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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.

Disaggregating the Term AAPI for Nuanced Mental Health Research

Posted in: Marginalized Groups, Mental Health | Tags: Featured Content
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 […]

Physical Space Impacts the Founding of Sexual Assault Cases

Posted in: Criminal Justice, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured Research
Published in: American Journal of Community Psychology
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 […]

What is Active Transportation and Why?

Posted in: Marginalized Groups, Sense of Community | Tags: Featured Research
Published in: The Community Psychologist
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!

Blog: Community Psychology Principles for Asset-Based and Citizen-Driven Actions Can Help Immigrants Thrive

Posted in: Blog, Immigrant Justice, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Video
Acculturation includes attitudinal changes that take place after contact with culturally dissimilar people, groups, and social influences. The process of acculturation invites host society members to adapt through contact with culturally dissimilar people. Communities thrive when they actively welcome immigrants and proactively assist with their acculturation.

Fixes that Fail: Reducing Food Deserts, Poverty, Crime, and Intergenerational Incarceration

Posted in: Criminal Justice, Marginalized Groups, Poverty and Socioeconomic Status | Tags: Featured Research
Published in: American Journal of Community Psychology
A systems approach is needed to address the context roots underlying urban access to healthy food. The root problem stems back to systemic racism. Creating sustainable community wealth can address food deserts and upstream issues criminal justice.

Effective Community-Based Parent Training with Low-Income African American and Latino Parents

Posted in: Children, Youth and Families, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured Research
Published in: Prevention Science
Parent training programs designed in partnership with parents can be effective for a culturally and economically diverse population of parents. Parents who attended at least 50% of the CPP intervention reported increased parenting self-efficacy, consistency in discipline, greater expression of warmth toward their children, and fewer child behavioral problems.

Adapting Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention Practices in Alaskan Native Villages

Posted in: Marginalized Groups, Prevention Science | Tags: Featured Research
Published in: American Journal of Community Psychology
Transplanting evidence-based practices into new contexts requires extensive thought and consideration as most interventions are not developed with populations at highest risk in mind. Our study highlights the importance of including community members and everyday people in plans to take action for social change.

Indigenous Culture and Wellness: Healing and Wellbeing in the face of Colonization

Posted in: Children, Youth and Families, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured Research
Published in: American Journal of Community Psychology
Indigenous Peoples are revitalizing our culture and way of life, improving our ability to self-heal. When accounting for an individual’s cultural efficacy in our study, cultural engagement was related to lower levels of anxiety and was significantly related to flourishing mental wellbeing.

Resisting State Sanctioned Violence: A Toolkit for Community Organizers

Posted in: Coalition Building, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured Content
Published in: American Journal of Community Psychology
Marginalized communities have long persisted in the work toward liberation despite continued state-sanctioned violence (SSV). We created a toolkit for organizers, community members, allies, and mental health professionals who want to build individual and community resilience while resisting SSV. We aimed to support marginalized communities through making psychological literature accessible and relevant to community-based through […]

Brief Report: Analyzing Radical Self-Care Origins and Community Self-Care Practice

Posted in: Marginalized Groups, Self Help | Tags: Featured Content
Published in: The Community Psychologist
It seems very normalized for Black women to make ultimate sacrifices to personal health and wellness for the betterment of others. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, breast cancer, cervical cancer, fibroid tumors, premature birth rates, sickle cell disease, sexually transmitted diseases, and mental health issues are killing Black women in the United States at disproportionate rates. […]