Latina Adolescent Self-Injury as Coping with Dr. Lauren Gulbas

04/02/19 • -1 min

For this episode we spoke to Dr. Lauren Gulbas, a cultural and medical anthropologist at the UT Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work. Lauren Gulbas has a long-standing interest in understanding how social change in local contexts shapes cultural meanings and experiences of distress across individual, cultural, and institutional levels. We drank Heartea (a blend of rose hips, rose petals, cinnamon, tulsi, and skullcap) and talked about her research on the topic of attempted suicide among Latina teens. latina_adolescent_self-injury_as_coping_with_dr._lauren_gulbas.wavFile Size: 55311 kbFile Type: wavDownload File

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