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Southern Oregon University is offering a new seminar for health and human service professionals —which includes a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico—to address the question of Hispanic mental health care concerns. Officials in Oregon have seen Latino clients misdiagnosed with mental illness simply because their behavior was unfamiliar to Anglos.

Mental health specialist Alejandra Moreno told the Mali Tribune: "The same disorder might look different in a Hispanic person than in an Anglo because of our different mourning traditions or practices of disciplining our children."

The seminar should close that gap somewhat. Can I go too?

Mental health care: lost in translation?

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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.