Dealing with distress from the COVID‐19 pandemic: Mental health stressors and coping strategies in vulnerable Latinx communities

LM Garcini, J Rosenfeld, G Kneese… - Health & social care …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Distress secondary to the COVID‐19 pandemic has been substantial, especially in
vulnerable Latinx communities who are carrying an undue share of the pandemic‐related …

Humanitarian crisis on the US–Mexico border: mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers

FR Morales, KL Nguyen-Finn, M Haidar… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Families and youth from the Northern Triangle of Central America seeking asylum
in the US report substantial trauma exposure and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Sexual …

Migratory grief: a systematic review

A Renner, V Schmidt, A Kersting - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Migration is often accompanied by interpersonal, material and abstract losses
and can be associated with migratory grief. The correlates of migratory grief have not yet …

Cultural adaptation profiles among Mexican-descent Latinxs: Acculturation, acculturative stress, and depression.

MW Driscoll, L Torres - Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: Person-centered analysis was used to examine profiles of acculturation and
acculturative stress among Mexican-descent adults in relation to depression. It was …

[HTML][HTML] Immigration policy and immigrants' sleep. Evidence from DACA

O Giuntella, J Lonsky, F Mazzonna, L Stella - Journal of Economic Behavior …, 2021 - Elsevier
Stress is associated with sleep problems and poor sleep is linked to mental health and
depression symptoms. The stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy …

Professional guidelines for psychological evaluations in immigration proceedings.

A Mercado, CS Antuña, C Bailey, L Garcini… - Journal of Latinx …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
La evaluación del funcionamiento y el bienestar social y psicológico puede añadir
información valiosa a los procesos de inmigración y apoyar a los organismos …

“Se vale llorar y se vale reír”: Latina immigrants' coping strategies for maintaining mental health in the face of immigration-related stressors

F Rios Casas, D Ryan, G Perez, S Maurer… - Journal of racial and …, 2020 - Springer
Latina immigrant women in the US are at increased risk for poor mental health status, due to
socioeconomic-and immigration-related stressors. We sought to describe the mechanisms …

Trauma in the American asylum process: Experiences of immigrant families under the migrant protection protocols.

A Mercado, A Venta, F Morales, A Palomin… - … , practice, and policy, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Latinx asylum-seeking families report posttraumatic distress that is 161–204%
higher than in nonimmigrants, with adverse consequences for health and well-being. Recent …

Migration experiences of Central American youth: Developing a new measure

M DeBrabander, A Venta - Psychiatry Research, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the number of children and families migrating from Central America to the
United States (US) has increased exponentially (Rosenblum, 2015). Likely due to this influx …

The meaning of home in male migration: Listening to men's experiences

P Cardinali, JR Ferrari, V Romoli, A Camilleri… - Journal of International …, 2022 - Springer
We assessed the sense of psychological home among adult men (n= 17; M age= 29.7 years
old) who had experienced migration to Italy, focusing on the relationship between …