RESEARCH FOCI: Latino Emerging adults Masculinity, healthy relationships & wellbeing, Health Policy
Publications
Cardona, P., Castillo, J & Perez, L., (2016). El abordaje psicosocial de la conducta suicida como un problema de salud pública (ENG: Psychosocial approach to suicide as a public health issue). Aula psicológica: aproximaciones de la psicología social a los debates actuales de las ciencias humanas. Universidad del Bosque: Bogotá, Colombia.
Mendoza, L., Castillo, J., (2017). Vivir, pensar y sentir desde los laboratorios vivos: una caracterización socioeconómica y psicosocial de los participantes (ENG. Live, think and feel from the living laboratories: a psychosocial and socioeconomic characterization of the participants). Tecnologías simbólicas y culturas creativas: la experiencia regional de los laboratorios vivos de innovación y cultural. Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Seccional Caribe: Cartagena, Colombia.
Research Conferences
Castillo, J.S., & Stephens, (2022, June). Hispanic college men perceptions of sexuality: Examining Cross Cultural Values. Poster presentation for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Annual Conference. Puerto Rico, US.
** Undergraduate Student, * Graduate Student
To view research projects that Juan has taken a leadership role in developing and/ or implementing, please visit our Current Research and Completed Research study pages.
Current ResearchDrawing from samples both in the United States and Latin America, this quanitative study gathers information about men's perceptions of mental health values and help seeking behaviors using a cultural lens.
This content analysis examines the meanings over 250 college Latino's give to the concepts of sex, sexual health education and sexual empowerment. Particular attention is being paid to culturally specific influences shaping these perceptions