Im officially a licensed clinical psychologist in my home country of #puertorico 😭😭😭🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🎉🎉🎉🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 un sueño hecho realidad 🥹

Join me on May 3rd and learn more about how trauma impacts Latinx populations.

So proud Cynthia M. Navarro Flores, PhD (she/her/hers/ella) @AleLVazquez Thania Galvan, PhD 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 great contribution to the field! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

NEW: Today, I released a Surgeon General's Advisory on the epidemic of loneliness and isolation facing our country, the destructive impacts it has on our collective health, and the extraordinary healing power of our relationships. Surgeongeneral.gov/loneliness #Connect2Heal 1/8

🚨New publication alert! Thanks to Dr. Isha Metzger for leading this amazing team of scholars. doi.org/10.1080/153744… #MentalHealthMonth #AcademicTwitter

NEW: Today, I released a Surgeon General's Advisory on Social Media and #YouthMentalHealth. This is the next step in our office’s work to address our youth mental health crisis. surgeongeneral.gov/ymh-social-med… 1/7

Do you provide trauma services to Latinx youth? Participate in our study! (and please share widely if you can!)

The greatest threats to mental health: poverty inequality social injustice abuse trauma discrimination (of all kinds) neoliberalism poor relationships, diet, exercise social exclusion materialism prejudice loneliness iatrogenesis individualism meaninglessness What did I miss?

Felicidades Natalia Giraldo-Santiago, PhD for this important study 💪🏾💪🏾🇵🇷🇵🇷

Give yourself space to color outside the lines, change your mind, blaze a new trail, and dance no matter who is watching.

#OTD in 1898, the US launched its invasion of Puerto Rico as part of the Spanish-American War. Ostensibly begun to help the Puerto Rican people throw off Spanish colonialism, the United States replaced Spain as colonizers. Puerto Rico remains a U.S. colony 125 years later. A 🧵1/

The Spanish-American War was an outgrowth of Cuba's war of independence against Spanish rule. U.S. economic interests, as well as "yellow journalism" that inflamed public sentiment toward Spain's wartime conduct, compelled the US to declare war on Spain on April 25, 1898. 2/

Súper orgullosa de Alejandro L. Vázquez, PhD !! Your future is bright! Wonderful student and now colleague 🥹🥹🥰🥰💪🏾💪🏾

Cynthia M. Navarro Flores, PhD (she/her/hers/ella) discussing how to navigate microaggressions in clinical practice and supervision. #ABCT2023 #ABCTSeattle23 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

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Proud mentor moment 🇵🇷💙♥️💙🥹🥹 The future is bright w these amazing colleagues! Alejandro L. Vázquez, PhD Cynthia M. Navarro Flores, PhD (she/her/hers/ella) J.C. Gonzalez, Ph.D. (he/him) #PuertoRico #hurricaneMaria

🚨New publication🚨 We found that the irritability and angry outburst symptom of PTSD was most associated with youths coping through substance use after a major natural disaster. This was more pronounced if youths did not have supportive others. doi.org/10.1002/jts.23…

Thanks to grist magazine for featuring our resent study published in ISTSS Journal of Traumatic Stress. This work was a team effort. Grateful to Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo,PhD Regan Stewart for providing the data and mentorship on this project. grist.org/health/how-cli…