Resilient Roots
Principal Investigators
Project Summary
This pilot study will examine the feasibility and acceptability of combining racial socializationpractices with Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) to enhance outcomes for Black youth and their families to develop interventions to support parenting strategies that can promote positive racial socialization and racial identity for Black youth facing the combined effects of child abuse and neglect (CAN) and racial stress.
Aim 1: From a community-based participatory research framework (CBPR), engage community partners and assess acceptability of racial socialization (RS) procedures to augment TF-CBT for Black youth ages 10-15, as well as to inform study design, and implementation plans through focus groups with diverse stakeholders (youth, family, mental health clinicians) to inform Aim 2.
Aim 2: Evaluate the feasibility of a pilot randomized control trial (RCT) testing the combination of racial socialization and TF-CBT to improve coping, racial socialization, and to reduce mental health symptoms in Black youth with CAN histories.
Aim 3: Investigate whether TF-CBT leads to greater improvement in mental health symptoms for Black youth with CAN when augmented with racial socialization enhancements.