Is ethnic and racial identity a potentiating or protective factor in the association between youth victimization and gang-joining? Distinguishing between exploration and affirmation
Is ethnic and racial identity a potentiating or protective factor in the association between youth victimization and gang-joining? Distinguishing between exploration and affirmation
Lucybel Mendez Ava R. Alexander Patricia K. Kerig a Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USAb Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USALucybel Mendez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Her research focuses on elucidating trajectories from traumatic experiences to behavioral and psychological wellbeing among marginalized/minoritized youth. Additionally, she examines socioecological processes of risk and resilience.Ava Alexander, M.S., is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of Utah, where she studies reciprocal associations between juvenile incarceration and trauma, as well as pathways to resilience among justice-involved youth. Prior to her doctoral studies, she served as a Program Coordinator for the Bellevue Juvenile Justice Mental Health Service in New York.Patricia K. Kerig, Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical Science at the University of Utah whose research focuses on identifying the underlying processes that account for the link between trauma exposure and youth involvement in the juvenile justice system. She also is active in developing and disseminating tools that promote resilience in the face of exposure to secondary traumatic stress.