title: Culturally Grounded Stress Reduction and Suicide Prevention for African American Adolescents.
abstract: Suicide is an often-overlooked manifestation of violence among African American youth that has become more prevalent in the last two decades. This article reports on the process used to culturally adapt a cognitive-behavioral coping with stress prevention intervention for African American adolescents. We implemented this adapted school-based suicide prevention intervention with 758 African American 9th,10thand 11thgrade students at four high schools in a large Midwestern city. The findings presented are preliminary. The adolescents in this sample endorsed high levels of suicide risk, with females endorsing significantly more suicide risk than males. Those receiving the prevention intervention evidenced an 86% relative suicide risk reduction, compared to the standard care control participants. The presented model of adaptation and resulting culturally-grounded suicide prevention intervention significantly reduced suicide risk among African American adolescents. Clinical, research and policy implications are discussed.
authors: Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 60614.
authors: W LaVome
authors: WL
authors: Robinson
authors: Chicago, Illinois, 60611.
authors: Mary H
authors: MH
authors: Case
authors: Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 60614.
authors: Christopher R
authors: CR
authors: Whipple
authors: University of Chicago, Chicag, Illinois, 60637.
authors: Adia S
authors: AS
authors: Gooden
authors: Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 60614.
authors: Roberto
authors: R
authors: Lopez-Tamayo
authors: Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052.
authors: Sharon F
authors: SF
authors: Lambert
authors: Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 60614.
authors: Leonard A
authors: LA
authors: Jason
keywords: African American adolescents; Suicide prevention; culturally-grounded intervention