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Mexican Immigrants' Resiliency Leads to Better Mental Health

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. border health
  2. migration
  3. international development
  4. Social work
  5. Community Engaged Scholarship
  6. Other
  7. Cross-cutting: U.S. –Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues
  8. neuroscience
  9. in vivo intracerebral microdialysis
  10. drug addiction
  11. movement disorder
  12. dopamine
  13. behavioral and neural plasticity
  14. Health & Biomedical Sciences and Engineering

Featured Researcher(s):

Lusk, Mark
College: Health Sciences
Department: Social Work
Castañeda, Eddie
College: Liberal Arts
Department: Psychology

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  1. Health and Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
  2. Cross-cutting: U.S.-Mexico and Latin America: Social and Behavioral Issues
Mexican Immigrants' Resiliency Leads to Better Mental Health
Date: 30 January 2014 22:08



Research shows that Mexican immigrants in the United States are less likely to suffer from depression and other mental health disorders than people who were born in this country, said Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally renowned expert on mental health in ethnic populations.

Aguilar-Gaxiola was the keynote speaker at the Centennial Symposium on Resiliency and Hispanic Mental Health at UTEP on Jan. 28. Nearly 200 mental health professionals, social workers and UTEP faculty, staff and students attended the conference in UTEP’s Tomás Rivera Conference Center, where mental health experts discussed how Hispanics use resiliency to cope with life’s challenges and stressful situations.


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