American journal of community psychology最新文献

{"title":"Implementation evaluation of a community-based youth participatory action research program.","authors":"Nicholas Szoko, Ebonie Slade, Alana Fields, Keona Blankenship, Elizabeth Miller, Alison J Culyba","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12815","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Youth participatory action research (YPAR), a method in which young people are engaged as research partners and change agents, offers a powerful paradigm to promote empowerment and liberation. YPAR interventions have been applied in diverse settings to address various issues. Identifying barriers and facilitators to implementing YPAR programs may increase the scope and impact of this study. Implementation and dissemination science (IDS) utilizes structured evaluation frameworks to assess determinants of intervention uptake, utilization, and sustainability. IDS has long been utilized in community psychology; yet applications to YPAR are limited. In the present study, we use the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to evaluate a community-based YPAR intervention. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data collected from multiple informants (e.g., participants, facilitators, and research team members) throughout the implementation period, we describe key barriers and facilitators related to programming. In addition, we present preliminary implementation outcomes (e.g., feasibility, acceptability) from our intervention. In describing these analyses, we center IDS as a key approach for rigorous evaluation of YPAR and similar community-based programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144092554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kansas city brain builders: Progress implementing a multisectoral approach promoting equity in young children's language nutrition and school readiness.","authors":"Charles R Greenwood, Judith J Carta, Alana G Schnitz, Dola Williams, Gabriela Guerrero, Sandra Cintora, Jomella Watson-Thompson","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12814","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Language nutrition, a phrase depicting language exposure occurring during caregiver-child social interactions, holds immense significance in a child's oral language acquisition and early brain development. We report progress promoting language nutrition by the KC Brain Builders Community Coalition (KCBB). A longitudinal, multilevel design was used to evaluate the effects of the KCBB. An online logbook was used to track community actions, and 83 families (73% Latinx) completed surveys reporting the reach of the KCBB. Twelve community sectors and 21 organizations were involved in 329 actions targeting changes in practices, programs, and policies. Significant relationships were identified between parents' knowledge of the importance of talking to babies, the children's home language environment, and expressive language skills. An approach for promoting population-level changes in children's language nutrition is demonstrated. Initial findings indicated that language acquisition in young children is driven by a child's language environment, its structure and function. Implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144101056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promoting radical healing to facilitate community capacity building among formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men with substance use disorders.","authors":"Richmond E Hayes, Heather A Jones, Ellen Benoit, Dora N Watkins, Liliane C Windsor","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12816","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study reports on a qualitative thematic analysis of secondary data from group session recordings collected as part of the Community Wise Optimization Trial. Community Wise is a multilevel behavioral intervention designed to increase critical consciousness and reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men living in predominantly Black and historically disinvested communities (BHDC). Radical healing is a process of recovering from the trauma of oppression based on identification with historically marginalized groups. The current analysis sought to examine if there is evidence of radical healing components (critical consciousness, radical hope, strength and resistance, cultural authenticity and self-knowledge, and collectivism or emotional and social support) in Community Wise's group sessions. Results revealed evidence of all radical healing components in Community Wise participants' rich narratives as they engaged in critical dialogue and explored ways to improve their communities. Given a lack of culturally relevant approaches, this study's findings provide supporting evidence for the incorporation of the radical healing framework in interventions seeking to enhance treatment outcomes and address social determinants of health in BHDC.