Youth mental health: Racial trauma and stress
What are the largest threats to mental health facing modern teens? And how can parents, educators, and other adults help them thrive despite their challenges?
On this episode of School’s In, hosts Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope welcome Assistant Professor Farzana (Saleem) Adjah to discuss racial trauma and stress and the effect that it has on student mental health. Adjah covers several relevant topics, including:
How trauma and racial bias shows up in schools
How educators can adopt a culturally-responsive, trauma-informed lens when interacting with students
What research-backed, group-based…
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