Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, May 15, 2013
This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social c... more This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social capital among Mexican mothers with unauthorized immigrant status in Arizona. Three focus groups conducted in Arizona explore how mothers' experiences with immigration policies have affected their neighborhood, community, and family ties. Focus group content and interactions revealed that perceived racial profiling was common among mothers and led to fear of family separation. Several described direct experiences with detention and deportation. Although detention and deportation strengthened social ties between mothers and other unauthorized immigrants, these experiences were detrimental to social ties between mothers and members of the mainstream society, including their children's teachers. Finally, immigration policies were perceived to affect parent-child ties negatively, as mothers reported family stress, financial hardship, and decreased parental availability.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2018
Background Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) serve as the health care delivery sites for... more Background Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) serve as the health care delivery sites for more than 25 million Americans across the United States, including Puerto Rico and territories. 1 Federally qualified health centers have been shown to provide higher quality of care at lower cost, per patient, compared with private practitioner offices. 2,3 Despite the prevalence of FQHCs and the high-value care provided, many community health centers have extremely small operating margins 4 and experience clinical vacancies as a regular occurence. 5 This background presents challenges when an FQHC is tasked with quickly responding to the health care needs of people who are victims of a natural disaster. This ACU column focuses on a blueprint created by Fair Haven Community Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut that allows for other health centers rapidly to develop and scale a strategic, flexible, and successful clinical response to a community crisis. Situation: Hurricane Maria Hurricane Maria was a severe, Category 4 hurricane that ravaged the islands in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, on September 20, 2017. Within weeks, survivors were leaving Puerto Rico, a population of 3.4 million people in 2016, and coming to the United States mainland, to areas with strong, pre-existing family and community presence. 6 Far from being over, it is estimated that up to 6% of the Puerto Rican population on the island, or 212,607 persons, will migrate to the United States over the next year as a result of Hurricane Maria, and that by 2019, one in seven residents may have relocated to the mainland. 7 The largest impact of this exodus is likely to affect Florida; Connecticut is likely to have the sixth largest influx of people who were displaced by the hurricane. 7
Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2013
Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain ... more Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain in the United States, many immigrants remain in their U.S. community in spite of the antiimmigration climate surrounding them. This study explores motivations shaping immigrants' intentions to stay in Arizona after passage of Senate Bill 1070 in 2010, one of the most restrictive immigration policies in recent decades. We conducted three focus groups in a large metropolitan city in Arizona with Mexican immigrant parents (N = 25). Themes emerging from the focus groups described multiple and interlocking personal, family and community, and contemporary sociopolitical motivations to stay in their community, and suggest that some important motivating factors have evolved as a result of immigrants' changing environment. Implications for research and social policy reform are discussed.
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2013
Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain ... more Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain in the United States, many immigrants remain in their U.S. community in spite of the antiimmigration climate surrounding them. This study explores motivations shaping immigrants' intentions to stay in Arizona after passage of Senate Bill 1070 in 2010, one of the most restrictive immigration policies in recent decades. We conducted three focus groups in a large metropolitan city in Arizona with Mexican immigrant parents (N = 25). Themes emerging from the focus groups described multiple and interlocking personal, family and community, and contemporary sociopolitical motivations to stay in their community, and suggest that some important motivating factors have evolved as a result of immigrants' changing environment. Implications for research and social policy reform are discussed.
This pilot study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a linguisti... more This pilot study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a linguistically-and culturally-adapted intervention for immigrant Latina mothers with depression and their families. Fortalezas Familiares (Family Strengths) is a community-based, 12-week, multi-family group intervention that aims to increase communication about family processes leading up to and affected by the mother's depression, build child coping and efficacy, enhance parenting competence and skills, and promote cultural and social assets within the family. In terms of feasibility, of 16 families who enrolled and participated in the intervention, 13 families attended more than 90% of meetings and completed the intervention. Post-tests reported positive changes following the intervention, including improved psychological functioning, increased family and marital support, and enhanced family functioning, as reported by mothers and other caregivers. Mothers also reported decreased conduct and hyperactivity problems among their children. Children reported positive changes in their psychological functioning and coping, peer relations, parenting warmth and acceptance, and overall family functioning. Post-intervention focus groups and surveys measuring acceptability revealed families' satisfaction with the intervention and suggested areas of improvement. We discuss similarities and differences in outcomes between the adapted intervention, Fortalezas Familiares, and the original intervention, Keeping Families Strong, and propose future areas of intervention adaptation and development. Keywords maternal depression; Latino families; child and adolescent mental health; family intervention; resilience Maternal depression can have deleterious consequences not only on the wellbeing of the mother with depression, but on the coping resources and functioning of the family (Riley et al., 2008). Negative changes in family communication, nurturance, activities and routines, and cohesion have been documented as both contributing to maternal depression and being exacerbated by it (Valdez, Abegglen, & Hauser, in press). These changes have been associated with long-term negative outcomes in children, including impairments in their mental health, physical health, and social and occupational functioning (Riley et al., 2008; Weissman et al., 2006).
