TOPIC: Immigrant Students and Mental Health

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Article

• Transition Support for Immigrant Students. Cardenas, J., Taylor, L., Adelman, H.S. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 21,203-210.

Center Briefs

• Diversity Competence for Psychological Practitioners: Eliminating Disparities in Psychological Practices

Introductory Packets

• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning

Newsletters

• Featured Newsletter article (Fall, '97), Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support.

Technical Aid Packets

• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Education
• Bilingual Education
• Educating California's Immigrant Children: An Overview of Bilingual Education (pdf)
• Education of Migrant Children in the United States
• Enhancing the Communication Skills of Newly-Arrived Asian-American Students

General Information
• Four Commentaries: Looking to the Future
• Immigrant and Refugee Children
• Pathways to Tolerance: Student Diversity
• The Application Process for TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid and SCHIP
• Strategies for Success: Engaging Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools

Mental Health & Health Care
• From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families
• Mental health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity - A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• Mental Health Issues of Resettled Refugees
• New Insights on how Mental Health is Influenced by Culture and Immigration Status
• A Look at Immigrant Youth: Prospects and Promising Practices (2005)
• APA Resolution on Immigrant Children, Youth and Families
• Screening and Assessing Immigrant and Refugee Youth in School-Based Mental Health Programs

Policy
• Advocacy Notes: Newsletter of the Children's Aid Society
• Federal Policy for Immigrant Children: Room for Common Ground?(pdf)
• In-State Tuition and Unauthorized Immigrant Students
• Immigrants' Access to Healthcare
• Immigrants' In-State Tuition
• Immigrant Children and Their Families: Issues for Research and Policy (pdf)
• "Obituary: The Bilingual Ed Act, 1968-2002" by James Crawford

• Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity
• Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)
• Immigrant and Refugee Children
• National Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
• National Center for Cultural Competence
• National Immigration Forum
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• RAND: Emergency Immigrant Education Program: Mental Health Intervention Project
• Refugee Mental Health Program

• Adolescent culture brokering and family functioning: a study of families from Vietnam. Trickett, E.J., & Jones, C.J. (2007). Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 13, 143-150.
• A bimensional model of acculturation for examining differences in family functioning and behavior problems in Hispanic immigrant adolescents. Szapocznik, J. (2007). Journal of Early Adolescence, 27, 405-430.
• Classroom drama therapy program for immigrant and refugee adolescents: a pilot study. Rousseau, C. et al., (2007). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12, 451-465.
• Counseling approaches for immigrant children: Facilitating the acculturative process. Kopala, Mary; Esquivel, Giselle; Baptiste, Lucille. School Counselor. 1994 May. 41 (5): p. 352-359.
• Counseling immigrant children in the schools. Esquivel, Giselle B.; Keitel, Merle A. Elementary School Guidance & Counseling. 1990 Feb. 24 (3): p. 213-221.
• Developmental dilemmas of young children of immigrant parents. Koplow, Lesley; Messinger, Eli. Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal. 1990 Apr. 7 (2): p. 121-134.
• Growing up American: The challenge confronting immigrant children and children of immigrants. Zhou, Min. Annual Review of Sociology. 1997. 23 p. 63-95.
• Immigrant and refugee children and families: Supporting a new road traveled.  Cole, Ester. In: Michael Gerald Luther, Ed; Ester Cole, Ed; et al. Dynamic assessment for instruction:  From theory to application. Captus Press, Inc.: North York, ON, Canada, 1996. p. 35-42 of vii, 369pp.
• Immigrant and refugee children: Challenges and opportunities for education and mental health services. Cole, Ester. Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 1998. 14 (1): p. 36-50.
• Immigrant children in the United States.  Castex, Graciela M. In: Norma Kolko Phillips, Ed; Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner, Ed; et al. Children in the urban environment:  Linking social policy and clinical practice. Charles C Thomas, Publisher: Springfield, IL, USA, 1997. p. 43-60 of xiv, 243pp.
• Parental self-efficacy and social support as predictors of parenting practices and children's socioemotional adjustment in Mexican immigrant families. Izzo, Charles; Weiss, Laura; Shanahan, Timothy; Rodriguez-Brown, Flora. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community. The Haworth Press Inc: US, 2000. 20 (1-2): p. 197-213.
• Promoting cultural competence in children's mental health services. Arroyo, William. Immigrant children and families.  In: Mario Hernandez, Ed; Mareasa R. Isaacs, Ed; et al. Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co: Baltimore, MD, USA, 1998. p. 251-268 of xxvi, 370pp. Series title: Systems of care for children's mental health.
• Psychological adjustment and school performance in immigrant children. McLatchie, Ruth. Journal of Psychological Practice. 1997 Spr. 3 (2): p. 34-46.
• Psychosocial considerations in the mental health of immigrant and refugee children. Hicks, Ruthann; Lalonde, Richard N.; Pepler, Debra. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. 1993 Fal. 12 (2): p. 71-87.
• Psychosocial stress, coping, and development of Hispanic immigrant children.  Laosa, Luis M. In: Felicisima C. Serafica, Ed; Andrew I. Schwebel, Ed; et al. Mental health of ethnic minorities. Praeger Publishers: New York, NY, USA, 1990. p. 38-65 of xiii, 344pp.
• Refugees' responses to mental health screening. Ovitt, N., Larrison, C.R., & Nackerud, L. (2007). International Social Work, 46, 235-250.
• Self- and parent assessment of mental health: Disagreement on externalizing and internalizing behaviour in young refugees from the Middle East. Montgomery, E. (2008). Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 13, 49-63.
• The adjustment of children from immigrant families. Fuligni, Andrew J. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 1998 Aug. 7 (4): p. 99-103.
• The health status and risk behaviors of adolescents in immigrant families.  Harris, K. (1999).  In Hernandez, D. (Ed.), Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance, National Academy Press: Washington D.C.
• The mental health and adjustment of immigrant and refugee children. Guarnaccia, Peter J.; Lopez, Steven. Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 1998 Jul. 7 (3): p. 537-553.
• The school adjustment of South Asian immigrant children in the United States. Bhattacharya, Gauri. Adolescence. 2000 Spr. 35 (137): p. 77-85.

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