Cultural stress is toxic stress: An expanded cultural stress theory model for understanding mental health risk in Latinx immigrant youth.

Thania GalvanAmanda VentaOswaldo MorenoOmar G GudiñoAlfonso Mercado

Published in: Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology (2024)

An expanded CST model that incorporates the two highlighted frameworks can elucidate additional mechanisms by which cultural stressors influence mental health risk in Latinx immigrant youth. Such mechanistic work holds the key to effectively reducing mental health disparities for Latinx immigrant youth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

mental health
health risk
mental illness
physical activity
stress induced
heavy metals
drinking water
heat stress
adverse drug