and after being married for 10 years Jose decided to go back to school because of a freak accident at work; he graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2017 with a Bachelor of Accounting while working part-time for a concrete company.
Pedro Alonso Lopez was born in 1949 in Tolmia, Colombia. His mother was a Colombian prostitute who had thirteen children, Pedro was the seventh. At age eight, Pedro was caught by his mother, touching his sister’s breast after she kicked him out of the house and never return.
Mariano Escobedo was a healthy man he was my Grandparents great great grandparent. He was a Mexican General from Mexico. He wanted to govern Mexico, he fought against dynasty and he won. Escobedo fought against the French Invasion in Mexico to govern Mexico. He became a great general who fought against Napoleon III (French.) In Mexico City airport and in Monterey his name is printed and also in some streets of difference parts of Mexico. Mexico had borrowed money from England, France and Spain. In 1861 representatives from this countries got together in London to find a way to get Mexico to pay this countries. Troops from this three countries went to Veracruz in 1862. They were welcomed from representative from Mexico. The general Juan Prim, from Spain accepted the way Mexico was going to pay little by little so as England. The representative from France is not accepted he wanted the money and ordered his troops to prepare to fight. The government of Benito Juarez organize the defense. He made in charge the general Ignazio Zaragoza to get to Puebla and fight with the French. They attacked each other in the " Fuertes de Loreto y Guadalupe. The troops of Zaragoza, helped from the Indians Zacapoaxtla. In 1862of Mat 5 they won against the French. The emperor from France, Luis Napoleon Bonaparte, wanted to extend his powers in America and in Asia. He dreamed to form a great empire. Mexico took advantage of that situation to peek an European emperor to govern Mexico and to stop the politic anarchy. Luis Napoleon made them recommend Fernando Maximiliano de Habsurgo, brother of the emperor Francisco Jose. Maximiliano accepted his embarkation to Mexico but with her wife, the princess Carlota Amalia de Belgica. Luis Napoleon send his army to wish napoleon luck. Austria and Belgica also send troops. The emperors arrived to Mexico at the end of 1864. In Veracruz, Puebla were great big welcomes. To confront the invaders, to the president Juarez formed a government itinerante, who traveled from the capital to the north border. From this places it continue the position of the millitar action from the armies from the North, West, command from
Celando, M. P., & Kaslow, N.J. (2000). Culturally competent family interventions: Review and case illustrations. American Journal Of Family Therapy, 28(3), 217-228. doi: 10.1080/01926180050081658
People disappear for several reasons; it could be to start a new life, it could be to hide from someone or it could be because someone doesn’t want you found. This paper is about the disappearance of Yessenia Suarez and her two children. Can the police determine if a crime was committed and by whom? This paper will describe the evidence and the timeline of events in the case.
Remember, self-reflection is vital to becoming a culturally-competent counselor. The counselor should consistently re-examine their worldview and personal beliefs about diverse individuals and other cultures. The idea is for the counselor to explore their own prejudices, emotions, and preconceived notions of those that differ from themselves. Remaining curious and willing to learn about culturally distinct groups is a practical way of working effectively with varied clients in counseling and understanding what barriers and prejudices are typical in their
The diversity among the U.S. population is very large and continue to grow, especially the Hispanic group. More so, health promotion can be defined or perceived in many ways depends on the minority group and their culture beliefs. As health care provider, recognizing and providing cultural competent is very important. In addition, assessing the health disparities among the minority group and teaching them how to promote good health will benefit along the way. Furthermore, health care providers have the role to promote good health but without proper education and acknowledge cultural awareness will be impossible to accomplish.
Cultural advisory competences allow counselors to be aware of their own cultural values, and prejudices. A great strength is they aware, of how the cultural background influences the attitudes, values and prejudices that are held. On the other hand, counselors can recognize the limits of their multicultural competence (Arredondo, Toporek, Brown, Jones, Locke, Sanchez & Stadler, 1996). The knowledge received in the literature is complete, and interesting. As counselors we must know the reality of multiculturalism in a general way. But in the professional practice two recommendations that I give are the following.
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Actively developing and practicing appropriate, relevant, and sensitive intervention strategies and skills in working with his or her culturally different clients
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Open Colleges Workbook (2012) Diploma of Counselling: Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers