A strong contender for mental health screening in Latinx immigrant youth: Psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

•Rapid increase in asylum-seeking Latinx youth as well as mental health disparity•Absence of psychometrically-vetted instruments in Spanish-speaking immigrant youth•Propose Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire to screen Latinx immigrant youth•Support for the Total Score, particularly for externalizing behavior problems•Support for subscales limited, inadequate internal consistency and reliability