Immigrants' utilization of specialist mental healthcare according to age, country of origin, and migration history: a nation-wide register study in Norway

DS Abebe, L Lien, JI Elstad - Social psychiatry and psychiatric …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose As the immigrant population rises in Norway, it becomes ever more important to
consider the responsiveness of health services to the specific needs of these immigrants. It …

The effects of brief, passive psychoeducation on suicide literacy, stigma, and attitudes toward help-seeking among Latino immigrants living in the United States.

AR Dueweke, AJ Bridges - Stigma and Health, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Latino immigrants underutilize mental health treatment services compared with other ethnic
groups, despite rates of mental illness that are comparable with those observed among the …

Interactive effect of immigration-related factors with legal and discrimination acculturative stress in predicting depression among Asian American immigrants

S Singh, AJ Schulz, HW Neighbors… - Community mental health …, 2017 - Springer
This study examined the impact of discrimination and legal acculturative stress on Major
Depression Episode lifetime among Asian American immigrants. It further examined the role …

Culturally adapted dialectical behavior therapy in an underserved community mental health setting: A latina adult case study.

A Mercado, Y Hinojosa - Practice Innovations, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has become the treatment of choice for complex clinical
disorders. However, there is lack of evidence supporting this approach with culturally …

Cultural strengths of Latino-American subgroups: Differential associations with their self-rated mental and physical health

AL Ai, HJ Carretta, E Aisenberg - Journal of Cross-Cultural …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Few studies have examined subgroup differences regarding the role of collective cultural
strengths among Latinos, the largest minority population in the United States today. Based …

Social work with Latino immigrants: Contextual approach to acculturative stress among Cuban, Mexican and Puerto Rican women

V Bekteshi, M Van Hook, J Levin… - British Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
By examining the differences in the influence of contextual factors in the relationship
between acculturative stress and psychological distress among Latinas from Mexico, Puerto …

The Great American Recession and forgone healthcare: Do widened disparities between African-Americans and Whites remain?

JL Travers, CC Cohen, AW Dick, PW Stone - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objective During the Great Recession in America, African-Americans opted to forgo
healthcare more than other racial/ethnic groups. It is not understood whether disparities in …

[PDF][PDF] Mental health service use by Asians: a New Zealand census

CS Chow, RT Mulder - The New Zealand Medical Journal (Online), 2017 - nzmj.org.nz
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Asians are the third largest ethnic group in New Zealand. Little
is known about their use of mental health services and the psychiatric diagnoses they …

Mental health of heroin users with differing injection drug use histories: A non-treatment sample of Mexican American young adult men

KM Nowotny, T Perdue, A Cepeda, A Valdez - Drug and alcohol …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background While the comorbidity of mental health and injecting heroin has been
documented, current research is limited by describing the mental health of people who inject …

Synergistic effects of pain intensity and experiential avoidance in relation to anxiety symptoms and disorders among economically disadvantaged latinos in a …

J Bakhshaie, BY Kauffman, AG Viana, M Garza… - Journal of anxiety …, 2017 - Elsevier
Latinos are subject to numerous health inequalities, including mental health disparity for
anxiety and its disorders. In fact, there is strikingly little understanding of transdiagnostic risk …