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Madonna P. Cadiz, LCSW is a Full-Time Lecturer in the School of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach (É«ÖÐÉ«). She is also a Doctoral Candidate in Social Welfare at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. Her research seeks to explore how the mental health and overall well-being of individuals in immigrant families are shaped by the sociocultural contexts in both their host country and country of origin. She utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods to highlight the processes underlying and connecting these phenomena. Her research agenda draws from years of experience as a bilingual therapist and researcher in community-based mental health clinics. Having worked primarily with children, adolescents, and young adults in immigrant families, she saw firsthand how sociocultural contexts and cultural values worked subtly to influence clients’ relationships with their parents, their self-concepts, and their mental health symptoms. Her work aims to inform clinical practice by deepening our understanding of how sociocultural factors impact mental health among immigrant populations, as well as how such insights can be integrated into effective, culturally responsive treatment.

Ms. Cadiz has co-authored multiple articles on various topics related to mental health and well-being among immigrant and other vulnerable or oppressed populations. Her latest collaborative publication reflects the joint efforts of fellow Pilipinx American (PA) social work scholars to center decolonial conceptualizations of mental health within the PA community: . Prior to entering her Ph.D. program, she held research positions at the Program for Torture Victims and the Suicide Prevention Center at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, where she contributed to mixed-methods evaluations of client functioning and program efficacy.