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Trauma and US minority children and youth

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Pumariega, Andres J., Jo, Youngsuhk, Beck, Brent, Rahmani, Mariam·2022·Current Psychiatry Reports
DOI 10.1007/s11920-022-01336-1PMC PMC8918907
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Purpose of review This paper reviews the literature on the prevalence, risk factors, and effects of traumatic experiences on the mental health outcomes of minority youth in the USA.Recent findings The USA has an increasing number of children and youth from minority backgrounds. Research reveals that traumatic experiences disproportionately affect minority youth. These experiences include historical/generational trauma, immigration and acculturation stressors, natural and manmade disasters, experiences of discrimination, family violence, and community violence. The COVID-19 pandemic has also disproportionately affected minority youth resulting in illness and hospitalizations. Despite the higher incidence of trauma exposure, minority youth are less likely to access medical and mental health care. These disparities are resulting in increasing rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, substance use disorders, and suicide in minority youth. Recognizing and understanding the impact of trauma is critical to the healthy development and successful functioning of minority youth, and to the success of our nation.

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  • The high rate of PTSD symptoms suggests that students were experiencing multiple, and likely chronic, traumas and adversities.

    “This high rate of PTSD symptoms suggests that students were experiencing multiple, and likely chronic, traumas and adversities, consistent with historical and ongoing structural oppression that disproportionately affects minoritized youth in the U.S (Pumariega et al., 2022).”

    From Positive impacts of a universal trauma-informed intervention on student mental health: The Project POWER trial (2025) · cites this paper as Pumariega et al., 2022

    The Introduction describes minority youth’s exposure to multiple stressors, and the Conclusions link structural racism with cumulative traumatic stress. These passages support the broader context, but the review does not establish that the students in the citing paper experienced multiple or chronic traumas on the basis of their PTSD symptom rate. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Pumariega, A. J., Jo, Y., Beck, B., & Rahmani, M.
Affiliations
University of Florida Health (US)
Corresponding author
Rahmani, Mariam
ORCID
Venue
Current Psychiatry Reports
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-03-14
Volume
24
Issue
4
Pages
285-295
ISSN
  • 1523-3812 (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-1645
DOI
10.1007/s11920-022-01336-1
PMC
PMC8918907
OpenAlex
W4220870917
Cited by
122
References
93
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 45 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 3
FWCI
4.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Current Psychiatry Reports (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
Keywords
childhood trauma, minority youth, racial and ethnic disparities, immigration stress, acculturative stress, disaster exposure, discrimination, domestic violence, community violence, COVID-19 pandemic, mental health disparities, access to mental health care, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, youth suicide
MeSH terms
COVID-19, Adolescent, Child, Emigration and Immigration, Humans, Minority Groups, Violence, Pandemics

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