Stress, Resilience, and Culturally Robust Care: Advancing Mental Health Equity for Diverse Communities
Overview
In the United States, racially and ethnically minoritized groups endure pervasive mental health inequities compared with their white counterparts. Numerous factors contribute to these outcomes, including chronic exposure to stressors, a paucity of treatments that attend to cultural differences, and limited access to mental health services. During this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Giovanni Ramos will discuss how his research program responds to these issues. He will present work examining the role of family resilience as a protective factor against discrimination in rural Latinx adolescents. Additionally, the session will describe how Spanish- and English-speaking Latinx caregivers respond to parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), explicitly identifying components of this intervention that lead to outcome disparities and potential data-driven cultural adaptations to reduce them. Finally, he will discuss the role of digital mental health interventions in increasing access to evidence-based treatments for these groups.
Learning objectives
- Describe the role of family resilience as a protective factor against discrimination-related internalizing symptoms in rural Latinx adolescents
- Differentiate between a priori and data-driven cultural adaptations of parent-child interaction therapy for Latinx families
- Identify the affordances of digital interventions to promote mental health equity
Training times
This training is provided at the time(s) and in the format(s) shown below.
| Date | Time | Format | CE Credits | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
August 19, 2026 (Wednesday)
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9:00 am - 10:00 am | Live, online |
1.0 CEs
| 977 spots left |