Identifying the Mental Health Profiles of Black Adolescents Who Experience School Policing and School Discipline: A Person-Centered Approach

Publication Year
2022

Type

Journal Article
Abstract

Educational environments that are structured by race perpetuate poor mental health for Black adolescents. This empirical relationship is pronounced when it is examined through Racial Battle Fatigue theory, which provides a framework that links educational environments and poor psychological health of Black students. School police have a major effect on Black adolescents’ educational and health experiences and trajectories. The purpose of this person-centered study was to assess the risk of Black students’ depressive symptoms who were stopped by school police, saw other students stopped by school police, or experienced school discipline.

Journal
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume
61
Issue
8
Pages
1034-1040