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This group assembles
Spanish and Portuguese speaking mental health workers in Israel, in
order to:
- Constitute a
place of encounter for the Spanish-speaking professionals that permits
them to discuss mental health related themes employing their mother
tongue, a central element in their professional and personal identity.
- Reaffirm the
positive aspects of the identity prior to the immigration, as a condition
that eases their integration to Israeli society, relying on the feeling
of carring out a specific contribution based on the culture and the
professional formation the immigrant brings to the new country.
- Facilitate the
integration of professionals arriving at Israel.
- Encourage creating
awareness of the immigration process with the purpose of understanding
immigration processes in other regions of the world, and developing
therapeutic knowledge in immigrants' treatment.
- Maintain and
develop professional bonds with the Latin-American countries and with
Spain, as well as with Spanish
and Portuguese speaking professionals, wherever they be found.
- Create a network
of dialogue and interaction with other countries, generating bridges
among the Spanish and Portuguese speaking professionals and the native
Israelis, and also among Israel and other countries where the Spanish
and Portuguese tongues are used.
This association is
pluralist and interdisciplinary, and its activities are open to the
public in general.
It is an independent
agency that establishes and maintains relations with institutions of
the academic world.
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