Concentrations

Education

  •  Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, 1995
    Arizona State University

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Publications

Book

Creating Infrastructures for Latino Mental Health. (2011).
Demographic trends for Latino populations suggest a need to provide greater access to mental health services. In light of limited resources, chapters focus on specific strategies to augment capacity for mental health service provision for specific Latino subpopulations. The book highlights innovative ways to address the limited and unstable mental health services infrastructure available to Latino populations today.
  • Buki, L. P., & Piedra, L. M.
  • Springer
  • Latino
  • Hispanic
  • Mental health
  • Access to services

Articles

Addressing colorectal cancer screening gaps in Uruguay: A health literacy perspective
  • Buki, L. P., Reich, M., Abbamonte, J. M., Sommer, R. K., Sanabia, S., Larrosa, D., Sologaistoa, B., & Blanco, M. (2026).
  • Cancer Causes & Control, 37, 43.
  • Cancer prevention
  • Early cancer detection
  • Uruguay
  • Health literacy
  • Latin America
“Cultural and conceptual knowledge”: Reformulation and conceptual analysis of a key component of the health literacy model.
  • Buki, L. P., Quintero Johnson, J. M., Knight, K., & Walton, A. (2024).
  • Social Science & Medicine, 356, 117150.
  • Health literacy
  • Culture
  • Conceptual analysis
  • Cancer control
Acculturation and breast cancer screening in Latina women: Unraveling reasons for mixed results over 44 years of research.
  • Buki, L. P., Liao, H.-Y., Montoya, Y., Sommer, R. K., French, B. H., & McCaughey, T. (2024).
  • International Journal of Intercultural Research, 100, 101974.
  • Cultural factors
  • Cancer detection
  • Cancer control
  • Hispanic
Creating community: Expanding access to psychosocial programs for Latina breast cancer survivors.
  • Buki, L. P., Schwartz, J. R., & McInerney, E. E. W. (2023).
  • Psycho-Oncology, 32(6), 888–894.
  • Cancer support
  • Community-based
  • Cancer survivorship
  • Hispanic
Development and psychometric validation of the Colorectal Cancer Literacy Scale - Uruguay Version.
  • Buki, L. P., Reich, M., Wang, J., Sanabia, S., Larrosa, D., Sologaistoa, B., & Blanco, M. (2023).
  • Frontiers in Public Health, 11.