Depression in Latinos Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gullotta, Thomas P. (Editor), Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: Issues in Children's and Families' Lives, 8
• Subjects: Psychology.; Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Education.; Social work.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Social Work.; Education, general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Depression ranks as a leading mental health problem among Hispanic immigrants and their US-born children. And a wide array of issues—starting with the widespread stereotype of the "illegal immigrant"—makes the Latino experience of this condition differ from that of any other group. Depress...