Robert G. Malgady’s research while affiliated with Touro College and other places

... Bidimensional models recognize the possibility of simultaneous cultural adherence, where individuals can adopt aspects of the dominant culture without relinquishing their cultural origins [29,[33][34][35][36][37][38]. Here, cultural maintenance refers to the extent to which individuals continue to uphold the norms of their culture of origin. ...

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The Impact of Acculturation on Skin Cancer Risk and Protective Behaviors in Hispanic Populations

... Others have been cultural adaptations of standard psychological interventions, whereby certain modifications have been made to the structure, delivery, and/or content of the program to make them more relevant and attractive to Latinas/os (e.g., Fung & Fox, 2014;Miranda, Azocar, Organista, Dwyer, & Areane, 2003;Rosselló, Bernal, & Rivera-Medina, 2008). Still others have been culturally sensitive interventions that have been developed specifically for Latinas/os (e.g., Malgady, Rogler, & Costantino, 1990). Moreover, two recent meta-analyses that analyzed effect sizes separately for different racial/ethnic groups found medium effect sizes for Latina/o samples (Griner & Smith, 2006: d ϭ 0.47;Smith, Rodríguez, & Bernal, 2011: d ϭ 0.56). ...

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Introduction to Special Issue on Evidence-Based Treatments With Latinas/os: Attending to Heterogeneity

... The social desirability factor in diagnosis-making processes (Kirmayer and Young 1999) and the ethnocultural and linguistic biases in mental health evaluations also deserve serious investigation (Malgady et al. 1987). Standards of research and evidence need to give increased credence to qualitative and ethnographic data. ...

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Chapter 6. Beyond the Funhouse Mirrors: Research Agenda on Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis

... En particular, la relación del consumo de drogas con la depresión ya sea como factor antecedente, trastorno coocurrente o efecto derivado del propio uso de sustancias, ha sido ampliamente estudiada y documentada (15,31,60,66,67). Lo mismo se ha llevado a cabo con la asociación del consumo con el estrés y la tensión psicosocial (5,6,60,63). ...

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Psychosocial factors associated with adolescent illicit drug abuse and dependence: Bivariate analysis of a case-control study

... The use of early recollections can help Latino men caught in the destructive loop of using substances to cope (Barua, Dutta, & Kumar, 2016) as they move on the vertical plane striving for superiority from a place of inferiority and provide profound insight. This is a particularly useful tool because Latino/as often use cuentos, metaphorical story-telling, to communicate moral expectations (Costantino & Malgady, 1996). ...

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Hegemonic Masculinity and Racism: The Impact on the Latino Man

... Finally, attempts to address well-founded concerns that stimuli in some measures (e.g. the Thematic Apperception Test) fail to represent the diversity of CYP in schools and community settings have been made. The Tell-Me-A-Story (TEMAS) is one such attempt and was specifically developed for use with minoritised cultural groups (Costantino et al., 2007;Dana, 1993). ...

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Making sense of experience: tools for collaboration with children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs at points of school transition

... Considering the higher functional level of the Vietnamese sample in important motor abilities, the result showed that both samples rated their health status on a comparable level but not for physical one. This might be the result of a culturally mitigated understanding of health, because on a cross-cultural basis, health can not only be seen as the physical status of the body but is interpreted through cultural knowledge (Fry, 2007). One factor for self-rated functional level and health status in this context, is the degree to which a society provides technological assisting devices like pacemakers, glasses or walkers and the state of development in medicine, for example in orthopaedic surgery, to compensate functional loss. ...

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An Assessment of the Self-Rated General Health of Vietnam and German Elderly

... indiscriminately uses diagnostic measures across ethnic-groups (Knight & Hill, 1998;Westermeyer, 1987). Such measures often fail to capture uniqueness in African-American children's problem presentation, which is often driven by sociocultural customs and socialization practices (Malgady & Rogler, 1988). ...

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Do Problems of Clinic-Referred African-American Children Overlap with the Child Behavior Checklist?

... periods. The absence of diversity and antiquated nature of the cards is regularly acknowledged as a limitation of the TAT because it severely lacks cultural generalizability (e.g., Adams et al., 2021;Costantino & Malgady, 1996;Dana, 1999;Stricker & Lally, 2015). Thus, while neither race nor gender correlated with any of our outcome variables, it is important to keep in mind that cultural variables may have still impacted the content of participants' stories. ...

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Moving Toward an Online Thematic Apperception Test (TAT): The Impact of Administration Modifications on Narrative Length and Story Richness

... Hence, there is a real need for new screening tools that take into consideration and deal with all existing methodological limitations. It is especially important to address the many conceptual issues related to the universality of cognitive systems [2], the relationship between culture and cognition [3], the importance of demographic specificities of target populations [4], and cultural bias in psychological assessments [5]. ...

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The Development of the Dementia Screening Battery-100: Instrument Presentation, Reliability, and Construct Validity