To impact the development and funding of community-based intervention programs, policies must be put in place. The Congressional Black Caucus created anEmergency Taskforceon Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health, advocating for increased NIH/NIMH research funding and emphasizing evidence-based intervention...
The Black Youth Mental Health Epidemic. A Crisis in Its Own RightCalhoun, AmandaPsychiatric Times
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study in theJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatryreports that Black youth living in communities with high (vs. low) anti-Black racism are less likely to benefit from psychotherapy ("talk therapy;" such as cognitive behavioral ther...
BACKGROUND: We examined the prevalence of co-occurring mental health problems among mono-racial and mixed-race black youth entering substance abuse treatment programs. METHODS: We used pooled clinical data from 12-25 year old blacks reporting a single racial identity (n=2,143) and blacks with ...
Youth in Transition: Youth in Transition: Mental Health Problems of Black and Micmac Students at Dalhousie Universitydoi:10.1177/070674378002500110http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/cpab/1980/cpab_25_1/070674378002500110/20170502/070674378002500110.fp.png_v03...
A limitation of the study is that the black box warning was issued at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had its own effect on the mental health of youth. But for OU researchers, their study underscores the importance of conversations between doctors and families, said the study...
Mental Health and Educational Experiences Among Black Youth: A Latent Class AnalysisDual-factor model of mental healthEducational experiencesSchool bondingBlack adolescentsDisproportionately lower educational achievement, coupled with higher grade retention, suspensions, expulsions, and lower school bonding make ...
Mental health and educational experiences among Black youthTheda RoseApha
Mental healthblack youthconnectednessjuvenile justicetransition to adulthoodABSTRACTMichelle R. Munsonhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5030-3451Amy Blank WilsonDaniel Gibbshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1920-6768mvilloda@gmu.eduMelissa L. VillodasMichelle R. Munson...
Improving Black Youth Mental HealthKuntz, LeahCalhoun, Amanda J.Psychiatric Times