Faculty Mentors

Daniel Santisteban, PhD

Professor
Department of Educational and Psychological Studies
University of Miami

Dr. Daniel Santisteban is a Professor in the Department of Education and Psychological Studies and the Director of the Dunspaugh-Dalton Community & Educational Well-Being Research Center at the University of Miami. He is a licensed psychologist and his more recent program of research has led to the development of an adaptive and evidence-based family therapy called Culturally Informed and Flexible Family Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA). CIFFTA eschews a “one size fits all” approach, creates a process for tailoring the treatment to the unique adolescents and family cultural and clinical characteristics, and includes decision rules that will allow the treatment to be replicated. Dr. Santisteban has been the recipient of six NIH clinical research grants to develop and test enhancements to family treatments for special populations, a grant from the American Suicide Foundation, and more recently a SAMHSA grant to provide training in Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment.

Selected Publications:

Perreira, K.M., Marchante, A.N., Schwartz, S.J., Isasi, C.R., Carnethon, M.R., Corliss, H.L., Kaplan, R.C., Santisteban, D.A., Vidot, D.C., Van Horn, L. and Delamater, A.M. (2019). Stress and resilience: key correlates of mental health and substance use in the Hispanic community health study of Latino youth. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 21(1), pp.4-13. PMCID: PMC6141349.

Gattamorta, K. A., Mena, M. P., Ainsley, J. B., & Santisteban, D. A. (2017). The comorbidity of psychiatric and substance use disorders among Hispanic adolescents. Journal of dual diagnosis, 13(4), 254-263. PMCID: PMC6103297.

Stanforth, E. T., McCabe, B. E., Mena, M. P., & Santisteban, D. A. (2016). Structure of Problem Recognition Questionnaire with Hispanic/Latino Adolescents. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment71, 36-40. PMCID: PMC5082422.