A5081608341- Youth Development and Social Support
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Community Health and Development
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Impact of Education Environments
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Health
Georgia State University
2022-2025
Indiana State University
2020
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts have closed for remainder academic year. These closures are unfortunate because, students, schools their only source trauma-informed care and supports. When reopen, they must develop comprehensive plan to address potential mental health needs students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
ABSTRACT Although rates of suicide among Black American youth have increased in recent years, few brief assessment tools been culturally tailored and validated to better identify risk for this population. The current study addresses gap by testing the validity reliability Cultural Assessment Suicide Risk‐short form (CARS‐S) an online sample adolescents. Three hundred eighty‐one adolescents ( M age = 17.5) completed a 13‐item CARS‐S measure online. Cronbach's alpha exploratory confirmatory...
Ensuring a psychologically and physically safe learning environment for students staff is necessary to learn grow teachers teach. However, Black other marginalized students, the school often emotionally unsafe they are targeted by anti-Black policies practices, ultimately producing inequitable outcomes. As such, safety must be reexamined reconceptualized promote safe, secure, welcoming students. In this article, we will discuss school-based experiences of in American schools with particular...
This study examined the literacy trajectories of 185 Head Start-eligible Black children from preschool to first grade enrolled in a high-quality early learning program physically connected an elementary school where they attended kindergarten and grade. Social emotional, language, skills were assessed fall spring year prekindergarten (PreK) only Children made language gains childhood that maintained into Although learning/elementary experience performed above peers on skills, differences...
We explored mothers’ beliefs, expectations, and behaviors as these relate to early academic success, their roles parents young children, the influence of other ecological factors. Eleven African American mothers children in kindergarten through third grades were interviewed twice with daily journaling for 2 weeks. Utilizing both Bronfenbrenner’s systems theory Spencer’s phenomenological variant our primary theoretical underpinnings, results interpreted emphasizing contextual, cultural,...
Despite progress over the past decade in math and reading, proficiency scores of African American boys continue to trail behind those White, Latino, Asian male counterparts. boys’ reading disparities have been attributed negative portrayal pervasive deficit-oriented discourse about these young men. Using salient characteristics organizational culture as a framework, this paper offers strategies for creating culturally responsive environment that supports promotes high academic performance...
The intentional and sustained actions to advance diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) in school psychology science scholarship, will have reciprocal dynamic influences on graduate preparation practice. Herein, the School Psychology Review leadership team provides reflections several of our efforts, date, advocate for DEI associated implications Contemporary included; (a) establishing commitments advocating advancing as foundation scholarship; (b) diversifying journal editorial board members...
This article aims to illuminate the perceptions of a pilot grief- and trauma-informed empowerment arts summer program for adolescents who lived in an at-risk Southern, urban neighborhood identified by city question as having high percentage street violence. The study it is based on was grounded qualitative techniques, which consisted focus groups interviews. All interviews were analyzed themes determine common experiences among adolescent participants instructors responsible implementing...
The Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) has been effective alleviating symptoms of trauma among students exposed to trauma. Despite its effectiveness, many schools struggle implement such interventions due limited time resulting from the required core instructional demands. This pilot study assesses effectiveness CBITS sessions with modifications lengths and elimination exposure sessions. current uses a mixed-methods approach evaluate impact nine middle-school who...