Growing Up Latino in the United States: Exploring Development in Culture and Context

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The first resource to comprehensively present and integrate the interdisciplinary social and
psychological research on the diversity and complexity of Latinx child, adolescent, and young
adult social and psychological development, with implications for practice in social work,
counseling, education, advocacy, and policy.

Reviews

I really appreciate the authors' integrative approach to the study and understanding of
Latinx children and adolescents growing up in the U.S. In here, the authors review
central developmental concepts (i.e., self-concept, peer relations, parenting practices)
by centering the Latinx experience from a normative approach, which is a breath of
fresh air in the current developmental literature. The proposal moves between the
micro and the macro context and factors that contribute to the multiple developmental
trajectories that vary based on children's and adolescents' intersectional identities.

-- Lucia Alcala, California State University at Fullerton

The overall approach is sound. The text moves from setting up theory on development
and research approaches to understanding development. Then, moves from the outside
(macro-level) to the inside (micro-level) context that encircle a child's development.

-- Krista Perreira, University of North Carolina

The approach is innovative, holistic, and comprehensive. The authors have identified a
gap in the literature and a real need to have culturally relevant textbooks in this field
that focus on Latinx development through a transdisciplinary framework and a cultural
lens to examine the intersection of ethnicity, race, and culture on development.

-- Amanda Quintero, California State University at Channel Islands

Author Bio

Sandra Machida is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at State University, Chico (CSUC).
Leesa V. Huang is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the coordinator of the Pupil Personnel Services-School Psychology Program at California State University, Chico, where she has taught both undergraduate and graduate students for nearly fifteen years.
Terry Miller-Herringer earned her Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside, and has taught for more than 30 years in the Psychology Department at California State University, Chico.
Marlene Zepeda is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Child and Family Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.