A5006883256- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
University of New Mexico
2020-2024
Highlights Multilevel strengths‐based intervention decreases refugee distress and improves protective factors. Holistic focus on psychological, material, social, educational, cultural needs is effective. High recruitment/retention rates support importance of non‐stigmatizing universal interventions. Refugee Well‐being Project (RWP) reaches refugees unlikely to access formal mental health services. RWP circumvents typical barriers services (stigma, trust, linguistic/cultural appropriateness).
Culturally and contextually valid measurement of psychological distress is critical, given the increasing numbers forcibly displaced people transnational migration. This study replicates an inductive process that elicited culturally specific expressions, understandings, idioms among Afghans to develop measures for Great Lakes Africans Iraqis expands this methodology include a focus on contexts refugees resettled in United States. To create measures, we adapted Miller et al.'s (2006) model
The NIMH-funded Multilevel Community-Based Mental Health Intervention to Address Structural Inequities and Adverse Disparate Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic on Latinx Immigrants African Refugees study aims advance the science multilevel interventions reduce disparate, adverse mental health, behavioral, socioeconomic consequences pandemic that are a result complex interactions between underlying structural inequities barriers health care. tests three nested levels intervention: 1) an...
Abstract Stress associated with resource deprivation is an active social determinant of mental health. However, mixed findings around the strength this association and its persistence over time obscure optimal interventions to improve health in forcibly displaced populations. A reciprocal model was analyzed between access measures depression, anxiety posttraumatic stress (PTSD) symptoms at three different assessments conducted 6 months apart (Time [T] 1, T2, T3). Participants included...
Abstract Attention to cultural variability in mental health symptoms could inform intervention targets; however, this is currently a neglected area of study. This study examined whether the associations between common disorder (CMD) and predictors CMDs varied cross‐culturally. Participants were 290 refugees from three geocultural regions (Afghanistan, Great Lakes region Africa, Iraq Syria) who recently resettled United States completed assessments CMD predictors. Multilevel generalized...