Ellen L. Vaughan, Melanie J. Robbins, Oscar S. Escobar
{"title":"Mental health, physical health problems, and drinking among Latino older adults.","authors":"Ellen L. Vaughan, Melanie J. Robbins, Oscar S. Escobar","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"32 1","pages":"214-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81514581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alicia Valenzuela-Pérez, M. Couture, Melisa Arias-Valenzuela
Research on mental health of refugee children frequently highlights the limitations of Western approaches to understand the reality of this population. The aim of this study was to explore the psychological needs of 2 refugee children, using a storytelling approach centered on needs. It combined the use of 2 projective tools, a “flower of needs” and a story, to explore the psychological needs of children in a safe and culturally sensitive way. This research sought to (a) identify the needs that children consider to be the most important through the construction of a flower of needs and (b) identify the needs that children address more frequently through the work with the story. For this purpose, a multiple case study design was conducted with 2 Latino/a children recruited from refugee families who had recently arrived in Canada. The children participated in 4 storytelling sessions. Data on the case presentation were collected from a semistructured interview with the parents. Data on the psychological needs exploration were collected from the children’s work with the flower of needs and the story across sessions. The results showed that both children identified physical comfort, connection, and peace as the most important psychological needs using the flower of needs. Connection, peace, and familiarity were the needs more frequently addressed working with the story. The results illustrate the potential of the flower of needs to assess needs and confirm the utility of storytelling to encourage a deep exploration of psychological needs with refugee children.
{"title":"Exploring Refugee Children's Psychological Needs Through Storytelling: A Case Study of Two Latino American Children","authors":"Alicia Valenzuela-Pérez, M. Couture, Melisa Arias-Valenzuela","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000022","url":null,"abstract":"Research on mental health of refugee children frequently highlights the limitations of Western approaches to understand the reality of this population. The aim of this study was to explore the psychological needs of 2 refugee children, using a storytelling approach centered on needs. It combined the use of 2 projective tools, a “flower of needs” and a story, to explore the psychological needs of children in a safe and culturally sensitive way. This research sought to (a) identify the needs that children consider to be the most important through the construction of a flower of needs and (b) identify the needs that children address more frequently through the work with the story. For this purpose, a multiple case study design was conducted with 2 Latino/a children recruited from refugee families who had recently arrived in Canada. The children participated in 4 storytelling sessions. Data on the case presentation were collected from a semistructured interview with the parents. Data on the psychological needs exploration were collected from the children’s work with the flower of needs and the story across sessions. The results showed that both children identified physical comfort, connection, and peace as the most important psychological needs using the flower of needs. Connection, peace, and familiarity were the needs more frequently addressed working with the story. The results illustrate the potential of the flower of needs to assess needs and confirm the utility of storytelling to encourage a deep exploration of psychological needs with refugee children.","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"172-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77681224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feeling typical, looking typical: Physical appearance and ethnic identity among Mexican-origin youth.","authors":"Carlos E. Santos, K. Updegraff","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":"187-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85440194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brandy Piña-Watson, Lizette Ojeda, N. Castellon, Marianela Dornhecker
Abstracto Mediante el uso de la teoria cultural-ecologicatransaccional de resiliencia, el presente estudio buscadeterminar si los factores culturales de familismo y laidentidad etnica tienen un efecto protector y si elestres bicultural tiene un efecto de riesgo en el fun-cionamiento psicologico positivo de 191 adolescen-tes mexico-americanos. Dos regresiones linealesjerarquicas fueron preformadas para determinar elefecto directo y la interaccion de estos factores en lasatisfaccion de vida y autoestima. Los resultadosindican que familismo y la identidad etnica signifi-cativamente tanto positivamente predijeron satisfac-cion de vida y autoestima. Adicionalmente, el estresbicultural significativamente y negativamente predijola satisfaccion de vida y autoestima. Tambien huboun efecto de interaccion significativa entre la identi-dad etnica y estres bicultural con la satisfaccion de lavida; sin embargo, la interaccion era contrario a lahipotesis de que la identidad etnica alta protegeriacontra el efecto de altos niveles de estres bicultural.Los resultados se discuten en el marco cultural-ecologico transaccional.