Although it is widely accepted that parental depression is associated with problems with children... more Although it is widely accepted that parental depression is associated with problems with children's socioemotional adjustment, the pathways by which parental depression influences children's adjustment, particularly in low-income Latino children are not fully understood. In our investigation of 1,462 low-income Latino children in the first grade and their Spanish-and English-dominant parents, a factor analysis revealed three main pathways of possible influence of parent involvement in children's social development: emotional involvement and educational involvement at home and at school. The findings from multigroup structural equation modeling revealed that whereas the first two pathways mediated the effect of parental depression on child social competence for Spanish-dominant parents, only emotional involvement explained parental depression effects for English-dominant parents. Parent educational involvement at school did not mediate parental depression effects for either Spanish-or English-dominant Latino parents. Discussion and implications of findings with respect to research, practice, and policy with Latinos follow. Keywords parental depression; parent involvement; social competence; Latino children; elementary school The wide-ranging negative effects of parental depression have been increasingly recognized in the empirical literature [1-5]. Many well-conducted studies over several decades have established a clear link between parental depression and a number of child outcomes, including impacts on child social, emotional, and academic development [2-4, 6-7]. While a relative agreement has been reached on the general impact of parental depression on children, less is known about the mechanisms by which these effects occur, and thus less can be done to intervene on behalf of families and children [4]. Indeed, to buffer the deleterious effects of parental depression on children's adjustment, we need to better identify the proximal factors by which depression has its influence. Researchers have begun this task with particular attention to the effects of depression on parental warmth, monitoring, and discipline [6, 8-9]. However, other dimensions of parenting behavior, such as educational involvement of parents at school and at home, have only recently been examined [10-13]. Moreover, parental depression effects have been understudied in minority populations such as Latinos, the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States [11]. Our
This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social c... more This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social capital among Mexican mothers with unauthorized immigrant status in Arizona. Three focus groups conducted in Arizona explore how mothers’ experiences with immigration policies have affected their neighborhood, community, and family ties. Focus group content and interactions revealed that perceived racial profiling was common among mothers and led to fear of family separation. Several described direct experiences with detention and deportation. Although detention and deportation strengthened social ties between mothers and other unauthorized immigrants, these experiences were detrimental to social ties between mothers and members of the mainstream society, including their children’s teachers. Finally, immigration policies were perceived to affect parent-child ties negatively, as mothers reported family stress, financial hardship, and decreased parental availability.
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, May 15, 2013
This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social c... more This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social capital among Mexican mothers with unauthorized immigrant status in Arizona. Three focus groups conducted in Arizona explore how mothers' experiences with immigration policies have affected their neighborhood, community, and family ties. Focus group content and interactions revealed that perceived racial profiling was common among mothers and led to fear of family separation. Several described direct experiences with detention and deportation. Although detention and deportation strengthened social ties between mothers and other unauthorized immigrants, these experiences were detrimental to social ties between mothers and members of the mainstream society, including their children's teachers. Finally, immigration policies were perceived to affect parent-child ties negatively, as mothers reported family stress, financial hardship, and decreased parental availability.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2018
Background Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) serve as the health care delivery sites for... more Background Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) serve as the health care delivery sites for more than 25 million Americans across the United States, including Puerto Rico and territories. 1 Federally qualified health centers have been shown to provide higher quality of care at lower cost, per patient, compared with private practitioner offices. 2,3 Despite the prevalence of FQHCs and the high-value care provided, many community health centers have extremely small operating margins 4 and experience clinical vacancies as a regular occurence. 5 This background presents challenges when an FQHC is tasked with quickly responding to the health care needs of people who are victims of a natural disaster. This ACU column focuses on a blueprint created by Fair Haven Community Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut that allows for other health centers rapidly to develop and scale a strategic, flexible, and successful clinical response to a community crisis. Situation: Hurricane Maria Hurricane Maria was a severe, Category 4 hurricane that ravaged the islands in the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, on September 20, 2017. Within weeks, survivors were leaving Puerto Rico, a population of 3.4 million people in 2016, and coming to the United States mainland, to areas with strong, pre-existing family and community presence. 6 Far from being over, it is estimated that up to 6% of the Puerto Rican population on the island, or 212,607 persons, will migrate to the United States over the next year as a result of Hurricane Maria, and that by 2019, one in seven residents may have relocated to the mainland. 7 The largest impact of this exodus is likely to affect Florida; Connecticut is likely to have the sixth largest influx of people who were displaced by the hurricane. 7
Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2013
Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain ... more Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain in the United States, many immigrants remain in their U.S. community in spite of the antiimmigration climate surrounding them. This study explores motivations shaping immigrants' intentions to stay in Arizona after passage of Senate Bill 1070 in 2010, one of the most restrictive immigration policies in recent decades. We conducted three focus groups in a large metropolitan city in Arizona with Mexican immigrant parents (N = 25). Themes emerging from the focus groups described multiple and interlocking personal, family and community, and contemporary sociopolitical motivations to stay in their community, and suggest that some important motivating factors have evolved as a result of immigrants' changing environment. Implications for research and social policy reform are discussed.
