The American College Health Association (ACHA) has declared international students a campus population disproportionately affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States (US; ACHA, 2020). More than a million international students study at US colleges and universities -5.5% of all US college students (IIE, 2020) -and occupy a precarious space at the intersection of immigration policy and global education mobility. As a group of temporary migrants, international students play a unique and complex role and cannot simply be defined in contrast to local students (Maleku et al., 2021). They participate in multiple economic systems as

This study explored the role of mental health and substance abuse problems on the suicidal ideation and suicide attempts of 156 homeless adults. The logistic regression results indicated that homeless adults with anxiety were significantly more likely than those without anxiety to have both suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Also, homeless adults with drug abuse were significantly more likely than those without drug abuse to have suicidal ideation. The study suggests that to reduce the suicide of the homeless, case managers need to screen mental health and substance abuse issues and to provide appropriate treatment services at homeless shelters.

This study sought to examine the association between adolescents' relationship with family and school and depressive symptoms across ethnic/racial groups (White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian), and to test potentially unique explanatory power in youth-family relationship versus youth-school relationship, in a sample of 4,783 adolescents. Depressive symptoms were assessed with a 19-item, modified Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). The results indicated that youth-family relationship and youth-school relationship were significant predictors of adolescent depression. However, the findings of the study indicated that unique contributions by youth-family relationship and youth-school relationship were different by racial/ethnic groups. These findings elucidate protective factors for adolescent depression and highlight the importance of cultural context of each racial/ethnic group. Keywordsfamily relationship; school relationship; depression; cross-racial Adolescence represents a challenging and stressful developmental phase. Apart from rapid physical and biological changes, this period entails significant changes in youngsters' social relations with parents, other family members, and peers. Many studies have documented that there is a significant increase in depressive mood from late childhood through early adolescence, especially in girls (e.g., Angold et al., 2002;Holsen et al., 2000; Twenge & NolenHoeksema, 2002).Links between ecological contexts and depression have been documented for both males and females across a broad age range. Researchers have long noted that adolescent depression was significantly affected by family, school, and community environments (Abrams, Theberge, & Karen, 2005; Matos, Dadds, & Barret, 2006). Some researchers have asserted that family socioeconomic status is likely to have a consistent impact on depression in children through parenting practices, which have been found to be more problematic among parents of lower socioeconomic status (Kim & Ge, 2000;McLoyd, 1998). Many theories of child socialization, including cognitive, social learning, and social interactional perspectives, posit a close association between children's relationship with parents, other family members, and peers and subsequent internalizing and externalizing problems (Coyne, 1976a;1976b;George, Herman, & Ostrander, 2006;McCarty et al., 2005). In healthy families, children learn that they can count on the environment to provide for their emotional security, physical safety and well-being, and they acquire behaviors that will eventually allow them to maintain their own physical and emotional health, independent of caregivers (Resnick et al., 1997). One of the most important indicators of healthy families is good relationships with parents and other family members. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptChild Adolesc Social Work J. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 October 1. Published in final edited form as:Child Adolesc Social Work J. 2010 April 1; 27(2): 115-131. doi:10.1007/s10560-01...

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This is the first study examining predictors of depression among Arizona's Korean immigrant elders not residing in ethnic enclaves. A snowball sample of 120 elders, aged 64 and over, completed the study interview. The proportion of respondents reporting depression was 38.1%, higher than the incidence reported among counterparts in New York City's immigrant ethnic enclaves. Multiple regression analyses (R2=.44) indicate that English language proficiency had the most powerful effect on explaining depression. Discussion centers on why programs aimed at reducing language barriers among socially isolated immigrant elders need to be a first priority in service provision.