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{"title":"Reducing Indigenous suicide: Recognizing vital land and food systems for livelihoods","authors":"Emma Elliott,&nbsp;Megan Bang","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12712","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12712","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Colonial trauma poses a significant risk to the physical, intellectual, and mental health of Indigenous youth and young adults. Education and mental health scholars are increasingly concerned about the emotional wellbeing of young people, particularly as rates of suicide have increased across the United States. With interest in identifying the unique contextual dynamics involved in understanding Indigenous suicide, this work considers characteristics related to colonialism that may uncover strategies for both educators and mental health practitioners that address disparities. Drawing on a larger ethnographic study, this inquiry asks how settler encroachment upon Indigenous land and food systems is related to death by suicide from the perspective of Cowichan Tribes members. Comprehensive semi-structured interviews were conducted (<i>n</i> = 21); each interview was audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed deductively based upon a priori suppositions related to settler colonial theory. Cowichan members' narrated explanations for suicide rooted in disruptions to (1) relationships with the land and (2) traditional food systems. They described how settler encroachment infringed upon their subsistence way of living and introduced incongruent constructions of nature-culture relations (e.g., humans as distinct and separate from the natural world). Settler futurity is secured through the arrogation of territorial dominance coupled with physical or conceptual acts of erasure, placing Indigenous lives and lifeways at risk. One outcome of the disruption to Indigenous collective capacities is a dramatic increase in Indigenous suicide.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"73 1-2","pages":"267-279"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41188403","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":"Striving for safety, impact, and equity: A critical consideration of AJCP publications on formal youth mentoring programs","authors":"Matthew A. Hagler,&nbsp;Kristian V. Jones,&nbsp;Amy J. Anderson,&nbsp;Samuel D. McQuillin,&nbsp;Lindsey M. Weiler,&nbsp;Bernadette Sánchez","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12702","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12702","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this virtual special issue (VSI) we curate and reflect upon 22 articles on formal youth mentoring previously published in the <i>American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP)</i>. First, we provide historical context and highlight <i>AJCP</i>'s 2002 special issue on mentoring, which played an important role in establishing youth mentoring as a vibrant area of research. Next, we review and discuss findings from subsequent <i>AJCP</i> studies in three interrelated lines of inquiry: (1) the importance of facilitating high-quality mentoring relationships; (2) associations among youth's presenting needs, relationship quality, and outcomes; and (3) program practices leading to stronger, more impactful relationships. Throughout, we highlight and expand upon critical commentary from <i>AJCP</i> contributors, calling on the field to move away from paternalistic models that overly localize risk with youth and families without interrogating structural oppression. Our recommendations include: (1) centering critical consciousness, racial equity, and social justice in program curricula and mentor trainings; (2) respectfully engaging grassroots programs developed for and by communities of color that are underrepresented in research; (3) making meaningful efforts to recruit mentors from marginalized communities and removing barriers to their participation; and (4) examining youth's racial, ethnic, and other areas of identity development processes during mentoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"258-270"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41108826","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":"Narrative change for health equity in grassroots community organizing: A study of initiatives in Michigan and Ohio","authors":"Krista A. Haapanen,&nbsp;Brian D. Christens,&nbsp;Paul W. Speer,&nbsp;Hannah E. Freeman","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12708","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12708","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To achieve health equity, there is a need to act on the social determinants of health. This reality is now understood more widely, and in greater detail, than ever. Amid this movement toward health equity, there has been a natural gravitation to community organizing, which has long worked to produce more equitable systems and policies. Community organizing builds power through cycles of listening, participatory research, collective action, and reflection. One manifestation of this power is that organizing initiatives can often influence which issues are up for public debate, and the terms of those debates. This dimension of community power is often described by practitioners as <i>narrative change</i> work, and involves intervening on, complicating, and resisting dominant societal narratives that hinder action on the systems that perpetuate inequity. This article reports results from a study of organizing initiatives in Detroit, MI and Cincinnati, OH which both engaged in intentional narrative change work around health and health equity. We analyzed data from interviews with 35 key leaders across both cities. Results describe the organizational processes and activities taking place in both sites, with an emphasis on one issue in each city: educational equity in Cincinnati and water equity in Detroit. We then use coded interview data to examine how narrative change work took place in organizing around these issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, a challenging time for organizing initiatives. Results provide insights into adaptations taking place in community organizing during this time, as well as various approaches to narrative change work as part of holistic efforts to build and exercise community power to alter social determinants of health.