Spanish for Creative Clinicians: Recent Episodes

Antonio "Tony" Milland-Santiago, MT-BC

Hola Familia! Are you a creative clinician working with Spanish speaking clients? Do you want to connect with them in more meaningful ways? Then you are in the right place! The Spanish for Creative Clinicians Podcast was created to provide you with guides, tips & tools, as well as in-depth interviews with Spanish speaking clinicians from a variety of countries that will equip you to have more engaging sessions with your Spanish speaking clients. It's like learning clinical Spanish skills from a close friend! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sccp/support

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Carlos-Andres Rodriguez is a Music Therapist for Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care in Miami, FL. Carlos-Andres obtained his music therapy degree from the University of Miami in 2015. His experiences working in hospice and palliative care began with volunteering between semesters from 2013, an internship in hospice and bereavement in 2014, and a full-time position after obtaining his MT-BC certification in May 2015. He completed the Hospice & Palliative Care Music Therapist (HPMT) certification in 2017. Having previous experience working with Latin American and Caribbean patients across Miami-Dade county, his more recent work is focused towards the hospice inpatient units, addressing acute end-of-life concerns and coordinating bereavement support for patient families.

SHOW NOTES

  • Life in Miami, family in Nicaragua
  • The importance of Spanish in his household
  • 95% of people in Hialeah speak Spanish at home
  • College career (double majored in Music Ed and Music Therapy!)
  • “Knowing Spanish in Miami has been priceless”
  • Many Cuban nurses in Miami (you won’t believe what their professional career actually was in Cuba!)
  • When surrounding yourself with co-workers, “There’s beauty in learning from each other.”
  • Being a mediator as an bilingual speaker for staff members
  • Developing an open-mind when working with patient’s from other cultures
  • The end of life experience with Latinx patients and families
  • Food intake equates health
  • Explaining Latinx that hospice is a service and not a place
  • Common Spanish words used in hospice care
  • Popular songs in Spanish for hospice patients
  • The use of the word “negrito/a” as a term of endearment in Latinx countries

Spanish vocabulary in this episode:

  1. John Doe = Fulanito/a
  2. Hospice = hospicio
  3. Gossip = chisme
  4. Dying (imminent death) = muriendo
  5. Declining (progressive) = declinando
  6. Sleeps more = duerme más
  7. Eating less = comiendo menos
  8. Anxiety = ansiedad

PPS (Palliative Performance Scale): http://www.npcrc.org/files/news/palliative_performance_scale_PPSv2.pdf

Popular music for hospice in Miami

  • Guantanamera - Celia Cruz (check her out in this sound check!)
  • Perfidia - Trío Los Panchos
  • Sin Ti - Trío Los Panchos
  • Nosotros - Trio Los Panchos (goodbye letter)
  • En Mi Viejo San Juan
  • Pescador de Hombre (Lord You Have Come to the Lakeshore)
  • A Mi Manera (My Way) - Vicente Fernandez
  • Quizás, quizás, quizás - lovely version by Andrea Bocelli

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Meet our guest:

Luis Armando Rivera is a music therapist and clinical psychologist from the Dominican Republic. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelors Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Universidad Iberoamericana UNIBE in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 2007. Later, he pursued a Bachelors Degree in Music Therapy at Berklee College of Music, interning at Florida Hospital Orlando (now AdventHealth), and then working at Joyful Music Therapy from 2012 to 2013. Luis has received additional training in NICU Music Therapy and Neurologic Music Therapy from the Robert F. Unkefer Academy. He later returned to the Dominican Republic in 2013, where he is the Coordinator of Complementary Therapies at CAID (Center for the Integral Attention to Children with Disabilities), an initiative of the First Lady of the Dominican Republic where children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, and Down Syndrome receive a diversity of medical and therapeutic services. He also works in his private practice, seeing a diverse population of patients both as a music therapist as well as a Clinical Psychologist. In 2016, he taught the Intro to Music Therapy course at Universidad Iberoamericana UNIBE. In the past year, he has released 4 singles of his own music.

References:

  • “Atención Atención” main website
  • Delicious mofongo recipe!
  • Chicharrón
  • “In the Heights” by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Dominican concentrations in the USA:

  • New York
  • Florida
  • New England

Popular Songs and Artists to Learn:

  • “La Bilirrubina” by Juan Luis Guerra (merengue classic!)
  • Reggaeton songs (make sure they are appropriate!)
  • “Compadre Pedro Juan”
  • Aventura
  • Monchy y Alexandra
  • Prince Royce

Musical genres:

  • Merengue
  • Perico Ripia’o
  • Bachata

Instruments:

  • Tambora
  • Congas

Dominican Spanish rules:

  1. Substitute certain “r” for “l” and contractions (Ex. Marcado [marked] =Malca’o)
  2. Dropped “r” and “l” when at the end of words (Ex. Comprar [to buy] = Comprá)
  3. Northerners change words that end in “r” with “i” and “s” is dropped (Ex. Martes [Tuesday] = Maite)

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Hola Familia! In this second episode, I share with Tricia 5 tips for learning Spanish, PLUS, I share with you 7 more as a 'thank you' for being part of the Spanish for Creative Clinicians audience! Also, make sure to check out the BRAND NEW WEBSITE: www.spanishforcreativeclinicians.com

The tips + tools discussed in this episode are:

  1. The importance of correct vowel pronunciation
  2. The differences of the Spanish pronouns for "You"
  3. Be curious, never assume
  4. Join the Challenge! (listen for details!)
  5. Google Translate, does it work?
  6. Connect with a Spanish speaking colleague
  7. Labeling items around your home
  8. Switch your smartphone to Spanish
  9. Chrome extension: Linguistic Spanish
  10. Watch movies in Spanish with subtitles
  11. Write your grocery list in Spanish
  12. Listen to radio channels in Spanish from around the world with apps such as Radio Garden
  13. Find a Pen Pal!

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Hola Familia! For this first episode,  I am sharing an interview conducted by my colleague, Tricia Caiati. This episode features a segment from her podcast, Music Therapy Chronicles (we are crossposting!).  In this interview, I get to share with you my story, including my upbringing in "the Island of Enchantment", Puerto Rico, and how it has informed my practice as a board-certified music therapist (MT-BC). We also dive into the birth of the Spanish for Creative Clinicians podcast!

Learn about Tricia in this interview by the Creative Therapy Umbrella podcast. 

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Hola Familia and welcome to the Spanish for Creative Clinicians podcast!

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