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Gabriela L. Stein

Dr. Stein's research revolves around three themes: understanding the development of depressive symptoms in Latino youth, examining ethnic differences that impact treatment seeking and treatment engagement, and the development of culturally sensitive prevention and intervention programs.

There are 7 included publications by Gabriela L. Stein :

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Becoming an American parent: Overcoming challenges and finding strengths in a new immigrant Latino community 2006 967 One in five children living in the United States is an immigrant or a child of an immigrant, and 62% of these children are Latino. Through qualitative methods, this study identifies ways that Latino immigrant parents with adolescent children cope wit...
Commands, Competence, and Cariño : Maternal Socialization Practices in Mexican American Families 2010 665 Early research on the socialization of Latino children has posited that mothers exercise authoritarian practices, compared with lateral reasoning (authoritative) strategies emphasized by Anglo mothers. This work aimed to categorize fixed types of par...
Cultural stressors and the hopelessness model of depressive symptoms in Latino adolescents. 2012 1 Depressive symptoms in Latino youth have been related to both culturally-universal and culturally-based stressors. However, few studies have examined the unique contributions of culturally-based stressors above and beyond other types of stressors. Mo...
Ethnic Differences Among Adolescents Beginning Treatment for Depression 2010 1083 This study examines ethnic/racial differences at the start of treatment among participants in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). African American and Latino youth were compared to Caucasian youth on symptom presentation and c...
Ethnic differences among substance using adolescents in a treatment dissemination project. 2012 1 Despite evidence of ethnic differences in substance use patterns among adolescents in community samples, clinical studies have not found ethnic differences in posttreatment outcomes. Prior clinical studies have been limited by small samples, focus on...
Gendered academic adjustment among Asian American adolescents in an emerging immigrant community. 2012 1 Research on the academic adjustment of immigrant adolescents has been predominately conducted in large cities among established migration areas. To broaden the field’s restricted focus, data from 172 (58% female) Asian American adolescents who reside...
An internalizing pathway to alcohol and substance use disorders. 2011 2 Research emanating from the field of developmental science indicates that initial risk factors for substance use disorder can be evident in early childhood. One dominant developmental pathway connecting these initial risk factors with subsequent subs...