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Understanding and addressing racial stress and trauma in schools

A pathway toward resistance and healing

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ID8091957
AuthorsFarzana T Saleem (0000-0001-9859-000X, Graduate School of Education Stanford University Stanford California USA, corresponding author), Tyrone C Howard (0000-0002-5502-1875, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles California USA), Audra K Langley (0000-0002-9469-0924, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles California USA)
Year2021
Volume59
Issue12
Pages2506-2521
Publication date2021-11-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychology in the Schools (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3085 • E-ISSN: 1520-6807
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/pits.22615
OpenAlexW3212844667
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited75

Youth of color are disproportionately impacted by stressful and traumatic life events, including race‐based experiences, which are linked to negative consequences. School is a salient context where youth encounter, witness, and process racial stress and trauma (RST). However, RST is often overlooked within general school‐based trauma models. Thus, we propose the School Trauma and Racial Stress (STARS) blueprint, focused on RST across three levels of the school ecology. By building upon and expanding the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration recommendations regarding trauma‐informed approaches (2014), the STARS blueprint applies a multilevel approach to acknowledging and addressing RST within schools. This integrated framework is a call to action across the school ecology, with the goal to increase recognition of RST within school‐based trauma‐informed approaches and to build racial equity and healing for students of color in K‐12 schools. Practical applications for schools are discussed

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