Workshop Description: This session introduces a transformative framework for understanding suicidality through the lenses of racial justice and cultural humility. Moving beyond traditional risk-based and diagnostic models, it centers cultural context and lived experience by offering a focused look at how acculturation, familism, colorism, and gender norms shape mental health and suicide risk.
Learning Objectives: ● Described the four acculturation strategies and how each one can influence suicidality among immigrant communities in the U.S. ● Analyzed how colorism, racial microaggressions, and internalized oppression contribute to suicidal thoughts and experiences in racialized communities. ● Outlined how gendered cultural norms like marianismo and machismo, and family obligations tied to familismo, can both protect against and contribute to suicidality across cultures. ● Evaluated the Dialogue Across Differences™ (DAD) framework to make meaning of suicidality through a racial justice and cultural humility lens.
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