Explore our collection of research publications, exhibiting our studies in mental health, education, and community engagement
A Showcase of Our Publications
Cross, F. L., Hoffman, A. J., Medina, M. A., Mora, A. S., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2025). Fostering Futures: Academic Socialization and Educational Utility among Latinx Parent/Adolescent Dyads. Journal of Latinx Psychology.
Cross, F., Blanco, S., Aramburu, J., Lucio, J., Stein, G. L. (2025). “They grow up in that environment”: Latinx immigrant parents’ sociopolitical engagement, youth agency, and the role of community organizations in a divisive U.S. immigration landscape. Journal of Community Psychology.
*Wu, K.C., *Hong, S., Cross, F., Sypher, I., McLoyd, V. C., Huntley, E., Hyde, L.W., Mitchell, C. & Monk, C.S. (2024) Enhancing Diversity in Neuroimaging Research: Participant-Driven Recommendations from a Qualitative Study of an Underrepresented Sample. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. [*shared first author]
Cross, F., *Esqueda, A. P., Ku, C.P., *Lucio, J., *Hunt, R., * Williams. C., Bailey, S., Williamson, S., Marsh, E., Resnicow, K. (2024). “Life as we knew it”: Continued challenges in getting up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations amongst Black and Latinx Michigan residents. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Buyuktur, A., Cross, F., Platt, J., Woolford, S., *Aramburu, J., Militzer, M., Brewer, S., McCollum, J., Reyes, A., Williams II, C., Marsh, E., Israel, B. (2024) Communities conquering COVID: African American and Latinx perspectives on
COVID-19 in regions of Michigan hardest hit by the pandemic. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.
Cureton, A., Tonui, B., Cross, F. L., Gonzalez Benson, O. (2024) “What’s at Stake?” An exploration on the merits and drawbacks of the Welcome Corps Program. International Social Work Journal.
Cross, F. L., *Hunt, R., Buyuktur, A., Platt, J., Reyes, A., Ledon, C., Israel, B., Marsh, E., Woolford, S. (2024). Factors that Impact Effective Public Health Communication with Michigan’s Latinx Population in the Context of COVID-19. Health Education & Behavior.
Cross, F. L., Bares, C. B., Wood, A. L., *Lucio, J., (2023) Adverse childhood experiences and tobacco use among Latinx parents in the United States. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Cross, F. L., Wileden, L., Buyuktur, A., Platt, J., Morenoff, J. D., *Aramburu, J., Militzer, M., *Esqueda, A. P., Movva, P., Zhao, Z., Sawant, K., Valbuena, F., Bailey, S., Israel, B., Marsh. E., Woolford, S. J. (2023). MICEAL Black and Latinx Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccination: A Mixed-methods examination. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Carmona, G., Sawant, K., Hamasha, R., Cross, F. L., Woolford, S., Buyuktur, A., Bailey, B.S., Rowe, Z., Marsh, E., Israel, B., Platt, J. (2023). Use of the socio-ecological model to explore trusted sources of COVID-19 information in Black and Latinx communities in Michigan. Journal of Communication in Healthcare.
Cross, F. L., Marchand, A., Diaz, M., Ledón, C., Waller, A., & Kruger, D. (2023). The role of documentation status concerns, perceived discrimination, and social support on Latinx adults’ physical and mental health. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
*Blanco, S., *Aramburu, J., *Grimes, E., *Lucio, J., Cross, F. L. (2023). Sharing the Burden: Latinx Immigrant Parents and Teens’ Sociopolitical Discussions and their Impact on Youth Mental Health. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.
Cross, F. L. (2022). Documentation Status Socialization as an Ethnic-racial Socialization Dimension: Incorporating the Experience of Mixed-Status Latinx Families. Studies in Social Justice.
Friedline, T., Cross, F. L., Doyle, K., Lacombe-Duncan, A., Schultz, K. (2022). Dismantling White Supremacy and Promoting Anti-racism in Social Work Research, Teaching, and Service: Tensions, Paradoxes, and a Collective Response. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Gonzalez Benson, O., Cross, F. L. Montalvo, C. J. (2022). How the pandemic brings to light our demand for migrant labor: Reflections for social work. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.
Montoro, J. P., Miller-Tejada, S., Cross, F. L., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2022). Parent-Adolescent Dissimilarity in Ethnic-Racial Identity Exploration: Implications for Adolescent Family Cohesion and Depressive Symptoms. Re/Formation and Identity: The Intersectionality of Development, Culture, and Immigration, 315-336.
Cross, F. L., *Blanco, S., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2021). Documentation Status Socialization among Latinx Immigrant parents. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.
Cross, F. L., *Aramburu, J., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2021). Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear. Qualitative Social Work.
Constante, K., Cross, F. L., Piceno, V., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2021). Latinx Adolescent Ethnic-Racial Discrimination and Expected Future Barriers Over Time. Developmental Psychology.
Cross, F. L., & Gonzalez Benson, O. (2021). The coronavirus pandemic and immigrant communities: A crisis that demands more of the social work profession. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work.
2020
Cross, F. L., Medina, A., Montoro, J., Medina, M., Pinetta, B., Miller, S., Tran, M., Rivas-Drake, D. (2020). Illuminating ethnic-racial socialization among undocumented Latinx parents and its implications for adolescent psychosocial functioning. Developmental Psychology.
Pinetta, B., *Martinez, S. B., Cross, F. L., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2020). Inherently political? Associations of parent ethnic-racial socialization and sociopolitical discussions with Latinx youth’s emergent civic engagement. American Journal of Community Psychology.
2019
Constante, K., Cross, F. L., Medina, M., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2019). Cultural socialization, family cohesion, and ethnic identity development: A longitudinal assessment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Cross, F. L., Marchand, A., Medina, M., *Villafuerte, A., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2019). Academic socialization and school involvement among Latino families in relation to adolescent school outcomes. Psychology in the Schools.
Cross, F. L., Rivas-Drake, D., Rowley, S., *Mendez, E., Ledón, C., Waller, A., & Kruger, D. (2019). Documentation status concern as a predictor of Latino parent school involvement. Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
2018
Cross, F. L., Hoffman, A., Constante, K., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2018). Ethnic-racial identity and depressive symptoms among Latino adolescents. Development and Psychopathology.
Constante, K., Marchand, A., Cross, F. L., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2018). Understanding the promotive role of familism in the link between ethnic-racial identity and Latino youth school engagement. Journal of Latina/o Psychology.
2017
Camacho, T. C., Bañales, J., Cross, F. L., Marchand, A., & Rivas-Drake, D. (2017). Psychological aspects of ethnic/racial identity and their associations with social behavior. Social issues in living color: Challenges and solutions from the perspective of ethnic minority psychology. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Books.
