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Learning Objectives:

• Describe significant historical and present-day traumatic events negatively impacting Latine communities
• Identify how colonialization and oppression contribute to trauma in Latine communities
• Explore areas for clinical inquiry when working with Latine immigrant communities that promote healing and empowerment

Speaker:

Oscar F. Rojas Perez is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Oscar has mostly studied Latine psychological well-being, trauma, scale development, and cultural responsiveness. Clinically, Oscar works with patients who have experienced trauma, including racial trauma, and who self-identify as immigrants, refugees, and as people of color. He provides culturally responsive care through the use of Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Citations Used for Presentation:

National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. (2022, January). ¿Quiénes somos y de dónde venimos? A Historical Context to Inform Mental Health Services with Latinx Populations. Universidad Central Del Caribe, Bayamón, PR.

Graftt, N., Rodriguez, K., Costas-Rodriguez, B., & Pineros-Leano, M. (2022). Latinx immigrants and complex layers of trauma: providers’ perspectives. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 10, 291-303.

Valentín‐Cortés, M., Benavides, Q., Bryce, R., Rabinowitz, E., Rion, R., Lopez, W. D., & Fleming, P. J. (2020). Application of the minority stress theory: Understanding the mental health of undocumented Latinx immigrants. American journal of community psychology, 66(3-4), 325-336.

Garcini, L., Chen, N., Cantu, E., Sanchez, N., Ziauddin, K., Maza, V., & Molina, M. (2021). Protective factors to the wellbeing of undocumented Latinx immigrants in the United States: a socioecological approach. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 19, 456-471.