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Review
. 2022 Oct;31(4):765-778.
doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2022.05.005.

Beyond Children's Mental Health: Cultural Considerations to Foster Latino Child and Family Mental Health

Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy  1 , Jessica F Sandoval  2 , Amalia Londoño Tobón  3 , Lisa R Fortuna  4
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Review

Beyond Children's Mental Health: Cultural Considerations to Foster Latino Child and Family Mental Health

Barbara Robles-Ramamurthy et al. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Clinicians trained to assess and treat child psychopathology are facing an increasing need to expand their clinical expertise outside of traditional frameworks, which have historically focused largely on the child or the child-mother dyad. Clinicians treating children also need to be prepared to assess and address the systems of care that affect a child's mental health, starting with their family. There is a scarcity of Latino mental health providers and limited clinical opportunities or settings that serve this population by incorporating a developmental, cultural, and sociopolitical framework into high quality care of the whole family.

Keywords: Developmental psychology; Diversity; Latino children’s mental health; Latino family mental health; Latinx mental health; Mental health equity; Racism; Structural competence.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure Drs B. Robles-Ramamurthy, J. Sandoval and L. Fortuna have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Dr A. Londoño Tobón is supported by the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health. The contents and views in this article are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent the views of the National Institutes of Health.

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