This article reports on the outcome of an expert consensus meeting in August 2005
sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, which assembled 15 senior …

Abstract We used the World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic
Interview to determine the prevalence, comorbidity, and correlates of lifetime and 12-month …

Fotonovelas—small booklets that portray a dramatic story using photographs and captions—
represent a powerful health education tool for low-literacy and ethnic minority audiences …

Using data on 2,535 children included in the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey,
we investigate how the legal status of immigrant parents shapes their children's behavioral …

In this study, we examined help-seeking pathways and help-receiving experiences among
Latinos, a population that has been shown to underutilize mental health services. We used …

Objective: This study investigated racial and ethnic disparities in psy-chotherapy use and
expenditures in the United States and identified important factors associated with these …

US Latinos are almost twice as likely as Whites to experience depression in a given year,
and to date, there is a gap in understanding how to effectively address depression in this …

The present study examined politeness phenomenon in Spanish discourse produced
between a therapist and a client during psychotherapeutic motivational interviews as …

Background Hispanics, particularly those with limited English proficiency, are
underrepresented in psychiatric clinical research studies. We developed a bilingual and …

This study addressed whether psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment of
depressed HIV+ women met standards defined in the best practice literature, and tested …