Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States - Cultural, Environmental, and Structural Factors

Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States: Cultural, Environmental, and Structural Factors provides a unique exploration of the relationship between immigrant mental health, acculturation and multicultural psychology. The book provides an overview of the literature on immigrant parents' experiences and how those experiences are associated with mental health and health risk behavior among parents and their children. It then dives into the topic of acculturation, addressing the geographical and social contexts of immigration, how parents and children navigate the acculturation process, and how different cultural orientations affect behavior.
The book's second section covers mental health, looking at specific mental health issues among Latino, Asian and Middle Eastern immigrants. It concludes with a section on psychopathology among immigrant groups that includes insights on epidemiology, internalizing symptoms, alcohol abuse, sleep disorders and other disorders among immigrant populations.

• Addresses the complexities of immigration and their effects on mental health
• Outlines coping strategies for both cultural and sociocultural mental health stressors
• Looks at the prevalence of mental disorders among ethnic minority groups in the U.S.
• Studies immigrant mental health in distinct social and arrival contexts
• Examines the impact of group-based discrimination on mental health
• Provides effective acculturation research methods