TY  - JOUR
AU  - Keeney, Annie J.
AU  - Rodriguez, Anabel
AU  - Murillo, Jaime
AU  - Ingold, Savannah S.
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/01/06
TI  - <i>Ocupación de Familia</i>: Parent-Child Stress and Coping in Rural Farm-Dependent Families
JO  - OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
SP  - 002
VL  - 10
IS  - 01
AB  - Farmworkers are the backbone of the agricultural economy in the US yet are disproportionately burdened with economic-related stress and adverse behavioral health outcomes. How these stressors translate to children and family well-being is poorly understood. Grounded in Transactional Stress and Coping Theory, we aimed to understand how children and families adapt and respond to the stressors associated with farm labor occupations in a rural, underserved, bi-national community. We utilized focus groups with adult children of farmworkers and behavioral health providers serving the farming community to understand the lived experiences of growing up with a farmworker parent. Findings suggest that farm-dependent families face chronic, interconnected stressors. Farm work is viewed as a family occupation where each member contributes directly or indirectly to the farm labor efforts. Distinct coping strategies were used among parents and children. To effectively support farm-dependent families, we recommend prioritizing K-12 policy and programming specific to farmworker families, reducing farmworker's exposure to precarious employment conditions, and employing universal harm reduction strategies to address substance use.
SN  - 2573-4393
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2501002
DO  - 10.21926/obm.icm.2501002
ID  - Keeney2025
ER  -