Karol Hardin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3763217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karol Hardin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karol |
| FAMILY NAME | Hardin |
| SIGNATURE | HARDIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5440-3137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Addressing the Spanish-Language Workforce Gap Through Education: A Review of Graduate Programs with Spanish-Language Components
The number of U.S. bilingual social and behavioral healthcare workers is inadequate compared to the demand. Formal training generally omits provision of services in another language, and trainees may provide language services beyond their competency. This scoping review examined graduate programs in social work and behavioral health in the United States and Texas. We found just nine peer-reviewed articles with language program description in the …
Gracias a Dios a Pragmalinguistic Study of Gratitude in the Wake of Crises in Puerto Rico
Gratitude is valued in both religion and moral philosophy, as it benefits interpersonal relationships between the beneficiary and the provider. However, the Spanish expression gracias a Dios, ‘thank God,’ is not always employed to express gratitude and ocurrs in both religious and non-religious discourse. This pragmalinguistic study investigated functions of this expression in a religious context in Puerto Rico. Gratitude expressions were identif…
Pursuing Testimonial Justice: Language Access through Patient-centered Outcomes Research with Spanish Speakers
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), rooted in the more established tradition of Community-Based Participatory Research (Deeb-Sossa 2019), seeks to empower patients in determining the most appropriate healthcare options by including and amplifying their voices in every aspect of the research process. In this article, we report on the outcomes of a four-year PCOR engagement effort in the US Midwest that aimed to include and amplify patient v…
Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility by Parizad T. Dejbord Sawan
Reviewed by: Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility by Parizad T. Dejbord Sawan Karol Hardin Dejbord Sawan, Parizad T. Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility. Routledge, 2020. Pp. 207. ISBN 978-0-36732-243-4. The well-documented need for Spanish in healthcare professions has resulted in a variety of textbooks and products; therefore, it would be easy to discount Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral…
An Overview of Medical Spanish Curricula in the United States
The US health care system faces linguistic challenges. Disparities in language-concordant care for Spanish speakers persist due to current demographics and a paucity of bilingual providers. A proliferation of courses in Spanish for health care professions suggests that universities and post-graduate institutions are attempting to meet this need; however, the quantity of programs does not necessarily indicate quality or achievement of desired outc…
What goes unsaid: Expression of complaints and advice about health in Eastern Ecuador
In this article, I examine patient complaints and folk wisdom in the context of doctor-patient communication in Eastern Ecuador. The study specifically focuses on implied information in complaints to physicians and on folk-medical advice in which speakers mean something different from what they state literally. Data were obtained from Spanish-speaking medical personnel as well as from participant observation over a period of years. Physicians ini…
Targeting Oral and Cultural Proficiency for Medical Personnel: An Examination of Current Medical Spanish Textbooks
Demand for medical Spanish courses has grown with the rising needs of Spanish-speaking patients in the United States, but while there is no shortage of beginning medical Spanish textbooks, very few target the intermediate level. This article examines eighteen medical Spanish texts published in the last twenty years with respect to seven factors: 1) targeted proficiency level, 2) vocabulary, 3) oral and aural activities, 4) grammatical concepts, 5…
The Spanish notion of Lie: Revisiting Coleman and Kay
The Spanish notion of Lie: Revisiting Coleman and Kay
An Overview of Medical Spanish Curricula in the United States
The US health care system faces linguistic challenges. Disparities in language-concordant care for Spanish speakers persist due to current demographics and a paucity of bilingual providers. A proliferation of courses in Spanish for health care professions suggests that universities and post-graduate institutions are attempting to meet this need; however, the quantity of programs does not necessarily indicate quality or achievement of desired outc…
Targeting Oral and Cultural Proficiency for Medical Personnel: An Examination of Current Medical Spanish Textbooks
Demand for medical Spanish courses has grown with the rising needs of Spanish-speaking patients in the United States, but while there is no shortage of beginning medical Spanish textbooks, very few target the intermediate level. This article examines eighteen medical Spanish texts published in the last twenty years with respect to seven factors: 1) targeted proficiency level, 2) vocabulary, 3) oral and aural activities, 4) grammatical concepts, 5…
The Spanish notion of Lie: Revisiting Coleman and Kay
Targeting Oral and Cultural Proficiency for Medical Personnel: An Examination of Current Medical Spanish Textbooks
Demand for medical Spanish courses has grown with the rising needs of Spanish-speaking patients in the United States, but while there is no shortage of beginning medical Spanish textbooks, very few target the intermediate level. This article examines eighteen medical Spanish texts published in the last twenty years with respect to seven factors: 1) targeted proficiency level, 2) vocabulary, 3) oral and aural activities, 4) grammatical concepts, 5…
What goes unsaid: Expression of complaints and advice about health in Eastern Ecuador
In this article, I examine patient complaints and folk wisdom in the context of doctor-patient communication in Eastern Ecuador. The study specifically focuses on implied information in complaints to physicians and on folk-medical advice in which speakers mean something different from what they state literally. Data were obtained from Spanish-speaking medical personnel as well as from participant observation over a period of years. Physicians ini…
An Overview of Medical Spanish Curricula in the United States
The US health care system faces linguistic challenges. Disparities in language-concordant care for Spanish speakers persist due to current demographics and a paucity of bilingual providers. A proliferation of courses in Spanish for health care professions suggests that universities and post-graduate institutions are attempting to meet this need; however, the quantity of programs does not necessarily indicate quality or achievement of desired outc…
Pursuing Testimonial Justice: Language Access through Patient-centered Outcomes Research with Spanish Speakers
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), rooted in the more established tradition of Community-Based Participatory Research (Deeb-Sossa 2019), seeks to empower patients in determining the most appropriate healthcare options by including and amplifying their voices in every aspect of the research process. In this article, we report on the outcomes of a four-year PCOR engagement effort in the US Midwest that aimed to include and amplify patient v…
Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility by Parizad T. Dejbord Sawan
Reviewed by: Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility by Parizad T. Dejbord Sawan Karol Hardin Dejbord Sawan, Parizad T. Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility. Routledge, 2020. Pp. 207. ISBN 978-0-36732-243-4. The well-documented need for Spanish in healthcare professions has resulted in a variety of textbooks and products; therefore, it would be easy to discount Beginning Medical Spanish: Oral…
Addressing the Spanish-Language Workforce Gap Through Education: A Review of Graduate Programs with Spanish-Language Components
The number of U.S. bilingual social and behavioral healthcare workers is inadequate compared to the demand. Formal training generally omits provision of services in another language, and trainees may provide language services beyond their competency. This scoping review examined graduate programs in social work and behavioral health in the United States and Texas. We found just nine peer-reviewed articles with language program description in the …
Gracias a Dios a Pragmalinguistic Study of Gratitude in the Wake of Crises in Puerto Rico
Gratitude is valued in both religion and moral philosophy, as it benefits interpersonal relationships between the beneficiary and the provider. However, the Spanish expression gracias a Dios, ‘thank God,’ is not always employed to express gratitude and ocurrs in both religious and non-religious discourse. This pragmalinguistic study investigated functions of this expression in a religious context in Puerto Rico. Gratitude expressions were identif…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Health care (2 works)