Factors determining effective psychiatric outpatient treatment for Mexican-Americans.
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.
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