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"73 3-4","pages":"390-407"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41095019","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":"From parts to whole: Embracing systems science in community psychology","authors":"Jennifer A. Lawlor,&nbsp;Kyle R. Metta","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12711","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12711","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With our field's strong focus on context for understanding and acting on social problems, community psychologists have frequently elevated the importance of employing systems thinking and methods that help us to understand systems more effectively. As a result, community psychologists have adopted some methods from the interdisciplinary field of systems science. In this virtual special issue, we will compare how several of these approaches have been used in publications in the AJCP in the last 50 years. We identify differences in their popularity, implementation with communities, and how they create generative discussion in the field. We conclude by looking to the future to explore ways community psychology can deepen engagement with methods from systems science.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"366-377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41102821","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":"Mixed methods in community psychology: A values-forward synthesis","authors":"Shabnam Javdani,&nbsp;Sadie E. Larsen,&nbsp;Nicole E. Allen,&nbsp;Allyson M. Blackburn,&nbsp;Breana Griffin,&nbsp;Agnes Rieger","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12703","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12703","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mixed methods research (MMR) combines multiple traditions, methods, and worldviews to enrich research design and interpretation of data. In this virtual special issue, we highlight the use of MMR within the field of community psychology. The first MMR studies appeared in flagship community psychology journals over 30 years ago (in 1991). To explore the uses of MMR in the field, we first review existing literature by identifying all papers appearing in either <i>Journal of Community Psychology</i> or <i>American Journal of Community Psychology</i> in which the word “mixed” appeared. A total of 88 publications were identified. Many of these papers illustrate the pragmatic use of MMR to evaluate programs and to answer different research questions using different methods. We coded articles based on Green et al.'s classifications of the purpose of the mixing: triangulation, development, complementarity, expansion, and initiation. Complementarity was the most frequently used purpose (46.6% of articles), and nearly a quarter of articles mixed for multiple purposes (23.86%). We also coded for any community psychology values advanced by the use of mixed methods. We outline three themes here with corresponding exemplars. These articles illustrate how MMR can highlight ecological analysis and reconsider dominant, individual-level paradigms; center participant and community member experiences; and unpack paradoxes to increase the usefulness of research findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"355-365"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41095639","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":"Race matters in addressing homelessness: A scoping review and call for critical research","authors":"Molly K. Richard","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12700","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12700","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Structural racism contributes to homelessness in the United States, as evidenced by the stark racial disparities in who experiences it. This paper reviews research at the intersections of race and homelessness to advance efforts to understand and address racial inequities. Part 1 offers a synthesis of homelessness research from the 1980s to 2015, where several scholars examined the role of race and racism despite mainstream efforts to present the issue as race-neutral. Part 2 presents the results of a systematic scoping review of research at the intersections of race and homelessness from 2016 to 2021. The 90 articles included demonstrate a growing, multidisciplinary body of literature that documents how needs and trajectories of people experiencing homelessness differ by race, examines how the racialized structuring of society contributes to homelessness risk, and explores how programs, policies, and grassroots action can address inequities. In addition to charting findings and implications, included studies are appraised against research principles developed by Critical Race Theory scholars, mapping the potential of existing research on race and homelessness to challenge racism.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"464-485"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10228778","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":"Erratum to “Relationship of perceived neighborhood danger with depression and PTSD among veterans: The moderating role of social support and neighborhood cohesion”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12699","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12699","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Galovski, T. E., Rossi, F. S., Fox, A. B., Vogt, D., Duke, C. C., &amp; Nillni, Y. I. (2023). Relationship of perceived neighborhood danger with depression and PTSD among veterans: The moderating role of social support and neighborhood cohesion. &lt;i&gt;American Journal of Community Psychology&lt;/i&gt;, 71, 395–409. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12655&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The authors discovered that the independent contracted survey vendor employed to field this survey had inadvertently included duplicate surveys in the deidentified data set that was provided to the authors. This error resulted in 107 duplicated cases being included in the analysis for this paper. We have identified and removed the duplicates from the data sets and the analyses have been conducted with the corrected data set. The manuscript (text, tables, and figures) has been revised to reflect the correct sample size and values accordingly and the changes in the tables and figures are also included here. The text in the Method section that describes the sampling strategy and the new sample sizes for the model is corrected as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“After accounting for nondeliverable and duplicate addresses (&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; = 10,822, 39%), 17,178 veterans were invited to participate (67.6% high crime, 32.4% not high crime), and 3544 veterans enrolled in the study (21% response rate overall; 20% response rate high crime; 22% response rate not high crime). An analysis of the zip codes used by respondents found the FBI crime index was 99 for the not high crime group, indicating average crime levels matched the national crime average. The high crime group had a mean FBI crime index of 323, indicating crime levels 3.23 times higher than average. Participants with missing data on any of the study variables were excluded from analyses (513 participants). Thus, the total sample consisted of 3031 participants, of which 2090 (69.0%) were trauma-exposed and 1517 (51.0%) were women.