Interpretación en el ámbito de la salud mental. Una aproximación a los protocolos de actuación
- Carmen Valero Garcés 1
- Silvia Damianova Radeva 1
- Ana Belén Arredondo Provecho 2
- 1 Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (España)spaña)
- 2 Universidad de León (España)
ISSN: 0717-1285, 0718-5758
Year of publication: 2023
Issue Title: Retos presentes y futuros para la traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos: Interculturalidad, multilingüismo y tecnología
Issue: 13
Pages: 1-18
Type: Article
More publications in: Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Sustainable development goals
Abstract
Mental health is a fundamental right. However, the mechanisms to achieve its fulfillment when there are linguistic and/or cultural barriers are not as well developed as they must. Interpreting in mental health settings is a new topic with not much researched background. This study follows a qualitative methodology. So, the main objective of this article is to make a comparison between existing guidelines and protocols on working with interpreters in mental health settings and go deep through the knowledge of this specialization. This would be considered as a starting point for future researches, and, at the same time, this would help mental health specialists to work with interpreters in cross-cultural therapies. We started from the point that health care is a fundamental right. Then, we examine insti-tutions and existing legislative roles giving special emphasis on foreign populations that do not share the same language and/or culture. After this contextualization, we focused on putting in common different points that the different analyzed protocols share. Finally, we made some conclusions from the comparison of these protocols.