Expanding Possibilities : Flexibility and Solidarity with Under-resourced Immigrant Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic

© 2020 Family Process Institute..

The novel coronavirus has added new anxieties and forms of grieving to the myriad practical and emotional burdens already present in the lives of underserved and uninsured immigrant families and communities. In this article, we relate our experiences since the COVID-19 crisis to the lessons we have learned over time as mental health professionals working with families in no-cost, student-managed community comprehensive health clinics in academic-community partnerships. We compare and contrast the learnings of flexibility of time, space, procedures, or attendance we acquired in this clinical community setting during regular times, with the new challenges families and therapists face, and the adaptations needed to continue to work with our clients in culturally responsive and empowering ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. We describe families, students, professionals, promotoras (community links), and IT support staff joining together in solidarity as the creative problem solvers of new possibilities when families do not have access to Wi-Fi, smartphones, or computers, or suffer overcrowding and lack of privacy. We describe many anxieties related to economic insecurity or fear of facing death alone, but also how to visualize expanding possibilities in styles of parenting or types of emotional support among family members as elements of hope that may endure beyond these unprecedented tragic times of loss and uncertainty.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:59

Enthalten in:

Family process - 59(2020), 3 vom: 15. Sept., Seite 865-882

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Falicov, Celia [VerfasserIn]
Niño, Alba [VerfasserIn]
D'Urso, Sol [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

健康差别
社区诊所
移民
缺乏资源的
远程健康诊疗
COVID的影响
COVID-19 Impact
Clínica comunitaria
Community Clinic
De escasos recursos
Desigualdad sanitaria
Efecto de la COVID-19
Health Disparities
Immigrants
Inmigrantes
Journal Article
Latinx
Telehealth
Telemedicina
Under-resourced

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.09.2020

Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/famp.12578

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM312398913