Examines factors that help adolescents—especially from minoritized backgrounds—thrive. Uses resilience and strengths-based approaches (daily diary, interviews, secondary data) to study contextual risks (discrimination, community violence, family stress) and incorporates biological markers (e.g., cortisol) and physiology (e.g., sleep). Also studies Black and Latina women's experiences with infertility.
Publications
Mora, A.S., Muñoz-Velázquez, J., Alers-Rojas, F., Ceballo, R., & Cranford, J. (2023). Understanding Latino adolescents' experiences with discrimination: An intersectional approach. Journal of Latinx Psychology, 11(4), 306–321.https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000234
Ceballo, R., Alers-Rojas, F., Mora, A.S., & Cranford, J. A. (2022). Exposure to community violence: Toward a more expansive definition and approach to research. Child Development Perspectives, 16(2), 96–102.https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12448
Ceballo, R., Alers-Rojas, F., Montoro, J. P., & Mora, A.S.. (2020). Contextual stressors and the role of religion and spirituality in the mental health of Latino/a immigrant parents and youth. Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States, 135–155
