During the next Prevention Talk we will be addressing the following question: How do we in the prevention community need to adapt evidence-based interventions to fit different prevention delivery systems and contexts? Prevention scientists have developed many efficacious preventive interventions in a variety of areas. Dr. Felipe González Castro is Professor and Southwest Borderlands Scholar in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Washington. He is a Latino health psychologist, who conducts multivariate model analyses of health behaviors and healthful behavior change. He utilizes a stress-coping-resilience paradigm to understand how cognitive, affective, and behavioral factors affect health and well-being, and expression of resilience These analyses also examine the influences of Latinx cultural factors, such as acculturation stress, traditionalism, familismo, ethnic pride, and Latinx gender roles, as risk or protective factors in the prevention of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, and in the prevention of type 2 diabetes. Dr. Castro is the originator of the Integrative Mixed Methods (IMM) methodology, a rigorous QUAL and QUAN methodology for conducting culturally-rich health research. He has received research support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Dr. Castro is a Fellow of Division 45 of the American Psychological Association. He has also been awarded the Community, Culture and Prevention Science Award, and the Service to SPR Award from the Society for Prevention Research.
