Gilbert A Quintero
Biographic Data
| ID | 87088 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert A Quintero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Quintero |
| SIGNATURE | QUINTERO G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana, Missoula, MT |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hitting the Wall: Youth Perspectives on Boredom, Trouble, and Drug Use Dynamics in Rural New Mexico
We examine the experience of boredom and its relationship to troublemaking and drug use among rural youth in southwestern New Mexico. We draw on qualitative research with area youth to describe what they think about drug use and how they situate it within their social circumstances. We then locate youth drug use within globalized processes affecting this setting, including a local economic environment with limited educational and employment oppor…
"Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of "Culture: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings
Mandates for culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services call for behavioral health providers to recognize and engage cultural issues. These efforts to incorporate culture typically focus on client culture, but provider views of culture can also influence the provision of services. Analysis of 42 semistructured interviews with behavioral health providers suggests that culture is considered by many to be an obstacle to help see…
Cultural models of masculinity and drug use: “Machismo,” heroin, and street survival on the U.S.-Mexico border
This paper examines the interrelations between “machismo,” drug use, and aggression among injection drug users (IDUs) in a US-Mexico border community. Underscored is the directive force and social impact of “machismo” in the day-to-day life-worlds of Mexican male heroin addicts, or “tecatos.” This focus not only provides a broad description of the cultural model of “machismo” elucidated by this group of men, but also illuminates how ideas of masc…
Gender, Discord, and Illness: Navajo Philosophy and Healing in the Native American Church
Many studies of different societies throughout the world have noted how discord in prominent social relationships manifests itself as specific illnesses. This paper explores how the discord characteristic of male/female relations is related to illness in Navajo culture and how gender differences as conceptualized in Navajo cosmology are used to facilitate the healing of this discord. It will be shown that traditional Navajo philosophy recognizes …
Cultural models of masculinity and drug use: “Machismo,” heroin, and street survival on the U.S.-Mexico border
This paper examines the interrelations between “machismo,” drug use, and aggression among injection drug users (IDUs) in a US-Mexico border community. Underscored is the directive force and social impact of “machismo” in the day-to-day life-worlds of Mexican male heroin addicts, or “tecatos.” This focus not only provides a broad description of the cultural model of “machismo” elucidated by this group of men, but also illuminates how ideas of masc…
"Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of "Culture: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings
Mandates for culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services call for behavioral health providers to recognize and engage cultural issues. These efforts to incorporate culture typically focus on client culture, but provider views of culture can also influence the provision of services. Analysis of 42 semistructured interviews with behavioral health providers suggests that culture is considered by many to be an obstacle to help see…
Hitting the Wall: Youth Perspectives on Boredom, Trouble, and Drug Use Dynamics in Rural New Mexico
We examine the experience of boredom and its relationship to troublemaking and drug use among rural youth in southwestern New Mexico. We draw on qualitative research with area youth to describe what they think about drug use and how they situate it within their social circumstances. We then locate youth drug use within globalized processes affecting this setting, including a local economic environment with limited educational and employment oppor…
Gender, Discord, and Illness: Navajo Philosophy and Healing in the Native American Church
Many studies of different societies throughout the world have noted how discord in prominent social relationships manifests itself as specific illnesses. This paper explores how the discord characteristic of male/female relations is related to illness in Navajo culture and how gender differences as conceptualized in Navajo cosmology are used to facilitate the healing of this discord. It will be shown that traditional Navajo philosophy recognizes …
Gender, Discord, and Illness: Navajo Philosophy and Healing in the Native American Church
Many studies of different societies throughout the world have noted how discord in prominent social relationships manifests itself as specific illnesses. This paper explores how the discord characteristic of male/female relations is related to illness in Navajo culture and how gender differences as conceptualized in Navajo cosmology are used to facilitate the healing of this discord. It will be shown that traditional Navajo philosophy recognizes …
Cultural models of masculinity and drug use: “Machismo,” heroin, and street survival on the U.S.-Mexico border
This paper examines the interrelations between “machismo,” drug use, and aggression among injection drug users (IDUs) in a US-Mexico border community. Underscored is the directive force and social impact of “machismo” in the day-to-day life-worlds of Mexican male heroin addicts, or “tecatos.” This focus not only provides a broad description of the cultural model of “machismo” elucidated by this group of men, but also illuminates how ideas of masc…
"Substance Abuse Treatment Provider Views of "Culture: Implications for Behavioral Health Care in Rural Settings
Mandates for culturally competent substance abuse and mental health services call for behavioral health providers to recognize and engage cultural issues. These efforts to incorporate culture typically focus on client culture, but provider views of culture can also influence the provision of services. Analysis of 42 semistructured interviews with behavioral health providers suggests that culture is considered by many to be an obstacle to help see…
Hitting the Wall: Youth Perspectives on Boredom, Trouble, and Drug Use Dynamics in Rural New Mexico
We examine the experience of boredom and its relationship to troublemaking and drug use among rural youth in southwestern New Mexico. We draw on qualitative research with area youth to describe what they think about drug use and how they situate it within their social circumstances. We then locate youth drug use within globalized processes affecting this setting, including a local economic environment with limited educational and employment oppor…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aggression (1 works)