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2013
Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain ... more Although restrictive immigration policy reduces incentives for unauthorized immigrants to remain in the United States, many immigrants remain in their U.S. community in spite of the antiimmigration climate surrounding them. This study explores motivations shaping immigrants' intentions to stay in Arizona after passage of Senate Bill 1070 in 2010, one of the most restrictive immigration policies in recent decades. We conducted three focus groups in a large metropolitan city in Arizona with Mexican immigrant parents (N = 25). Themes emerging from the focus groups described multiple and interlocking personal, family and community, and contemporary sociopolitical motivations to stay in their community, and suggest that some important motivating factors have evolved as a result of immigrants' changing environment. Implications for research and social policy reform are discussed.
This pilot study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a linguisti... more This pilot study examined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of a linguistically-and culturally-adapted intervention for immigrant Latina mothers with depression and their families. Fortalezas Familiares (Family Strengths) is a community-based, 12-week, multi-family group intervention that aims to increase communication about family processes leading up to and affected by the mother's depression, build child coping and efficacy, enhance parenting competence and skills, and promote cultural and social assets within the family. In terms of feasibility, of 16 families who enrolled and participated in the intervention, 13 families attended more than 90% of meetings and completed the intervention. Post-tests reported positive changes following the intervention, including improved psychological functioning, increased family and marital support, and enhanced family functioning, as reported by mothers and other caregivers. Mothers also reported decreased conduct and hyperactivity problems among their children. Children reported positive changes in their psychological functioning and coping, peer relations, parenting warmth and acceptance, and overall family functioning. Post-intervention focus groups and surveys measuring acceptability revealed families' satisfaction with the intervention and suggested areas of improvement. We discuss similarities and differences in outcomes between the adapted intervention, Fortalezas Familiares, and the original intervention, Keeping Families Strong, and propose future areas of intervention adaptation and development. Keywords maternal depression; Latino families; child and adolescent mental health; family intervention; resilience Maternal depression can have deleterious consequences not only on the wellbeing of the mother with depression, but on the coping resources and functioning of the family (Riley et al., 2008). Negative changes in family communication, nurturance, activities and routines, and cohesion have been documented as both contributing to maternal depression and being exacerbated by it (Valdez, Abegglen, & Hauser, in press). These changes have been associated with long-term negative outcomes in children, including impairments in their mental health, physical health, and social and occupational functioning (Riley et al., 2008; Weissman et al., 2006).
Although it is widely accepted that parental depression is associated with problems with children... more Although it is widely accepted that parental depression is associated with problems with children's socioemotional adjustment, the pathways by which parental depression influences children's adjustment, particularly in low-income Latino children are not fully understood. In our investigation of 1,462 low-income Latino children in the first grade and their Spanish-and English-dominant parents, a factor analysis revealed three main pathways of possible influence of parent involvement in children's social development: emotional involvement and educational involvement at home and at school. The findings from multigroup structural equation modeling revealed that whereas the first two pathways mediated the effect of parental depression on child social competence for Spanish-dominant parents, only emotional involvement explained parental depression effects for English-dominant parents. Parent educational involvement at school did not mediate parental depression effects for either Spanish-or English-dominant Latino parents. Discussion and implications of findings with respect to research, practice, and policy with Latinos follow. Keywords parental depression; parent involvement; social competence; Latino children; elementary school The wide-ranging negative effects of parental depression have been increasingly recognized in the empirical literature [1-5]. Many well-conducted studies over several decades have established a clear link between parental depression and a number of child outcomes, including impacts on child social, emotional, and academic development [2-4, 6-7]. While a relative agreement has been reached on the general impact of parental depression on children, less is known about the mechanisms by which these effects occur, and thus less can be done to intervene on behalf of families and children [4]. Indeed, to buffer the deleterious effects of parental depression on children's adjustment, we need to better identify the proximal factors by which depression has its influence. Researchers have begun this task with particular attention to the effects of depression on parental warmth, monitoring, and discipline [6, 8-9]. However, other dimensions of parenting behavior, such as educational involvement of parents at school and at home, have only recently been examined [10-13]. Moreover, parental depression effects have been understudied in minority populations such as Latinos, the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States [11]. Our
This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social c... more This study explores the consequences of increasingly restrictive immigration policies on social capital among Mexican mothers with unauthorized immigrant status in Arizona. Three focus groups conducted in Arizona explore how mothers’ experiences with immigration policies have affected their neighborhood, community, and family ties. Focus group content and interactions revealed that perceived racial profiling was common among mothers and led to fear of family separation. Several described direct experiences with detention and deportation. Although detention and deportation strengthened social ties between mothers and other unauthorized immigrants, these experiences were detrimental to social ties between mothers and members of the mainstream society, including their children’s teachers. Finally, immigration policies were perceived to affect parent-child ties negatively, as mothers reported family stress, financial hardship, and decreased parental availability.
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