Chicana and Chicano Mental Health offers a model to understand and to address the mental health challenges and service disparities affecting Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans/Chicanos. Yvette G. Flores, who has more than thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist, provides in-depth analysis of the major mental health challenges facing these groups: depression; anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder; substance abuse; and intimate partner violence. Using a life-cycle perspective that incorporates indigenous health beliefs, Flores examines the mental health issues affecting children and adolescents, adult men and women, and elderly Mexican Americans.

Introduction -- The mental health of Chicana and Chicano children -- Adolescent mental health -- Gender and mental health : depression, anxiety, and substance abuse among Chicanas -- Los hombres : the negotiation of grief and pain -- Sexualities -- Mental health and aging : finding balance en la tercera edad -- Conclusion : Chicana/o mental health in the twenty-first century.