Rajagopalan Adithi, Vaid Esha, Scheinberg Beck, Genaro Breana G, Wadsworth Martha E
The Pennsylvania State University, 140 Moore Bldg, University Park, PA, USA.
Identity (Mahwah, N J). 2025;25(2):216-226. doi: 10.1080/15283488.2024.2383750. Epub 2024 Aug 17.
Cultural identity affirmation, pride, and belongingness are known to protect youth from negative outcomes in the face of uncontrollable stress such as discrimination, economic hardship, and community violence. Scholars have argued that racial, cultural, and other social identities serve as important , encouraging active coping and the use of social support and mitigating the impact of stress for marginalized youth. The Building a Strong Identity and Coping Skills (BaSICS) program was designed to improve mental health by targeting the skills, assets, and resources known to protect against developing emotional and behavioral symptoms and disorders. In the BaSICS intervention, youth explore their cultural and social identities to strengthen their understanding of, and connection to, positively supportive social groups via exploration of family and community cultural heritage. Youth are then encouraged to engage their collaborative coping skills founded in their sociocultural identities, working together on a project of collective community action. This methodological paper will describe the theory and development of the BaSICS identity development and collective coping module.
文化身份认同、自豪感和归属感有助于保护青少年在面对诸如歧视、经济困难和社区暴力等无法控制的压力时免遭负面后果。学者们认为，种族、文化及其他社会身份起着重要作用，鼓励积极应对，促进社会支持的利用，并减轻边缘化青少年压力的影响。构建强大身份认同与应对技能（BaSICS）项目旨在通过针对已知能预防情绪和行为症状及障碍发展的技能、资产和资源来改善心理健康。在BaSICS干预中，青少年通过探索家庭和社区文化遗产来探究其文化和社会身份，以加强他们对积极支持性社会群体的理解及与之的联系。然后鼓励青少年运用基于其社会文化身份的协作应对技能，共同开展集体社区行动项目。本方法学论文将描述BaSICS身份认同发展与集体应对模块的理论及发展情况。
