At the 2019 Anxiety and Depression Association of America National Conference held in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Alcántara led a symposium focused on exploring self-regulation processes among racial/ethnic minority communities. The research presented covered self-regulation processes from infancy to adulthood. Dr. Alcántara presented findings from the Latino Sleep and Health Study examining the associations of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive self-regulation with insomnia and sleep quality among Latina/o adults in New York City. Dr. Kimberly D'Anna-Hernandez from California State University-San Marcos presented her work on examining the effects of acculturation, acculturative stress, discrimination, pregnancy-specific stress, and general perceived stress experienced by pregnant Mexican-American women on the emotional regulation of their 6-month old infants. Dr. Briana Woods-Jaegar from Emory University presented findings from focus groups she conducted with African American adolescents exploring which self-regulatory processes adolescents were utilizing to cope with community violence. To conclude the symposium, Dr. Douglas Mennin from Columbia University Teacher's College, provided a summary of the current knowledge of self-regulation processes among racial/ethnic minority communities and shared his thoughts on the works presented throughout the symposium.
