The University of Arizona Press
Chicane Mental Health, Second Edition
Alma, Mente y Corazón
Paperback ($26.95), Ebook ($26.95)
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A new edition of a key text on mental health
Chicane Mental Health offers an intersectional and developmental framework for understanding and addressing the mental health needs of Chicane communities. Drawing on over four decades of clinical and academic experience, Yvette G. Flores addresses the entire lifespan from children and youth to emerging adults, adults, and elders.
Foregrounding cultural humility and an understanding of Chicane strengths and community cultural wealth, the author uses vivid vignettes and community-based insights to address how historical trauma, systemic oppression, and sociocultural dynamics shape mental well-being. Flores highlights the cultural strengths and protective factors that foster resilience.
This new edition expands on Flores’s influential work by integrating Indigenous healing practices, decolonial theory, and liberatory models of care. It challenges dominant Western paradigms and calls for culturally affirming, community-engaged approaches to mental health. With a focus on issues such as depression, substance use, intimate partner violence, and intergenerational trauma, the book provides practical tools for scholars, clinicians, and students committed to social justice and healing in Chicane and Latine communities.
Chicane Mental Health offers an intersectional and developmental framework for understanding and addressing the mental health needs of Chicane communities. Drawing on over four decades of clinical and academic experience, Yvette G. Flores addresses the entire lifespan from children and youth to emerging adults, adults, and elders.
Foregrounding cultural humility and an understanding of Chicane strengths and community cultural wealth, the author uses vivid vignettes and community-based insights to address how historical trauma, systemic oppression, and sociocultural dynamics shape mental well-being. Flores highlights the cultural strengths and protective factors that foster resilience.
This new edition expands on Flores’s influential work by integrating Indigenous healing practices, decolonial theory, and liberatory models of care. It challenges dominant Western paradigms and calls for culturally affirming, community-engaged approaches to mental health. With a focus on issues such as depression, substance use, intimate partner violence, and intergenerational trauma, the book provides practical tools for scholars, clinicians, and students committed to social justice and healing in Chicane and Latine communities.
“Chicane Mental Health is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the mental health challenges faced by Chicane and Latine communities. Through its holistic, systemic, and culturally informed approaches, this book combines Chicane and Latine psychological frameworks and rigorous research with Indigenous healing practices, cultural humility, and psychological insights , offering both scholars and practitioners a deeper understanding of the intersectional factors that shape mental well-being in the Chicane/Latine community. The book also illustrates interventions and models that serve and contribute to the well-being of the Chicane and Latine communities.”—Mónica Torreiro-Casal, co-author of Chicanx and Latinx Psychologies: Decolonial Approaches
“Chicane Mental Health provides an overview of research and real-world applications through vignettes to illustrate how the physical, mental, emotional, and relational challenges Chicane people face are rooted in the historical, political, developmental, and sociocultural contexts in which they are raised. Rather than blaming the individual for their ailments, this book takes into account historical, developmental, and contextual perspectives to understand Chicane mental health and illness. This book is for undergraduate students and practitioners to empower Chicane individuals and communities to heal by balancing alma, mente y corazón at various stages throughout the lifespan.”—Christy Teranishi Martinez, California State University Channel Islands
“This is a great addition to the Latine/Chicane scholarship in mental health. It is a very timely book that will benefit undergraduate and graduate training in health disciplines.”—Alfonso Mercado, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
“Chicane Mental Health provides an overview of research and real-world applications through vignettes to illustrate how the physical, mental, emotional, and relational challenges Chicane people face are rooted in the historical, political, developmental, and sociocultural contexts in which they are raised. Rather than blaming the individual for their ailments, this book takes into account historical, developmental, and contextual perspectives to understand Chicane mental health and illness. This book is for undergraduate students and practitioners to empower Chicane individuals and communities to heal by balancing alma, mente y corazón at various stages throughout the lifespan.”—Christy Teranishi Martinez, California State University Channel Islands
“This is a great addition to the Latine/Chicane scholarship in mental health. It is a very timely book that will benefit undergraduate and graduate training in health disciplines.”—Alfonso Mercado, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
324 Pages
6 x 9 x 0
Published: March 2026Paperback ISBN: 9780816556748
Published: March 2026Ebook ISBN: 9780816556755