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Additionally, all depression models included trauma exposure, and the interactions of trauma exposure with any variables included in interaction terms as predictors of mental health outcomes. Trauma exposure was not examined in the PTSD moderation models because they were conducted on only those veterans (&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; = 2090) who reported experiencing a DSM-5 Criterion A stressor to which they anchored their PCL. Depression moderation models included everyone who completed the PHQ-9 (&lt;i&gt;n&lt;/i&gt; = 2942), with &lt;i&gt;N&lt;/i&gt; = 3031 across both PTSD and depression models.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This error did not influence the study's main findings. We did find that the three-way interaction between neighborhood cohesion, perceived neighborhood danger, and trauma exposure approached significance after the application of the Bonferroni test. This change is noted in the Results section as follows: Tables 1–4.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“RQ3a: Does neighborhood cohesion mitigate the effects of perceived neighborhood danger on Veterans' depressive symptoms? See Table 3, Model 2 for all main and ","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"504-510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajcp.12699","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10085911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contextualizing black emerging adults' perceptions of neighborhood quality","authors":"Kayla J. Fike,&nbsp;Jacqueline S. Mattis","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12704","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12704","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ways in which Black emerging adults perceive and evaluate their neighborhoods may be impacted by a host of social and political factors that interplay with their social identities, the social identities of other urban residents, and their time in the area. Early literature on Black emerging adults' perceived neighborhood quality (PNQ) tended to make comparisons to White people and to focus disproportionately on the perceptions of low-income Black people residing in predominately racial/ethnic minority and underresourced communities. Subsequent work on subjective neighborhood assessment has considered specific features of neighborhoods, such as safety or disorder, but a general sense of the quality of one's neighborhood features is still underexplored. The current study adapts Connerly and Marans' (1985) PNQ model to explore the relations between social identities and locations, neighborhood sociostructural features, time in the area, and PNQ among Black urban-residing emerging adults. Block-wise regression results suggest that education and partner status were associated with PNQ. Perceptions of the percentage of Black neighbors and Census Bureau proportions of residents in the zip code who are poor were also associated with PNQ. Length of residence in the neighborhood was marginally associated with PNQ while length of residence in the city/town was not significantly associated with PNQ. For young Black women, combined household income was marginally associated with PNQ, but neighborhood sociostructural features were the strongest contributors to PNQ. In contrast, education was the only significant contributor to PNQ for young Black men. We discuss the ways that the social positions of young Black residents and their neighbors may impact their experiences and evaluations of urban areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"409-427"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10139788","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":"Project DREAM: Iterative development of an afterschool program with an emphasis on youth–adult relationships","authors":"Noelle M. Hurd,&nbsp;Janelle Billingsley","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12701","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12701","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The current manuscript describes the iterative development of an afterschool intervention aimed at fostering supportive relationships between adolescents and adults from their everyday lives. Project DREAM (Developing Resourcefulness, Engagement, Acceptance, and Mentoring) is a novel afterschool preventive intervention aimed at promoting youths' improved academic outcomes via gains in social and emotional development and their connectedness with nonparental adults. The purpose of the iterative development process was to improve the intervention to make it maximally usable and acceptable to the intended users and participants. The iterative development process was informed by data collected from advisory boards, focus groups, interviews, and observations of program sessions. In the current article, we describe the methods implemented as part of this process and fully describe the resulting intervention revisions completed across the 2-year period. We also summarize lessons learned.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"395-408"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajcp.12701","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10407306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social isolation and loneliness in family caregivers of people with severe mental illness: A scoping review","authors":"Ziyao Guan,&nbsp;Abner Weng Cheong Poon,&nbsp;Anthony Zwi","doi":"10.1002/ajcp.12698","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajcp.12698","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Family caregivers of people with severe mental illness (SMI) have been increasingly observed to experience social isolation and/or loneliness (SI/L) which are risk factors for ill health. This scoping review aimed to map existing evidence and identify knowledge gaps in studies on SI/L in this population using the Arksey and O'Malley's framework. Parallel searches (2011–2021) conducted in 10 databases identified 51 publications from 18 countries fully meeting the inclusion criteria. Over half of the included studies were quantitative. We found that the definition of loneliness reached a consensus, while the definition of social isolation varied across studies. Risk factors and correlates of SI/L were grouped into sociodemographic factors, illness-related factors, health and wellbeing, and stigma. The evidence showed a lack of comprehensive measurements assessing SI/L, few longitudinal studies, and little knowledge of interventions specifically addressing SI/L. Future studies are recommended to address these knowledge gaps and explore effective interventions on SI/L in family caregivers of people with SMI.</p>","PeriodicalId":7576,"journal":{"name":"American journal of community psychology","volume":"72 3-4","pages":"443-463"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajcp.12698","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9975187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}