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  1. Trauma and healing in the Latine immigrant community: Interdisciplinary and resilience-oriented approaches.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, July 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  2. Patterns of multimorbidity among low-income adults who smoke with implications for tailored interventions: a cluster analysis using a Mixture of Bernoulli model

    Article • Frontiers in Medicine, March 2026, Frontiers

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  3. Rethinking Smoking and Quitting in Low-Income Contexts: A Qualitative Analysis with Implications for Practice and Policy

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  4. Inclusion of People of Color in Randomized Controlled Trials for the Unified Protocol: A Systematic Review

    Article • Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  5. Implementing a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) promotion intervention among persons who inject drugs: Perspectives from community and research implementation partners

    Article • Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, May 2025, Elsevier

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  6. Correction: Promoting alcohol treatment engagement post-hospitalization with brief intervention, medications and CBT4CBT: protocol for a randomized clinical trial in a diverse patient population

    Article • Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  7. Community, professional, and lived experiences shape competence in immigrant mental health service.

    Article • Practice Innovations, March 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  8. Improvement in coping skills from culturally-adapted digital CBT for Spanish-speaking Hispanics with substance use disorder: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial

    Article • Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, January 2025, Elsevier

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  9. Antiracist activism for immigrant rights and healthy coping: Initial evidence for a community‐based framework

    Article • American Journal of Community Psychology, December 2024, Wiley

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  10. Reasons for declining participation in inpatient research among historically minoritized racial and ethnic communities: A scoping review

    Article • Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, December 2024, Elsevier

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  11. Promoting Race and Ethnic Diversity in a Hospital-Based Randomized Clinical Trial to Address Untreated Alcohol Use Disorder: Initial Lessons Learned

    Article • Journal of Addiction Medicine, November 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  12. Juvenile Justice-Based Interdisciplinary Collective Care: An Innovative Approach

    Article • Community Mental Health Journal, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  13. A decolonial and liberation lens to social justice research: Upholding promises for diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science.

    Article • American Psychologist, December 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Luz Garcini, Dr. Aldo Barrita, Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  14. Enrollment of Spanish-speaking Latinx adults in clinical trials: Five lessons learned from a randomized study in substance use treatment

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Dependence, December 2023, Elsevier

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  15. Liderando juntos y revueltos: A collectivistic leadership approach to address Latinx immigrant health and psychological needs.

    Article • Psychological Services, October 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  16. Impact of COVID-19 on Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors and Families: Perspectives from Clinical Experts and Providers

    Article • Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  17. Buscando la Calma Dentro de la Tormenta: A Brief Review of the Recent Literature on the Impact of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Policies on Stress Among Latinx Immigrants

    Article • Chronic Stress, January 2023, SAGE Publications

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  18. Teletherapy trauma treatment in context: Caring for refugee patients during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Article • Practice Innovations, December 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  19. Teaching DBT skills to DACA recipients and their families: Findings from an ECHO program.

    Article • Practice Innovations, October 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Luz Garcini, Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  20. Unaccompanied migrant youth from Central America: Challenges and opportunities

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, October 2022, Elsevier

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  21. Comparative Performance of the Resilience Inventory (IRES) and Resilience Scale-14 (RS-14) Spanish Versions Among Postpartum Adolescent Mothers

    Article • Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  22. Tu bienestar es mi bienestar: A psychosociocultural understanding of Latinx immigrant well-being through a qualitative lens.

    Article • Journal of Latinx Psychology, May 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez, Lisa Flores

  23. Peer Support in Behavioral Health care: why it can work in the Latinx context

    Article • Revista Iberoamericana de Psicología, June 2021, Corporacion Universitaria Iberoamericana

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  24. Telehealth treatment engagement with Latinx populations during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, March 2021, Elsevier

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  25. Establishing reliability and validity for mental health screening instruments in resource-constrained settings: Systematic review of the PHQ-9 and key recommendations

    Article • Psychiatry Research, September 2020, Elsevier

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  26. Negative Immigrant Community Experiences (NICE): A scale development study.

    Article • Journal of Latina/o Psychology, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Lisa Flores, Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  27. Assessing the etic and emic well-being of Latino male undergraduates: Navegando los obstáculos de la universidad con mi cultura.

    Article • Psychology of Men & Masculinity, April 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez

  28. Familism

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez