Service Delivery Issues in Early Termination of Latino Clients

Abstract

This paper explores the nature and meaning of the early termination experience from outpatient counseling among Latinos. A theoretically grounded perspective is forwarded to explain the nuances of minority group interface with human services (Green, 1995), and the early termination phenomenon among this population. The authors offer an explanatory model, referred to as the repelled client, which undergirds their central argument concerning the need to reexamine important aspects of cross-cultural counseling practice.

Key Words:

• Service delivery
• termination
• Latinos
• repelled clients
• counseling
• cross-cultural