American Psychologist
Volume 73, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 781-796

An integrative risk and resilience model for understanding the adaptation of immigrant-origin children and youth (Article)

Suárez-Orozco C.* , Motti-Stefanidi F. , Marks A. , Katsiaficas D.
  • a Human Development and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
  • b Department of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  • c Department of Psychology, Suffolk University, United States
  • d Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

Abstract

We propose an integrative model for the adaptation of immigrant-origin children and youth that combines ecological with risk and resilience frameworks. Immigrant-origin children and youth are now, and will continue to be, a diverse and demographically important segment of all postindustrial nations' populations. Synthesizing evidence across psychological, educational, and sociological disciplines produced since the seminal publication of García Coll et al.'s (1996) model, along with significant events such as a global refugee crisis, a sociopolitical "deportation nation" climate, and heightened xenophobia, we provide a model for understanding the current conditions immigrant-origin children and youth encounter as they develop. This new integrative conceptual model for addressing positive frameworks for adaptation provides a culturally relevant approach for understanding both the risks and resilience of this population. The model was designed to inform practice and future research in the service of immigrant-origin children and youth. © 2018 American Psychological Association.

Author Keywords

Immigrant-origin children and youth Ecological settings Risks and resources Development Adaptation

Index Keywords

Stress, Psychological mental stress coping behavior Emigrants and Immigrants Models, Psychological Adaptation, Psychological psychological model refugee Refugees physiology Resilience, Psychological psychology psychological resilience human Humans migrant Adolescent Child
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052971284&doi=10.1037%2famp0000265&partnerID=40&md5=61b6532125d943bc13a1f40f0835ab37
DOI: 10.1037/amp0000265
ISSN: 0003066X
Cited by: 15
Original Language: English