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Mexican Immigrants' Resiliency Leads to Better Mental Health
Date: May 9, 2014 at 1:23 pm
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Date: May 9, 2014 at 1:23 pm
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, sta....
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