{"title":"Familismo, Ethnic Identity, and Bicultural Stress as Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents' Positive Psychological Functioning","authors":"Brandy Piña-Watson, Lizette Ojeda, N. Castellon, Marianela Dornhecker","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstracto Mediante el uso de la teoria cultural-ecologicatransaccional de resiliencia, el presente estudio buscadeterminar si los factores culturales de familismo y laidentidad etnica tienen un efecto protector y si elestres bicultural tiene un efecto de riesgo en el fun-cionamiento psicologico positivo de 191 adolescen-tes mexico-americanos. Dos regresiones linealesjerarquicas fueron preformadas para determinar elefecto directo y la interaccion de estos factores en lasatisfaccion de vida y autoestima. Los resultadosindican que familismo y la identidad etnica signifi-cativamente tanto positivamente predijeron satisfac-cion de vida y autoestima. Adicionalmente, el estresbicultural significativamente y negativamente predijola satisfaccion de vida y autoestima. Tambien huboun efecto de interaccion significativa entre la identi-dad etnica y estres bicultural con la satisfaccion de lavida; sin embargo, la interaccion era contrario a lahipotesis de que la identidad etnica alta protegeriacontra el efecto de altos niveles de estres bicultural.Los resultados se discuten en el marco cultural-ecologico transaccional.","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"24 1","pages":"204-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86599965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kimberly M. Rodriguez, Linda G. Castillo, Liliana Gandara
{"title":"The influence of marianismo, ganas, and academic motivation on Latina adolescents’ academic achievement intentions.","authors":"Kimberly M. Rodriguez, Linda G. Castillo, Liliana Gandara","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"120 1","pages":"218-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75543238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Franko, R. Rodgers, Meghan Lovering, Caroline Fernandes, A. Alfieri, Atsushi Matsumoto, Kristin Accomando, H. Thompson-Brenner
{"title":"Time trends in cover images and article content in Latina magazine: Potential implications for body dissatisfaction in Latina women.","authors":"D. Franko, R. Rodgers, Meghan Lovering, Caroline Fernandes, A. Alfieri, Atsushi Matsumoto, Kristin Accomando, H. Thompson-Brenner","doi":"10.1037/LAT0000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/LAT0000007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"33 1","pages":"243-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90808636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of religious/spiritual beliefs and practices among Latino family caregivers of Mexican descent.","authors":"S. Koerner, Y. Shirai, Rosa Pedroza","doi":"10.1037/A0032438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/A0032438","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"95 2 1","pages":"95-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90988887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards an integrated understanding of Latino/a acculturation, depression, and smoking: A gendered analysis.","authors":"Elma I Lorenzo-Blanco, Lilia M. Cortina","doi":"10.1037/A0030951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/A0030951","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"29 1","pages":"3-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74248747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
En este estudio cualitativo, examinamos la religiosidad, el manejo con la adversidad, y facilitadores en la busqueda de diferentes tipos de servicios de salud mental en una muestra de 17 hombres y mujeres Latinos religiosos. El analisis tematico revelo que los participantes tendian a enfrentar problemas con metodos consistentes con sus practicas religiosas. La mayoria de los participantes, especialmente los de mayor edad, identificaron las practicas religiosas/ espirituales organizadas e informales como metodos importantes y preferidos al manejar la adversidad. Ademas, muchos participantes mostraron preferencias hacia los servicios religiosos que eran consistentes con sus creencias religiosas y complementaban sus formas existentes de lidiar con la adversidad. Finalmente, nuestro estudio indica que habia ideas comunes acerca de las circunstancias en las que los participantes buscan los servicios formales de salud mental, incluyendo sentirse comprendido, el experimentar problemas graves de salud mental, y el enfrentar problemas que se piensa son de origen biologico. Es importante destacar dos factores contextuales que surgieron relevantes para entender estas razones, que los participantes que compartieron estas opiniones tienden a ser mas aculturados y a tener mas educacion formal. Los resultados de este estudio ilustran como la religiosidad esta relacionada con el manejo de problemas y con las actitudes hacia los servicios formales de salud mental entre los Latinos religiosos, asi como la importancia del contexto en la comprension de estos procesos. References Alegria, M., Canino, G., Rios, R., Vera, M., Calderon, J., Rusch, D., & Ortega, A. N. (2002). Mental health care for Latinos: Inequalities in use of specialty mental health services among Latinos, African Americans, and non-Latino Whites. Psychiatric Services, 53, 1547–1555. doi:10.1176/appi.ps
{"title":"Religiosity and mental health services: An exploratory study of help seeking among Latinos.","authors":"Oswaldo Moreno, E. Cardemil","doi":"10.1037/A0031376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/A0031376","url":null,"abstract":"En este estudio cualitativo, examinamos la religiosidad, el manejo con la adversidad, y facilitadores en la busqueda de diferentes tipos de servicios de salud mental en una muestra de 17 hombres y mujeres Latinos religiosos. El analisis tematico revelo que los participantes tendian a enfrentar problemas con metodos consistentes con sus practicas religiosas. La mayoria de los participantes, especialmente los de mayor edad, identificaron las practicas religiosas/ espirituales organizadas e informales como metodos importantes y preferidos al manejar la adversidad. Ademas, muchos participantes mostraron preferencias hacia los servicios religiosos que eran consistentes con sus creencias religiosas y complementaban sus formas existentes de lidiar con la adversidad. Finalmente, nuestro estudio indica que habia ideas comunes acerca de las circunstancias en las que los participantes buscan los servicios formales de salud mental, incluyendo sentirse comprendido, el experimentar problemas graves de salud mental, y el enfrentar problemas que se piensa son de origen biologico. Es importante destacar dos factores contextuales que surgieron relevantes para entender estas razones, que los participantes que compartieron estas opiniones tienden a ser mas aculturados y a tener mas educacion formal. Los resultados de este estudio ilustran como la religiosidad esta relacionada con el manejo de problemas y con las actitudes hacia los servicios formales de salud mental entre los Latinos religiosos, asi como la importancia del contexto en la comprension de estos procesos. References Alegria, M., Canino, G., Rios, R., Vera, M., Calderon, J., Rusch, D., & Ortega, A. N. (2002). Mental health care for Latinos: Inequalities in use of specialty mental health services among Latinos, African Americans, and non-Latino Whites. Psychiatric Services, 53, 1547–1555. doi:10.1176/appi.ps","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"26 1","pages":"53-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78990501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interdependent psychological distress between Latinas with breast cancer and their supportive partners.","authors":"C. Segrin, T. Badger","doi":"10.1037/A0030345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/A0030345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94085,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Latina/o psychology","volume":"43 1","pages":"21-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83778246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}