ReviewDevelopmental psychobiology2021
Migration-related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy.
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- Let's Grow: Toward Culturally Sensitive Pubertal Research Practices with Migrant Adolescents.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
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- Beyond Individual Coping: The Role of Social Capital in Community-Based Mental Health Support for Displaced Somali Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- The experience of fear and psychological distress among migrants in Spain.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Trauma in the American asylum process: Experiences of immigrant families under the migrant protection protocols.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2024Article
- Victimization, polyvictimization, and depression symptoms among immigrants and native children and youth in Chile.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Upholding the Human Rights and Well-Being of Refugee Children Through Effective Clinical Care.Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Leveraging the developmental neuroscience of caregiving to promote resilience among youth exposed to adversity.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- A scoping review of trauma informed approaches in acute, crisis, emergency, and residential mental health care.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Association of sociocultural stressors with bipolar disorder onset in Puerto Rican youth growing up as members of a minoritized ethnic group: results from the Boricua Youth Longitudinal Study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Persistence of Emotional Distress in Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adolescents Primarily From the Northern Triangle of Central America.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Neurodevelopmental mechanisms linking early experiences and mental health: Translating science to promote well-being among youth.The American psychologist · 2022Article
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Abstract
Children make up over half of the world's migrants and refugees and face a multitude of traumatic experiences prior to, during, and following migration. Here, we focus on migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States and review trauma related to migration, as well as its implications for the mental health of migrant and refugee children. We then draw upon the early adversity literature to highlight potential behavioral and neurobiological sequalae of migration-related trauma exposure, focusing on attachment, emotion regulation, and fear learning and extinction as transdiagnostic mechanisms underlying the development of internalizing and externalizing symptomatology following early-life adversity. This review underscores the need for interdisciplinary efforts to both mitigate the effects of trauma faced by migrant and refugee youth emigrating from Mexico and Central America and, of primary importance, to prevent child exposure to trauma in the context of migration. Thus, we conclude by outlining policy recommendations aimed at improving the mental health of migrant and refugee youth.
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