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Marginalized Groups

We believe that historical injustices create multi-generational patterns of discrimination. Much of Community Psychology injects this perspective within their work on every topic. Some research focuses exclusively/primarily on groups impacted by injustice and marginalization.

Using a Community Based Participatory Approach to Develop Parent Education for Parents of LatinX Youth

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Researchers developed a curriculum to help parents and adolescents resist drugs and address risky behavior. A Community Based Participatory Approach accounted for multiple factors including the individuals, their environment, culture, and societal expectations.

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Taking a Strengths-Based Perspective for Community-Level Interventions and Policies with Black Men

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There is a gap in the research on the social-structural and community resources that enhance the resiliency of young Black men in the United States. We must shift our focus to emphasize the strengths and environmental attributes that facilitate the positive development and health of young Black men.

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Supports that White Mentors and BIPOC Mentees Need

Posted in: Children, Youth and Families, Marginalized Groups | Tags:
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There is often a mismatch between volunteer mentors’ backgrounds and the diverse youth they serve. Anti-racism training and applying a social justice framework throughout the mentor-mentee relationship may be important to their success.

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Immigrants Who Actively Participate in Receiving Communities have Better Mental Health

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Active community participation is positively associated with a sense of community and adding value which, in turn, increases immigrant wellbeing. Supporting organizations in their outreach to immigrants and promoting their active engagement in the community can contribute to support immigrant mental health.

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Counterspaces: Fostering Healthy Identity Development

Posted in: Anti-Racism, Education, Marginalized Groups, Sense of Community | Tags:
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The Cultural Identity Project facilitated a space where students spoke to their own empowering actions developing from critical awareness, healing, and solidarity. People with power in any system must work to uproot oppression for spaces to live up to their potential.

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Intimate Partner Violence in People Who are Non-Cisgender and/or Heterosexual

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Social stigma puts LGBTQ+ people at a greater risk for IPV. IPV is under-reported in all groups, and this may be particularly true in the LGBTQ+ community. IPV can present differently in the LGBTQ+ community and therefore explicit and inclusive training for behavioral health professionals is needed.

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Blog: Taíno Psychology Offers Different Ways of Thinking and Engaging in Academic Research

Posted in: Blog, Inspiration, Marginalized Groups
Indigenous Taíno psychology is not usually centered in mainstream western thought. My own Taíno lineage has been the “fertile ground” that has informed the spirituality that I practice.

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Disaggregating the Term AAPI for Nuanced Mental Health Research

Posted in: Marginalized Groups, Mental Health | Tags:
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) is an umbrella term that includes fifty different ethnic groups speaking over one hundred languages. There is profound diversity and unique experiences among AAPIs including historical trauma and mental health care needs. Mental health research today addresses the AAPIs as a monolith and obscures the complex diversity of the […]

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Physical Space Impacts the Founding of Sexual Assault Cases

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Physical space can affect police decisions in sexual assault cases. Communities with a greater number of Black, Latinx, and Asian residents, as well as wealthier communities, had higher rates of founding, but the effect was geographically uneven. Interventions addressing gender-based violence and systemic biases are needed so lower-resourced individuals or individuals part of minoritized groups […]

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Photograph of Oona Smith

What is Active Transportation and Why?

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The healthy approach to transportation planning is to pay attention to the intersectionality of our transportation systems and specific desired outcomes: our community health; safety; access; livability, quality of life and quality of neighborhoods; environmental justice; and equity. Learn more about intersectionality and transportation planning!

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