Maury Nation’s research while affiliated with Vanderbilt University and other places

... Initially, the WCSD-SECA was developed through a partnership between researchers and practitioners for children in the Washoe County School District in the United States [14,15]. Following its validation, the measure has been used to assess children's social-emotional competencies beyond the Washoe County School District within the United States [6,[16][17][18]. It has also been used to evaluate social-emotional competencies among Chinese children who had participated in a school-based social-emotional learning program in rural China [19]. ...

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Social–Emotional Competence among School-Aged Children in the Chinese Context: Validation of the Washoe County School District Social–Emotional Competency Assessment

... Throughout U.S. history, Black people have been the repeated targets of anti-Black violence perpetrated by White racist terrorists and state-sanctioned police officers (Wilson et al., 2023)-operating under the system and protection of White supremacy (Wendel et al., 2022). White supremacy is the ideological premise for the most infamous hate organization, the Ku Klux Klan, which began committing brutal crimes against Black people during the Reconstruction era (Anderson, 2020;Yankah, 2021). ...

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Tired of Being Tired: Black College Students’ Experiences of Racial Battle Fatigue From Highly Publicized Anti-Black Violence

... Throughout BTB's evolution, these community members have engaged young people and community musicians as co-leaders-empowering them to implement the program as staff or student teachers and guide programmatic decisions and growth. In contrast, academics and many funders continue to lament the research-to-practice gap and prioritize community implementation of "evidencebased programs," exerting a "pro-innovation bias" that discounts community programs who are not resourced to conduct rigorous evaluation and overvalues emergent, academic-designed programs (32,45). Even as a growing literature encourages community mobilization in youth violence prevention efforts, much of this work continues to overemphasize the adoption of evidence-based practices, narrowly characterizing community engagement as a strategy to mitigate implementation barriers (e.g., 46, 47, 48), rather than an opportunity for community experts to innovate solutions most relevant for their contexts and communities. ...

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“This Program Is Literally Saving Lives”: A Participatory Qualitative Study of Youth Outcomes in a Community-Based Music Program to Interrupt Violence

... Despite the WHA recognizing violence as a major public health issue over two decades ago, our study demonstrates that while there has been a proliferation of this approach internationally, this has predominantly been in recent years, with 82% of the frameworks identified published in the past decade. For many, the involvement of public health in the violence prevention agenda is a welcome one, particularly regarding its focus on primary prevention (Nation et al., 2021). However, for some, it represents public health "empire building" (Keithley & Robinson, 2000) or even part of a post-colonial agenda that embeds structural global inequality (Richardson, 2020). ...

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The role of public health in the primary prevention of interpersonal violence: A systematic review of international frameworks

... In the United States, communities targeted by structural violence bear a disproportionate burden of gun violence. Structural violence constitutes a system of power, made up of policies, institutions, and ideologies that hurt some individuals and groups while advantaging others (Farmer, 2004;Ho, 2007;Wendel et al., 2021). Structural violence in the U.S. has been targeted at minoritized communities, creating conditions for concentrated poverty, mass incarceration, and poorly funded schools (Alexander & West, 2012;Ewing, 2018;Muhammad, 2015). ...

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“Being Someone Who Can Buffer the Pains of Life”: Street Outreach Worker Perspectives on Supporting Youths’ Healing from Community Violence

... However, the literature has suggested that the educated population is critical for individuals to comprehend and appreciate the changing needs. It is expected that a large education population can help reduce the threat of terrestrial ecosystem destruction (Nation et al., 2020). Hence, age, gender, and education factors were not found to be either directly or indirectly used in terrestrial ecosystem destruction. ...

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The three-century journey so far: internal attribution factors influencing consumer solid waste disposal in terrestrial ecosystem destruction

... Numerous studies have identified connections among violence and HIV care outcomes, especially through the lens of the SAVA Syndemic theory (12)(13)(14)62). Additionally, while mental health is associated with HIV care outcomes (63)(64)(65)(66), less understood are links between violence and mental health among PLWH This study explored the bivariate relationships among various types of violence, mental health, and HIV care outcomes, though quantitative results should be interpreted with caution due to lack of multivariate analysis and small sample size. ...

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Violence experience among cis-gender women living with HIV in Atlanta, Georgia: impact on HIV-related health and their preferences for violence screening and support

... When violence occurs over a prolonged period and in stages, it inevitably leads to victims suffering physical and social injuries, which in turn affect their mental health. The most dangerous of the effects of bullying on mental health is the idea of suicide (Atkins et al., 2020;Gardella et al., 2020;Nixon et al., 2020;Rigby, 2022). The effects of bullying on mental health include decreased well-being, self-esteem, trust, interpersonal relationships, depression, anxiety, and the idea of suicide (Rezapour et al., 2022;Romano et al., 2020). ...

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The Urgency of Preventing Bullying in Schools: Systematic Literature Review Qualitative

... Despite the growing body of research on religion and well-being, significant gaps remain in understanding the relationship between Christianity and happiness, particularly in Thailand. These gaps include issues such as religious discrimination (Sugarman et al., 2018), the coexistence of diverse religious contexts globally (Francis et al., 2003), and the specific mental health benefits associated with Christianity in contemporary society (Francis, 1998;Lewis et al., 2000). The lack of comprehensive research in Thailand, often limited to specific religious communities (Abdel-Khalek & Lester, 2018), has resulted in a scarcity of robust, generalized evidence for academic reference (Singh et al., 2020). ...

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Happiness based on religion case of Christianity in Thailand: national survey

... Chambers [9] noted that for an agency to be created, the following factors are needed: relationships, structure, power, shared meaning, communication for change, motivations for decision-making and integration of these disparate concerns and paradoxes within the field. [10] further argued that understanding conceptual underpinnings and power balances goes a long way in understanding how planning can be conducted. In his book Contemporary Strategy Analysis, Grant [11] cited that planning is only successful if it necessitates a strategy that can respond to events positively or negatively with flexibility and clarity of direction. ...

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Reviewing the Role of Subnational Governance in Rural Development Planning: The Case of Zimbabwe