Structural Inequities and the Impact of COVID-19 on Latinx Children: Implications for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Practice.

In the United States, the Latinx community (Latinx is a gender-neutral term to describe any person of Latin American descent or heritage) is a heterogeneous population with diverse cultural origins, different migratory experiences, and different socioeconomic and educational realities. The disruptions to daily life and the associated stresses of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have been perhaps most acutely felt by Black and Latinx children from low-income families, including first-generation and undocumented immigrants. Structural inequities, such as the lack of employer-sponsored insurance in the service and retail industries; barriers to applying for public benefits, even for those who qualify; chronic poverty; and the lack of linguistically and culturally effective services have contributed to the disproportionate impact.

Acculturation dimensions and 12-month mood and anxiety disorders across US Latino subgroups in the National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions.

Background: Individual-level measures of acculturation (e.g. age of immigration) have a complex relationship with psychiatric disorders.

Training community-based primary care physicians in the screening and management of mental health disorders among Latino primary care patients.

Objective: To evaluate a quality improvement intervention to improve the screening and management (e.g., referral to psychiatric care) of common mental disorders in small independent Latino primary care practices serving patient populations of predominantly low-income Latino immigrants.

Impact of motivational pharmacotherapy on treatment retention among depressed Latinos.

Compared to non-Latino Whites, U.S. racial/ethnic minority groups show higher non-adherence with outpatient antidepressant therapy, including lower retention, despite adjusting for sociodemographic and insurance covariates.

A 4.5 Mb terminal deletion of chromosome 12p helps further define a psychosis-associated locus.

A 12 year-old girl presented with cognitive disability and dysmorphic features. Chromosome microarray analysis revealed a de novo, approximately 4.5 Mb terminal deletion of the short arm of chromosome 12 at 12p13.