Acculturating Systems of Care to Ensure Healthy Futures for Latine Migrant Youth

Migration across the Americas is an ever-changing process with current trends including increased migration into the United States of Latine youth. Experiences before, during, and after migration can increase the risk of psychiatric illness, including discriminatory and exclusionary experiences when accessing care. Acculturation typically focuses on the process that the immigrant group experiences when coming into contact with a host culture. Members of the host culture and systems of care can take intentional steps to acculturate themselves in an integrative manner in an effort to reduce host –immigrant friction and better coordinate care across systems.
Source: Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research