This seminar will focus on the following topics:
- Background research
- Ethnicity identity and norms
- Minority stress/coping
- Parental influences and familismo
- Importance of timing
- Recent studies
- Examining parental permissiveness toward drinking and perceived ethnic discrimination as risk factors for drinking outcomes among Latinx college students (Waldron et al., 2021)
- Long-term impact of familismo and ethnic identity on Latinx college student drinking and high-risk consequences (Waldron et al., 2022)
- Implications for culturally sensitive interventions
- How do we incorporate these findings into existing programs like BASICS?
- What might a parent-based intervention look like for Latino families?
- Future directions
About the presenter
Katja Waldron received her M.S. in biobehavioral health at Penn State and B.S. in psychology from the University of Washington. She is currently funded on an F31 NIAAA predoctoral fellowship for her dissertation research examining daily predictors of Latinx college student drinking. Katja is concurrently enrolled in the Biobehavioral Health Ph.D. program and Counselor Education M.Ed. program at Penn State. Her research and clinical work focus on the prevention of heavy drinking and its consequences (e.g., assaults, blackouts, drunk driving) among adolescents and young adults of diverse backgrounds.