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144092557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sharing elders' stories through culturally resonant research: A narrative perspective on the Kūpuna Interview Project.","authors":"Rachel L Burrage, Chrisovolandou K Gronowski, Leslie Tanoue, Rayce Bento, Kauʻi Manera, Laverne Toki, Monique Ocampo, Shelley Muneoka, Keilyn L Kawakami, Kathryn L Braun","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12809","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides a first-person perspective on the Kūpuna Interview Project, a culturally resonant, community-based, qualitative research project designed to examine the health experiences of Native Hawaiian elders. The voices included in this article are from two elder research participants, three representatives of a community partner organization, one university faculty member, and one student member of the research team, all of Native Hawaiian ancestry. Together, these individual testimonies highlight the importance of community-engaged, culturally relevant narrative research. Lessons learned include the importance of self-reflexivity among members of the research team when working with the community, meaningful gifts for participants, the need for interviewers to take time getting to know the participants and their communities, and the potential for research to create and strengthen meaningful relationships. Finally, this project demonstrates the potential of future research in community psychology to intentionally facilitate spaces for narrative co-creation by participants and researchers.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143953446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the influence of social support on community participation for adults with serious mental illnesses.","authors":"Rachel Terry, Emily Leickly, Greg Townley","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12813","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As researchers, advocates, and policymakers continue to emphasize community participation for people with serious mental illness (SMI), it is important to understand and strengthen the natural ties that these individuals have in the community. This study investigated how the social support provided by natural supports (i.e., relationships that occur in everyday life, such as friends, family members, co-workers, and neighbors) relates to community participation. It was hypothesized that natural supports would be positively associated with community participation. Forty-eight participants completed a survey, and 15 of these participants completed a semi-structured qualitative interview. Family, friends, and neighbors were the most frequently identified supports. However, spouses, religious leaders, and pets provided higher levels of emotional support. Average total support was significantly related to community participation. Themes included families spending time together, mental health challenges as barriers to participation, and the desire to do activities with others. These findings provide insight about the role of natural supports in promoting community participation and inform interventions aimed at increasing social support and community participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143956439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engaging decolonial approaches to deracialize and humanize migrants.","authors":"Christopher C Sonn","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We are continuing to live in unsettling times that demand responses from researchers, scholars and activists to create and mobilise knowledge for liberation, wellbeing, and justice. This commentary draws from my lived experience and research in migration that I use to highlight the rootshock of displacement and the contributions of community psychology to understand these impacts. The commentary invites engagement with the decolonial turn, the need to examine longer histories of colonization and imperialism and how these continue to shape understandings of self and others, and intergroup relations. The commentary also emphasizes decoloniality as a movement of embrace that involves expanding our ecologies of knowledge and practice to support critical solidarities for liberation, wellbeing, and justice.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143961835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Together we are stronger\": YPAR and Latinx immigrant youth resilience and resistance to oppressive immigration policies.","authors":"Emily D Lemon, Kenia Ruiz, Audrey Ling, Jonathan Peraza Campos, Kathleen M Roche, Shakira Suglia, Melvin Livingston, Briana Woods-Jaeger","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Latinx adolescents, representing 25% of the U.S. child population, face significant mental health challenges due to aggressive immigration enforcement and policies rooted in racism, nativism, and ethnocentrism. These systemic issues contribute to increased rates of sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal behaviors among Latinx adolescents. Addressing this crisis requires interventions that mitigate the harms of these policies and promote youth voice and agency to foster resilience and resistance and, ultimately, liberation from oppression. This study explores how Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) can empower Latinx immigrant youth to build resilience and resist oppressive systems threatening their well-being. Using a grounded theory qualitative approach, we examined the PARA Jóvenes YPAR project, which engaged 10 Latinx immigrant youth from a community with a history of aggressive immigration enforcement. Through triangulating in-depth interviews, facilitator reflections, and photovoice transcripts, we identified key YPAR components-near-peer mentorship, community building, cultural affirmation, creative expression, and critical inquiry-that promoted and supported youth in developing critical consciousness, cultural authenticity, self-knowledge, and connectedness. This study highlights the transformative potential of YPAR to promote mental health and liberation for Latinx immigrant youth impacted by immigration policies. It underscores the need for further research on its efficacy as an intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143956190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond denial: Police-recommended solutions to community policing challenges.","authors":"Rebecca L