Acculturative Stress Causes Depression, Suicide In Latino Youth

An epidemiology analysis finds that acculturative stress, which is a term created to highlight that immigrants straddling two different cultures have greater stress than natives, is the reason Latino youth in Indiana have higher suicide and depression rates than white counterparts. Young people are forced to be one thing in their homes and then also part of the larger outside culture and the conflict between Latino teens and their parents regarding what they do and how they should act at, for example, school versus home, adds to the pressure of teenage years. read more

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