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Unveiling the role of residential care in care leavers' personal development and life outcomes
Discussion section, we highlight the importance of understanding care leavers' perceptions in relation to different life course stages. Implications for policy and practice in care and postcare are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:38661650 | DOI:10.1037/ort0000748 (Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry)
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yafit Sulimani-Aidan Netta Achdut Rami Benbenishty Anat Zeira Source Type: research

Child behavioral problems and parental adjustment: Family, interparental, and parent-child processes as simultaneous mediators
This study examined the associations of child behavioral problems with parental adjustment and whether family processes mediated such associations. Cross-sectional data were collected from the fathers, mothers, and class teachers of 186 kindergarten-aged children with special educational needs from Hong Kong, China (mean age = 61.6 months, and 136 of them were boys). Using questionnaires, parents reported their children's behavioral problems and their own adjustment and family processes. Meanwhile, class teachers rated children's behavioral problems. Multigroup analyses supported a mediation model that was invariant across...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Xiaomin Li Chun Bun Lam Kevin Kien Hoa Chung Source Type: research

Stepping into the future of behavioral health: Opportunities, challenges, and possibilities
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 25. doi: 10.1037/ort0000743. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo improve our practices of today and to overcome the problems that confront us at present, the behavioral health field must anticipate what the future is likely to bring. Such foresight is particularly important right now because of the changes and disruptions that have occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 3 years. We begin by recounting major developments in the mental health field since the founding of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) more than 70 years ago, including some firsthand experiences of the s...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ronald W Manderscheid Amy A Ward Source Type: research

Socially excluded young adult Israeli women's social activism: A new approach to promoting well-being
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 25. doi: 10.1037/ort0000759. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study explored the developmental trajectories and increased well-being of socially excluded young Israeli adult women participating in civic engagement peer groups. Twenty-one women participated in a qualitative longitudinal study design comprising 50 in-depth semistructured interviews at four assessment times. The interoperative phenomenological analysis approach revealed three main themes demonstrating a shift from survival to thriving. The first theme, "group connectedness," describes participants' positive feelings fro...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Irit Birger Sagiv Limor Goldner Yifat Carmel Source Type: research

Online xenophobia and mental health among Venezuelan migrant youth in Colombia: The interplay with "in-person" discrimination
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 11. doi: 10.1037/ort0000730. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEmerging research provides insights into migration-related cultural stress experiences and mental health among Venezuelan migrants; however, prior studies have not considered the critical distinction between online xenophobia and in-person discrimination. To address this gap, we assess the psychometric properties of an abbreviated version of the Perceived Online Racism Scale (PORS) with Venezuelan migrant youth and examine the interplay between online xenophobia, in-person discrimination, and mental health. Survey data were collected ...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 11, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Christopher P Salas-Wright Seth J Schwartz Mildred M Maldonado-Molina Brian TaeHyuk Keum Juliana Mej ía-Trujillo Mar ía Fernanda García Miguel Ángel Cano Melissa M Bates Augusto P érez-Gómez Source Type: research

Associations between interconnectedness, compassion, and participation in collective action for people with mental illness: A random-intercept cross-lagged panel modeling approach
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 4. doi: 10.1037/ort0000744. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study aims to prospectively investigate the relationships between interconnectedness, compassion, and participation in private and public forms of collective action for people with mental illness. Public form refers to collective action at the macrolevel such as large-scale protests and demonstrations going on in the communities. Private form refers to collective action happening at the microlevel that targets promoting awareness of social inequalities and positive changes among personal social circles, such as calling out ...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ben C L Yu Winnie W S Mak Amanda C M Fu Source Type: research

Using a strength-based approach to social work with minority groups: The case of at-risk young-adult Arabs in Israel
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 4. doi: 10.1037/ort0000746. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTSocial workers have a significant role in empowering clients to discover their own strengths as well as strengths in their environment and to achieve social justice on behalf of oppressed populations. The goal of this exploratory qualitative study was to broaden our knowledge on strength-based approaches in working with minority and collectivist societies via the perspectives of 20 social workers and 19 managers of social service organizations and departments who work with at-risk young-adult Arabs throughout Israel. Thematic analysis ...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yafit Sulimani-Aidan Maayan Ravid Haneen Elias Source Type: research

Differences and similarities between ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness links among diverse parents of color
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 4. doi: 10.1037/ort0000752. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTParents of color's critical consciousness development (understanding of and actions to redress societal inequalities) is an important yet understudied area, especially relative to the burgeoning literature on youth's critical consciousness development. As with youth of color, ethnic-racial identity, or the meaning and importance placed on one's ethnic-racial group membership, likely plays a notable yet complex role in parents' critical consciousness. Specifically, parents' participation in activities that engage them in the culture of ...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: N Keita Christophe Ariane Desmarais Lisa Kiang Shawn C T Jones Gabriela L Stein Howard C Stevenson Riana E Anderson Source Type: research