Mexico is a country that has long been considered a poor nation, with many more people classed as poor than can reasonably be considered rich. In recent years the Mexican people have had a dramatic shift in their demographic outlook, with the biggest change in the fertility rate falling from 6.5 in the early 1970s to the current rate of 2.2 - easily the fastest rate of decline in the world today. . Given the importance of family to the Mexican people, it is difficult to imagine that these new rates will be sustainable in the future and will have dramatic negative implications for the economies of both Mexico and the United States as the population ages without replacement workers (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia -Preto, 2005; Sedano, 2008). The Mexican people are a people who have their roots among the Mayans, Aztecs and other Native Americans. They also often share an ancestry with the Spanish Europeans who conquered and colonized much of what is now Mexico and the American Southwest. Their common language is Spanish and the majority of Mexicans follow the Catholic religion, which, interestingly, has changed in many ways to include many of the traditions and symbols of other older religions practiced before the Spanish conquest and forced conversion of the Mexicans . natives. There is still a deep attachment to “folk” medicine to treat ailments that are most likely caused by stress or other psychological factors such as fear, the “evil eye” and even indigestion (McGoldrick, et. al., 2005). in Mexico it is predominantly patriarchal in nature, there is also a lot of respect due to the mothers of the family. Family types range from nuclear families… in the middle of the paper… to more educated parents (McCabe, 2002). Factors such as income, perceived stigma, expectations of therapist immediacy, client matching, and even acculturation were found to have no significant effects on dropout rates. The strongest predictors were parental reliance on strict discipline in reaction to behavioral and emotional problems along with perceived barriers to obtaining treatment (McCabe, 2002). While it is seen that acculturation can increase the client's ability to seek assistance and that parental acculturation can help them better understand the role of therapy in helping with behavioral and emotional problems will help more adolescents with these problems to seek help is It has been shown that improving parents' expectations and attitudes toward therapy can have better outcomes on retention ( McCabe, 2002).