Fix","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12810","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Policing has long constituted a public health crisis for Black communities in the United States, and continues to pose a profound threat to the safety and well-bein of community members, underscoring the need to more toward accountability and care. Many societal discourses plaguing the current zeitgeist include addressing what to do about policing. Obtaining perspectives from police personnel is beneficial to increasing understanding of these issues. The current study examined police perceptions of strained police-community relationships through individual interviews with 26 police personnel from a single large metropolitan US police agency. Over half (n = 18) of participants identified as sworn personnel (e.g., police with arrest powers like those working patrol or as a detective). Others (n = 8) identified as civilian or non-sworn personnel (e.g., forensic employees, analysts, instructors). Grounded theory was used to code data, resulting in three parent codes: Observed Policing Harms, Unhelpful Attitudes, and Recommendations for Police Reform. Personnel identified five factors contributing to observed policing harsh on members of the community: (1) policies that afford subjectivity in policing, (2) police culture, (3) training practices, (4) unaddressed police-community disconnect, and (5) police hiring and selection practices. Unhelpful attitudes included statements reflecting thinking patterns that might serve as barriers in promoting better police community relations. Three recommendations for police reform emerged: (1) humanize Black community members, (2) emphasize police mental health, and (3) use restorative justice practices in policing. Addressing the complex array of challenges outlined in this study requires multifaceted strategies that prioritize transparency, accountability, community-centered approaches, and significant cultural shifts within policing and law enforcement. Implementing these reforms is crucial in fostering trust, legitimacy, and mutually respectful and safe interactions and relationships between police agencies and the communities they police. These transformations hold the potential to propel us toward a model of restorative policing.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143972148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The efficacy and usability of motivational interviewing just-in-time trainings for youth mentors.","authors":"Mackenzie J Hart, Samuel D McQuillin, Aidyn Iachini, Daniel K Cooper, Mark D Weist","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12804","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using youth mentors to deliver evidence-based psychosocial services has been proposed to increase the reach of treatments, in part given the affordability and ubiquity of mentors in youth settings. Further, tests of mentor-delivered motivational interviewing (MI) have shown increases in youth mentees' academic performance and wellbeing. Yet, traditional methods of training mentors to use MI can be costly and time-consuming. Previous work has suggested the value of asynchronous, brief, just-in-time training (JITT) to help offset these challenges; however, MI JITT for mentors has not yet been formally evaluated. As such, here, we report on a preliminary study of MI JITT videos for youth mentors. Mentors in the program were randomly assigned to training-as-usual or training-as-usual plus JITT. MI attitudes, knowledge, and skills were measured via self-report pre- and post-intervention. Results indicate that assignment to the JITT video condition was associated with significantly improved reflection skills. Effect size analyses also suggest moderate improvements in understanding MI mechanisms and theory, and in other MI skills (e.g., asking open-ended questions). Mentors found the JITT videos acceptable and usable and reported understanding their content. The article concludes with a discussion of considerations for future research and implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143966227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"It's a mass shooting in the hood everyday\": Black and Latine youth organizers' reflections on structural racism and community gun violence.","authors":"Taylor A Reed, Sara Wilf, Victoria Millet, Laura Wray-Lake","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12807","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated young Black and Latine organizers' perceptions of how mainstream narratives of gun violence relate to and influence their antigun violence organizing work. We analyzed interview data from 22 Black and Latine young people (Mage = 19.91, 55% women) who were engaged in gun violence prevention organizations in the United States. The results centered on three themes: (1) Young people's journeys of gaining awareness of structural racism through personal experience with gun violence, (2) media's perpetuation of structural racism through its dismissal of community gun violence, and (3) the need for community-based solutions to address the root causes of gun violence. These findings shed light on how societal elements, including the media, policymakers, and white-led gun violence prevention organizations, perpetuate structural racism and pose challenges to the organizing efforts of Black and Latine youth. Furthermore, these findings amplify young Black and Latine gun violence prevention organizers' experiences with gun violence and their frustrations towards the discriminatory media portrayals of gun violence in their communities, as well as recognize the importance of their organizing work.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143959510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}