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Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2008;300(7):780-781.

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Washington, DC—In addition to facing the usual developmental tasks of acquiring a sense of self and becoming independent, children of immigrants to the United States also must cope with the challenges of being a member of an ethnic or racial minority and with a host of other stresses, according to speakers at a symposium on immigrant children's mental health at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) here in May. Given the difficulties that immigrant families often face, it is perhaps not surprising that some of these children have a heightened risk for depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and other mental health problems.

In 2006, nearly 38 million US residents—about 13% of the total population—were foreign born. According to the US Census Bureau, about 12 million persons younger than 18 years had foreign-born parents, and more than half of these children were born in this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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