Sonyia Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 114419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonyia Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonyia |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6026-5401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender Dysphoria, Affirming Care, and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adults: Evidence from a Community-Based Sample
Development of the inventory of clinician attitudes about suicide prevention
Does One Size Fit All with the Black Church: Differences by Gender in Perceptions of Faith-Based Mental Health Services in the United States
Into Deep: Pinpointing and Profiling Disciplinary Excellence and Exemplary Performance in Texas Urban Schools
Typically, high disciplinary rates for Black students correspond with poor academic performance. However, is the opposite also true? This study sought to identify and investigate the characteristics of urban educational academic success by geospatially mapping schools in Texas that have assisted Black children toward high academic achievement while limiting their exposure to punitive disciplinary outcomes (suspensions). The study uncovers the geo…
De-siloing Federal Data Repositories with Care: Toward a Data Integration Ethical Framework
Making deep-structure adaptations: A community-engaged qualitative study for culturally adapting suicide prevention interventions for Black youth
Objectives : This study responds to the suicide crisis among Black youth populations by tailoring suicide interventions to meet their specific cultural needs. We obtained insight from community stakeholders about culturally adapting suicide prevention interventions for Black youth, using the Linking Individuals Needing Care intervention as an example. Method : Using a culturally adaptive qualitative design Process, we conducted a series of commun…
Teaching Note—Training MSW Students in Sector-Specific Macro Content: An Innovative Behavioral Health Leadership Initiative
Social work education has responded to the heightened demand for graduates as competent behavioral health practitioners. However, the preparation of social work graduate students for transitioning into leadership roles in behavioral health settings is limited. To enhance graduate students’ macrolevel competencies, specifically in behavioral health, a social work graduate program and a Medicaid managed care organization partnered to pilot an innov…
Factors Associated with Suicide Risk Behavior Outcomes Among Black High School Adolescents
The Capacity-to-Serve Model as a Data-Driven Process for Provider Capacity Management in Outpatient Community Mental Health
Relieving the Burden of Self-Reliance: Centering the Experiences of Black Women Graduate Students in Predominantly White Institutions
Research to explore the experiences of Black women graduate students in colleges and universities is limited despite the increased focus and prioritization of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, particularly at Predominantly White Institutions. This is problematic as Black women have the highest increases of graduate school attainment rates in the United States of all gender and racial/gender groups; yet, these settings are not equipped to …
Exploring Service Use Disparities among Suicidal Black Youth in a Suicide Prevention Care Coordination Intervention
Teachers’ Psychological Distress in North Carolina: An Analysis of Urban versus Non-Urban School Districts
Teachers experience a great deal of psychological distress. However, there is a gap in the literature concerning the difference between the distress of teachers working in urban schools versus those in non-urban schools. Thus, the present study utilizes data from the 2018 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey to conduct a statistical analysis of the agreeability differences between urban and non-urban teachers’ responses to constructs …
Acaletics ® and Predicting Mathematics Achievement With Racially Diverse and Economically Disadvantaged Students
Math programming that includes assessments to predict standardized mathematics scores can help evaluate student performance and growth during the academic year. ACALETICS ® is a highly interactive, culturally inclusive mathematics program that utilizes posttests as continuous comprehensive assessments to evaluate student mathematical knowledge. ACALETICS ® also seeks to mitigate demographic student factors that may influence outcomes. However, th…
Shamed into Action: The Historical Avoidance of Pursuing Anti-racist Educational Policies and Content in Social Work Education
Linguistic norms concerning issues of social injustice, racism specifically, vary by discipline. In this study, the authors used content analysis to examine discourse in the social work profession related to racism and anti-racist action. Our investigation found that the usage of forthright terms such as racism, white supremacy, and oppression in the description of social work courses, authoritative disciplinary statements, and educational standa…
Is the employment of school resource officers in high schools associated with Black girls’ discipline outcomes
In recent years, the media has highlighted the disrespectful and sometimes violent manner in which SROs respond to Black girls’ behaviors. Few studies question how SROs in schools might influence traditional school discipline outcomes such as suspensions for a double minoritized group (race and gender) such as Black girls. Leaning on the Black feminist framework of Intersectionality and QuantCrit and using the most recent data from the Office of …
Sexual minorities and teen suicide attempts in a southeastern state with prominent exclusionary policies
This study examines differences in suicide-related behaviors between heterosexual and sexual minority youth in a southeastern state with exclusionary policies. Furthermore, it seeks to further knowledge regarding risk factors for suicide attempts among sexual minority high school students. Utilizing the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, descriptive analysis tests, and logistic regression tests were conducted. Findings indicate that sexual min…
Social Workers and Urban School Discipline: Do We Need a Time-Out
Teachers’ Psychological Distress in North Carolina: An Analysis of Urban versus Non-Urban School Districts
Teachers experience a great deal of psychological distress. However, there is a gap in the literature concerning the difference between the distress of teachers working in urban schools versus those in non-urban schools. Thus, the present study utilizes data from the 2018 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey to conduct a statistical analysis of the agreeability differences between urban and non-urban teachers’ responses to constructs …
Is the employment of school resource officers in high schools associated with Black girls’ discipline outcomes
