Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States: Cultural, Environmental, and Structural Factors

Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States: Cultural, Environmental, and Structural Factors provides a unique exploration of the relationship between immigrant mental health, acculturation, and multicultural psychology. It provides an overview of the literature on immigrant parents' experiences and how those experiences are associated with mental health and health risk behaviour among parents and their children, then dives into the topic of acculturation, addressing the geographical and social contexts of immigration, how parents and children navigate the acculturation process, and how different cultural orientations affect behaviour. The second section covers mental health, looking at specific mental health issues among Latinx, Asian, and Middle Eastern immigrants. The book then concludes with a section on psychopathology among immigrant groups that includes insight on epidemiology, internalizing symptoms, alcohol abuse, as well as sleep and other disorders among various immigrant populations. Addresses the complexities of immigration and their effects on mental healthOutlines coping strategies for both cultural and sociocultural mental health stressorsLooks at the prevalence of mental disorders among ethnic minority groups in the USStudies immigrant mental health in distinct social and arrival contextsExamines the impact of group-based discrimination on mental healthProvides effective acculturation research methods INDICE: 1. Linking Acculturation Factors, Family Environments, and Mental Health Outcomes Among Latino Families in Emerging Immigrant Contexts2. Acculturation, Parent-Child Relationships, and Mental Health of Adolescents in Chinese and Mexican Immigrant Families3. Acculturation, Enculturation, and Bicultural Orientations4. Acculturation: Limits and New Directions in Latino Research5. Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Urban, Latino/a/x Children and Adolescents6. Beinig a Latina/o Immigrant Parent in the US7. Addressing Cultural, Environmental, and Structural Factors that Influence the Mental Health of Latino Immigrant Populations8. Health Literacy, Mental Health Literacy, and Mental Health Outcome in Asian American Immigrants9. Mental Health Issues of South Asian Muslims10. Mental Health Considerations for Immigrants of Arab/Middle Eastern Descent11. Immigration and Psychopathology12. Trajectories of Internalizing Symptoms in Young Latino Children13. Migration and Sleep Among Latina/o, Asian, and Black Adult Immigrants

• ISBN: 978-0-12-816117-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 340
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés