Germán A Cadenas

Dados Biográficos

ID141029
NOMEGermán A Cadenas
PRENOMESGermán A
SOBRENOMECadenas
ASSINATURACADENAS G A
AFILIAÇÕESLehigh University
ORCID0000-0001-6661-496X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS33
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES57
TOTAL COMO AUTOR33
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2016
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H5

  • Reflections on Career and Wellbeing From Systemically Impacted Immigrant Artists

    Open AccessGermán A Cadenas, Silvia Rodriguez Vega et al.ARTICLEJournal of Career Assessment2026

    This community-based project centered the voices of fifteen publicly identified immigrant artists to better understand how to promote their career development and wellbeing. The project was guided by the Collaborative Immigration Advocacy framework for action-oriented collaborations and the framework of community-engaged vocational psychology research. Written reflections/interviews were coded and analyzed using Consensual Qualitative Research - …

  • Sanctuary mindset

    Germán A CadenasARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2026

    Global conditions continue to push individuals to migrate to meet basic human needs and live peacefully. The numbers of global immigrants peaked at 281 million in 2024. In the United States, current federal and state policies generally reflect anti-immigrant biases, inducing distress among individuals and families who have likely already experienced trauma and adversities. While sanctuary policies were implemented in certain cities and municipali…

  • A Tale of Two Childhoods

    Open AccessCynthia M Navarro Flores, Alejandro L Vázquez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2026Referências: 39

  • The intersection of immigration-related racism and xenophobia shaping undocumented immigrants’ experiences with liminality

    Oswaldo Moreno, Camila Tirado et al.ARTICLEQualitative Psychology2025

  • Endorsing family interdependence rather than “emancipation”

    F L Carlos Chavez, Aldo M Barrita et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2025

  • Antiracist activism for immigrant rights and healthy coping

    Open AccessGermán A Cadenas, Melanie M Domenech Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…2025Citada por: 1Referências: 41

    Racist and xenophobic policies in the United States (e.g., family separations and lack of access to protected immigration statuses for undocumented immigrants) have historically excluded immigrants of color from accessing full civil rights, thus contributing to widening racial inequities in the US. Racism and xenophobia intersected with other systems of oppression during the COVID‐19 pandemic, exposing immigrants of color to detrimental health ef…

  • Practice guidelines for Alive comentoring

    Germán A Cadenas, Raquel Sosa et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2025

    Western psychology has historically been a field that has excluded from its training pathways individuals who are members of the racial and ethnic global majority (e.g., Indigenous, African, Latinx, Asian). While progress has been made, 83% of practicing psychologists and 75% of doctoral trainees are White and not representative of global diversity. We describe a set of practice guidelines for mentoring within psychology training that was codevel…

  • A framework of community-engaged vocational research methodologies from liberatory perspectives

    Open AccessYunkyoung Loh Garrison, Germán A Cadenas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Vocational Behavior2024

  • Critical consciousness among undocumented immigrant college students

    Germán A Cadenas, Raquel Sosa et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2024Citada por: 1

    This research expands theory by articulating the adaptive ways undocumented students respond to the conditions that cause cultural stress and psychological distress. This aligns with a growing literature documenting the psychology of undocumented immigrants' activism and advocacy. Findings may inform interventions by higher education institutional agents and research to offset cultural stress and psychological distress. (PsycInfo Database Record …

  • An exploratory study of healing circles as a strategy to facilitate resilience in an undocumented community

    Open AccessF Ruiz Morales, José Manuel González Vera et al.ARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2023

    Within the United States (U.S.), the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted critical inequalities affecting undocumented communities and resulting in particularly heightened stress for members of these communities. In addition to the stress associated to COVID-19, immigrants in the U.S. were more than ever subjected to a hostile anti-immigrant climate under Trump's administration. Given this compounded stress, the impact of the pandemic on mental health i…

  • A decolonial and liberation lens to social justice research

    Open AccessLuz M Garcini, Aldo M Barrita et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist2023

    In the face of harmful disparities and inequities, it is crucial for researchers to critically reflect on methodologies and research practices that can dismantle systems of oppression, accommodate pluralistic realities, and facilitate opportunities for all communities to thrive. Historically, knowledge production for the sciences has followed a colonial and colonizing approach that continues to silence and decontextualize the lived experiences of…

  • Social justice activism and critical agency among undocumented students

    Germán A Cadenas, Éric Garcia et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2023Citada por: 1

  • Alcohol misuse during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Lucas Torres, Alison Cerezo et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2023Citada por: 1

    Overall, the present study provides an important contribution to the extant research literature by demonstrating the importance of considering syndemic effects of COVID-19 when addressing health behaviors for Latinx women. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)

  • The citizenship shield

    Open AccessGermán A Cadenas, Alison Cerezo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology2023Citada por: 5Referências: 50

    A framework termed “the citizenship shield” is introduced to conceptualize how legal protections buffer against negative health outcomes among Latinx immigrants in the United States. In this study, we tested the citizenship shield framework in the context of the disproportionate impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on Latinx immigrants. We investigated the connection between immigration status, discrimination, food insecurity, and negative health outc…

  • A model of collaborative immigration advocacy to prevent policy-based trauma and harm

    Germán A Cadenas, Mary Beth Morrissey et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2022

    This model may be used as the basis for ongoing humane immigration policy activism that centers the voices of community activists, and that pushes psychologists and allied professionals to use their positionality to support community-based efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Anti-immigration policy and mental health

    Open AccessLuz M Garcini, Melanie M Domenech Rodríguez et al.ARTICLEPsychological Trauma Theory…2022

    The future of DACA recipients is uncertain, which can be trauma inducing. The field of psychology needs to make space for this kind of experience as potentially traumatic. Advocacy efforts to shift immigration policies can be strengthened to alter the negative effects of the potential termination of DACA on those affected by it. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Immigration status, mental health, and intent to persist among immigrant college students

    Oswaldo Moreno, Raquel Sosa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2022Citada por: 1

  • Covid-19 stressors, ethnic discrimination, Covid-19 fears, and mental health among Latinx college students

    D Sanchez, F L Carlos Chavez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2022Citada por: 1

  • Expanding Theories of Sociopolitical Development

    Open AccessPatricia Garcia, Germán A Cadenas et al.ARTICLETechTrends2022Citada por: 1Referências: 4

  • Immigrant students’ mental health and intent to persist in college

    Germán A Cadenas, H Kenny Nienhusser et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2022Citada por: 6

    Findings are discussed in relation to federal and campus policies to support immigrant students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved

  • Detrimental Effects of Color-Blind Racial Attitudes in Preparing a Culturally Responsive Teaching Workforce for Immigrants

    Open AccessGermán A Cadenas, Jesús Cisneros et al.ARTICLEJournal of Career Development2021

    Demands on the teacher workforce are changing as one quarter of children in U.S. schools live in immigrant families and about half of students are racial/ethnic minorities. Simultaneously, diminishing teacher support and teacher shortages cause reliance on alternative certification programs (e.g., Teach for America). In response, we studied the links between color-blind racial attitudes and culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy and outcome…

  • The Development and Evaluation of the Stigma of Illegality and Marginalization of Latinxs (Siml) Scale

    Open AccessCarlos E Santos, Germán A Cadenas et al.ARTICLEDu Bois Review Social Science…2021

    Drawing on two online studies among predominantly U.S.-born and lawful permanent resident Latinxs, we developed a self-report scale intended to capture how discrimination related to perceived legal status, as well as perceptions of racial/ethnic marginalization of Latinxs in U.S. society, are experienced among a wide swath of the Latinx population. We also explore how these processes may be associated with psychological distress in this populatio…

  • The undocumented advantage

    Germán A Cadenas, Elizabeth KiehneARTICLEJournal of Latinx Psychology2021

  • Development and Initial Validation of the Latinx Immigrant Threat Attitudes Scale

    Open AccessElizabeth Kiehne, Germán A CadenasARTICLEJournal of the Society for Social…2021Referências: 16

    Objective: The aim of this study is to develop and initially validate a psychometrically sound instrument to assess the extent to which Latinx immigrants are viewed as a threat. Method: Drawing on the integrated threat theory (ITT), we developed an initial pool of scale items to represent realistic and symbolic threats. Following best practices in scale construction, we used exploratory factor analysis followed by confirmatory factor analysis to …

  • Promoting critical consciousness, academic performance, and persistence among graduate students experiencing class-based oppression

    Germán A Cadenas, Lian Liu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2021Citada por: 5