The Neighborhood Club: A Supportive Intervention Group for Children Exposed to Urban Violence

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Latina Mothers Awareness of Their Childrens Exposure to Community Violence

This study examines (a) the degree of agreement between mother-reported child community violence exposure and children\u27s self-reports and whether agreement changes over time; (b) whether child gender is associated with mother-child agreement; and (c) whether greater mother-child agreement is concurrently and longitudinally associated with children\u27s psychological well-being. We conducted secondary data analyses using longitudinal data with a socioeconomically diverse sample of 287 Latino adolescents (MageW2 = 11.2, 47% girls) and their mothers (MageW1 = 35.3) from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Mother-child agreement about non-exposure to violence was high. However, for violence-exposed children, mothers overestimated exposure in early adolescence and underestimated it in middle adolescence. Mothers had higher violence agreement scores with daughters than with sons. Greater mother-child agreement about witnessing community violence in early adolescence was associated with lower externalizing problems in early and middle adolescence. Agreement about children\u27s victimization was only concurrently associated with lower externalizing and internalizing behaviors in early adolescence. Developmental changes in adolescent disclosure and parental knowledge of children\u27s community violence may provide an important point of intervention for addressing the psychological sequelae of violence exposure in early adolescence

Inner-City Children's Exposure to Community Violence: How Much Do Parents Know?

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Does Neighborhood Belonging Matter? Examining School and Neighborhood Belonging as Protective Factors for Latino Adolescents

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A Bilingual “Neighborhood Club”: Intervening with Children Exposed to Urban Violence

Mental health practitioners have offered relatively little in response to the pervasive community violence faced by many children living in impoverished neighborhoods. The “neighborhood club” is a school-based, short-term, support group designed to assist children with the psychological impact of exposure to community violence. Ten “neighborhood clubs” were conducted in two public elementary schools in Detroit, Michigan. This paper reviews the implementation of a bilingual “neighborhood club,” undertaken to better serve the Spanish-speaking Latino students in a school community. We discuss many of the rewards and challenges of conducting a bilingual, multicultural support group for children and conclude that a bilingual support group provides all children with a model that validates ethnic and cultural diversity while also building empathic bonds based on mutually-reinforcing, common experiences.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42734/1/10464_2006_Article_9016.pd

Living in dangerous neighborhoods: The effects on poor, African-American single mothers and their children.

This dissertation investigated how families are affected by residing in dangerous, poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Specifically, the study explores the impact of neighborhood characteristics on the parenting behavior of single, African American mothers and on the academic values and socioemotional functioning of their adolescent children. Interview data from a sample of 262 poor, African American, single mothers and their seventh and eighth grade children was utilized. Assessments of neighborhood quality consisted of both subjective and objective measures. The objective neighborhood measures included police crime statistics and U.S. census data. In the first model, greater receipt of social support predicted higher levels of maternal nurturance and this positive relation between social support and nurturance was moderated by neighborhood conditions, for mothers of adolescent boys. As neighborhood conditions worsened, receipt of instrumental social support was no longer as strongly related to mothers' nurturant parenting. This finding was bolstered by its presence with four different indicators of neighborhood quality: mothers' subjective assessments of the neighborhood, rates of violent crime, neighborhood poverty rates, and percentage of female headed households in the neighborhood. More demonstrations of nurturant parenting were, in turn, related to healthy socioemotional functioning among adolescent males. An effect of neighborhood conditions on African American adolescents' educational values emerged in the second model after controlling for a host of family and school-related constructs. For African American female adolescents, those who resided in neighborhoods with lower median household incomes tended to view education as less important and less useful. Conversely, for adolescent males, neighborhood characteristics did not predict educational values. Additionally, twenty mothers participated in follow-up, qualitative interviews that further illuminated the quantitative results and provided detailed examples of how community violence strains family life. From these interviews, four strategies used by mothers to cope with pressing environmental dangers were identified: (1) withdrawal from the neighborhood, (2) vigilant parenting, (3) establishment of "open" relationships with their children, and (4) reliance on religious faith or beliefs.Ph.D.PsychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/104595/1/9542804.pdfDescription of 9542804.pdf : Restricted to UM users only

Parental gender differences in attitudes and willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19

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Resilience in low-income Filipino mothers exposed to community violence: Religiosity and familism as protective factors

Objective: This study examines the role of religiosity and familism values as moderators of the relation between past-year community violence exposure and psychological distress among low-income urban Filipino mothers. Method: Mothers (N = 116) of adolescents residing in three urban neighborhoods in the Philippines completed orally administered questionnaires measuring community violence exposure, religiosity, familism values, depressive symptoms, and anxiety. Results: A majority of the sample (83%) reported witnessing at least one instance of community violence, and about half (46%) reported being personally victimized at least once in the past year. After controlling for demographic variables, religiosity and familism significantly moderated the relation between community violence exposure and psychological distress, indicating their potential role as protective factors. Specifically, personal victimization and witnessing violence were associated with higher depressive symptoms at low and average levels of religiosity, but not at high levels of religiosity. In addition, personal victimization was associated with higher anxiety at low and average levels of religiosity and familism, but not at high levels of religiosity and familism. Conclusions: Our findings highlight the cultural significance of religious and family-oriented values in Filipino culture; these factors can be incorporated in health promotion and intervention efforts for low-income urban Filipino parents exposed to community violence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved

Socioenvironmental and individual correlates of psychological adjustment in low-income single mothers.

Examined relationships among psychological adjustment, levels of perceived and actual social support, and perceptions of childhood familial adversity among 52 low-income single mothers of preschoolers. Ss were interviewed regarding their childhood history and also made self-ratings of their ability to cope with finances, emotions, and household and child care responsibilities. Ss were also administered the Beck Depression Inventory, the MMPI, the WAIS-R, and the Social Network Form. Ss showing high levels of psychological adjustment tended to perceive their supports more positively, but often reported lower levels of support than did their more distressed counterparts. Perceptions of childhood familial adversity were the most powerful predictors of psychological adjustment

Does Family Structure Matter? A Comparison of Adoptive, Two-Parent Biological, Single-Mother, Stepfather, and Stepmother Households

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