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Civic engagement among adolescents: Spanish adaptation and validation of the civic engagement scale

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this research was to adapt and validate the Civic Engagement Scale (CES) developed by Doolittle & Faul for the Spanish adolescent population while providing empirical support for its psychometric properties. After administering the instruments to 965 adolescents from high schools, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to ...
Patricia Ayllón‐Salas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting radical healing to facilitate community capacity building among formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men with substance use disorders

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract 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 ...
Richmond E. Hayes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging and strengthening youth through international community‐based research: Implementation and evaluation of an International Youth Advisory Board

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Youth advisory boards are ubiquitous in community‐based research, yet there is limited description of their development or direct benefits to participants within international research contexts. This convergent mixed‐method study describes and evaluates the design and implementation of a bilingual International Youth Advisory Board (IYAB) of ...
Shelley L. Craig   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

“I never realized how hard recovery is.” A quasi‐experimental evaluation of a youth participatory action research project for opioid prevention

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Youth participatory action research (YPAR) has been effectively used for substance use prevention. Yet, YPAR has not been evaluated for opioids, which negatively impact individuals and communities across the United States. The current study evaluated an opioid‐focused YPAR project.
Elizabeth H. Weybright   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking the religious and social environment to sexual minority mental health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, mental health disparities persist between sexual minorities – people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or other nonheterosexual identifications – and heterosexuals. Although research shows that structural stigma in one's environment may contribute to such disparities, little research has examined religious ...
Nathan R. Todd   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the link between the risk of violent injury in adolescents and historic redlining practices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked with various contemporary community‐level disparities.
Samuel J. West   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections of Indigenous, racialized, and Global South practitioners and scholars on liberatory community wellbeing and mental health praxis: A qualitative study

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study explores how Indigenous, racialized, and Global South practitioners and scholars engage in liberatory praxis, drawing on decolonial theory and critical psychologies, to reimagine community wellbeing and mental health (CWMH) beyond Western‐based psychological frameworks.
Ramy Barhouche
wiley   +1 more source

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