Within this episode Dr. Lorraine Benuto discusses the stigma associated with mental health in the LatinX population. She shares creative ways she and her team have worked to address mental stigma and break down language barriers. She talks about important ways to reduce health disparities, and improve health for minority populations.
Lorraine T. Benuto, Ph.D.
Dr. Lorraine T. Benuto is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2009 and completed an internship at the Veterans Administration in San Juan, Puerto Rico. While Dr. Benuto’s research is broadly focused on ethnic minority behavioral health, much of the work that she does is focused on interpersonal violence, trauma, and Post-Traumatic Stress disorder. She is currently director of the DICE Center; and of three clinical service programs: La Cliníca VIVA, THRIVE, and SIERRA Families. The programs are focused on providing behavioral health services to Spanish-speaking Latinx community members, victims of interpersonal violence, and children who are at risk of abuse (respectively).
