Obeso P, Bordatto O
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 1979;6(3):337-44. doi: 10.3109/00952997909001722.
This paper presents an overview of Puerto Rican history, its traditional effect on Puerto Rican women, and its applicability in treating the Puerto Rican female drug user. The paper focuses on items of historical and cultural significance and includes data gathered from selected interviews of Puerto Rican females in treatment. What has been compiled here is a description of characteristics, traits, and attributes that distinguish Puerto Ricans from other ethnic groups and those traits traditionally attributed to their women. It takes into consideration such things as the role of the family, religious implications, "machismo" behavior exhibited by males upon females, attitudinal differences between mainland and island females, and changes undergone during migration. There currently exists a paucity of literature concerning the treatment of Puerto Ricans in general and even less exists with regard to Puerto Rican women. This paper, therefore, purports only to present preliminary findings in this area. Its intent is to serve as an initial research effort, to encourage further areas of study, and to contribute valuable information for those who currently treat ethnic populations.
本文概述了波多黎各的历史、其对波多黎各女性的传统影响以及在治疗波多黎各女性吸毒者方面的适用性。本文重点关注具有历史和文化意义的事项，并包括从对接受治疗的波多黎各女性的选定访谈中收集的数据。这里汇编的是对使波多黎各人有别于其他种族群体的特征、特质和属性以及传统上归因于其女性的那些特质的描述。它考虑了诸如家庭的作用、宗教影响、男性对女性表现出的“大男子主义”行为、美国大陆女性和岛屿女性之间的态度差异以及移民过程中所经历的变化等因素。目前关于一般波多黎各人治疗的文献很少，而关于波多黎各女性的文献更少。因此，本文仅旨在呈现该领域的初步研究结果。其目的是作为一项初步研究工作，鼓励进一步的研究领域，并为目前治疗不同种族人群的人员提供有价值的信息。
