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Gabriela Livas Stein's research aims to identify individual, familial, and cultural processes that promote positive development and mitigate risks for minoritized youth, with a focus on immigrant Latine populations. Her work is grounded in cultural models of child development and incorporates principles of developmental psychopathology to understand trajectories of mental health and educational outcomes. She employs community-engaged approaches to develop and test prevention and intervention programs that address the mental health needs of minoritized youth and their families. The CAMINOS lab, led by Dr. Stein, addresses basic science questions involving risk and resilience processes in minoritized communities, focusing on the impacts of racial-ethnic discrimination, acculturative stress, and economic stress on youth and family outcomes. It also explores the promotive roles of critical civic engagement, coping mechanisms, racial-ethnic socialization, and familism values. Her translational work emphasizes prevention programming for minoritized families, including racial-ethnic socialization interventions aimed at increasing access to mental health resources in underserved communities.
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences • Austin, TX
Leading research in child development and mental health interventions for minoritized youth.
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