APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Rising to the Occasion: Utilizing Technology to Support the Racial Socialization Process for Black Youth 

Washington, DC · May 2025

Invited Symposium · Clinical Science

Session: Rooted & Rising: The Holistic Mental Health Journey of Black Youth Beyond Discrimination

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Abstract

Prolonged exposure to racial discrimination for Black youth leads to debilitating psychological outcomes. To help mitigate these consequences, parents utilize racial socialization (RS), or communication and strategies focused on racialized experiences. Developing varied mediums to facilitate RS processes are critical in a multi-media and hi-tech environment, thus, we will showcase interventions that yield healing for families, clinicians, and researchers alike.