In recent years, the media has highlighted the disrespectful and sometimes violent manner in which SROs respond to Black girls’ behaviors. Few studies question how SROs in schools might influence traditional school discipline outcomes such as suspensions for a double minoritized group (race and gender) such as Black girls. Leaning on the Black feminist framework of Intersectionality and QuantCrit and using the most recent data from the Office of …
Social Workers and Urban School Discipline: Do We Need a Time-Out
The Capacity-to-Serve Model as a Data-Driven Process for Provider Capacity Management in Outpatient Community Mental Health
Shamed into Action: The Historical Avoidance of Pursuing Anti-racist Educational Policies and Content in Social Work Education
Linguistic norms concerning issues of social injustice, racism specifically, vary by discipline. In this study, the authors used content analysis to examine discourse in the social work profession related to racism and anti-racist action. Our investigation found that the usage of forthright terms such as racism, white supremacy, and oppression in the description of social work courses, authoritative disciplinary statements, and educational standa…
Social Workers and Urban School Discipline: Do We Need a Time-Out
Sexual minorities and teen suicide attempts in a southeastern state with prominent exclusionary policies
This study examines differences in suicide-related behaviors between heterosexual and sexual minority youth in a southeastern state with exclusionary policies. Furthermore, it seeks to further knowledge regarding risk factors for suicide attempts among sexual minority high school students. Utilizing the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, descriptive analysis tests, and logistic regression tests were conducted. Findings indicate that sexual min…
Shamed into Action: The Historical Avoidance of Pursuing Anti-racist Educational Policies and Content in Social Work Education
Linguistic norms concerning issues of social injustice, racism specifically, vary by discipline. In this study, the authors used content analysis to examine discourse in the social work profession related to racism and anti-racist action. Our investigation found that the usage of forthright terms such as racism, white supremacy, and oppression in the description of social work courses, authoritative disciplinary statements, and educational standa…
Is the employment of school resource officers in high schools associated with Black girls’ discipline outcomes
In recent years, the media has highlighted the disrespectful and sometimes violent manner in which SROs respond to Black girls’ behaviors. Few studies question how SROs in schools might influence traditional school discipline outcomes such as suspensions for a double minoritized group (race and gender) such as Black girls. Leaning on the Black feminist framework of Intersectionality and QuantCrit and using the most recent data from the Office of …
Relieving the Burden of Self-Reliance: Centering the Experiences of Black Women Graduate Students in Predominantly White Institutions
Research to explore the experiences of Black women graduate students in colleges and universities is limited despite the increased focus and prioritization of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, particularly at Predominantly White Institutions. This is problematic as Black women have the highest increases of graduate school attainment rates in the United States of all gender and racial/gender groups; yet, these settings are not equipped to …
Exploring Service Use Disparities among Suicidal Black Youth in a Suicide Prevention Care Coordination Intervention
Teachers’ Psychological Distress in North Carolina: An Analysis of Urban versus Non-Urban School Districts
Teachers experience a great deal of psychological distress. However, there is a gap in the literature concerning the difference between the distress of teachers working in urban schools versus those in non-urban schools. Thus, the present study utilizes data from the 2018 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey to conduct a statistical analysis of the agreeability differences between urban and non-urban teachers’ responses to constructs …
Acaletics ® and Predicting Mathematics Achievement With Racially Diverse and Economically Disadvantaged Students
Math programming that includes assessments to predict standardized mathematics scores can help evaluate student performance and growth during the academic year. ACALETICS ® is a highly interactive, culturally inclusive mathematics program that utilizes posttests as continuous comprehensive assessments to evaluate student mathematical knowledge. ACALETICS ® also seeks to mitigate demographic student factors that may influence outcomes. However, th…
Teaching Note—Training MSW Students in Sector-Specific Macro Content: An Innovative Behavioral Health Leadership Initiative
Social work education has responded to the heightened demand for graduates as competent behavioral health practitioners. However, the preparation of social work graduate students for transitioning into leadership roles in behavioral health settings is limited. To enhance graduate students’ macrolevel competencies, specifically in behavioral health, a social work graduate program and a Medicaid managed care organization partnered to pilot an innov…
Factors Associated with Suicide Risk Behavior Outcomes Among Black High School Adolescents
The Capacity-to-Serve Model as a Data-Driven Process for Provider Capacity Management in Outpatient Community Mental Health
Making deep-structure adaptations: A community-engaged qualitative study for culturally adapting suicide prevention interventions for Black youth
Objectives : This study responds to the suicide crisis among Black youth populations by tailoring suicide interventions to meet their specific cultural needs. We obtained insight from community stakeholders about culturally adapting suicide prevention interventions for Black youth, using the Linking Individuals Needing Care intervention as an example. Method : Using a culturally adaptive qualitative design Process, we conducted a series of commun…
Gender Dysphoria, Affirming Care, and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adults: Evidence from a Community-Based Sample
Development of the inventory of clinician attitudes about suicide prevention
Does One Size Fit All with the Black Church: Differences by Gender in Perceptions of Faith-Based Mental Health Services in the United States
Into Deep: Pinpointing and Profiling Disciplinary Excellence and Exemplary Performance in Texas Urban Schools
Typically, high disciplinary rates for Black students correspond with poor academic performance. However, is the opposite also true? This study sought to identify and investigate the characteristics of urban educational academic success by geospatially mapping schools in Texas that have assisted Black children toward high academic achievement while limiting their exposure to punitive disciplinary outcomes (suspensions). The study uncovers the geo…
De-siloing Federal Data Repositories with Care: Toward a Data Integration Ethical Framework
Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (5 works) · Suicide prevention (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works)