Mental Health Landscape of Asian Immigrant Youth and Families in the United States - (2025)

This presentation will explore the history and barriers to mental health service access for Asian immigrant youth and their families. The webinar will include a discussion of the interplay of stressors of acculturation, generational trauma, stereotypes, and pandemic-related stigma and violence.

Suggested Domain: Assessment; DEI

Credits: 1.5 PDU

Learning Objective(s):

1. Discuss historical perceptions, immigration patterns, and perceptions of Asian immigrants in the United States

2. Discuss some of the challenges of immigrant populations such as acculturative stressors and barriers to mental health access

3. Recognize ways that child life specialists can continue to utilize current research to provide strengths-based psychosocial interventions to immigrant children and their families in various settings

4. Understand how child life specialists need to expand their knowledge in the domain of DEI for an ever-growing and important immigrant population.

Please note: All webinar content and its certificate will expire on May 14, 2028, regardless of when it is purchased, accessed, or completed. At that point, contents will no longer be available in any form, including as an archive or as a PDU certificate. It is the responsibility of the learner to complete the contents and download and save the certificate for their records prior to May 14, 2028.