scholarly journals Police killings of unarmed black Americans: a reassessment of community mental health spillover effects

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Justin Nix ◽  
M. J. Lozada
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Spillover Effects

scholarly journals Do police killings of unarmed persons really have spillover effects? Reanalyzing Bor et al. (2018)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Nix ◽  
M. James Lozada
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Population ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Black American ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Crowdsourced Data

We reevaluate the claim from Bor et al. (2018: 302) that “police killings of unarmed black Americans have effects on mental health among black American adults in the general population.” The Mapping Police Violence data used by the authors includes 91 incidents involving black decedents who were either (1) not killed by police officers in the line of duty or (2) armed when killed. These incidents should have been removed or recoded prior to analysis. Correctly recoding these incidents decreased in magnitude all of the reported coefficients, and, more importantly, eliminated the reported statistically significant effect of exposure to police killings of unarmed black individuals on the mental health of black Americans in the general population. We caution researchers to vet carefully crowdsourced data that tracks police behaviors and warn against reducing these complex incidents to overly simplistic armed/unarmed dichotomies.

scholarly journals Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study

The Lancet ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 392 (10144) ◽  
pp. 302-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Bor ◽  
Atheendar S Venkataramani ◽  
David R Williams ◽  
Alexander C Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Scale to Assess the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care (D-STAR)

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Loos ◽  
Reinhold Kilian ◽  
Thomas Becker ◽  
Birgit Janssen ◽  
Harald Freyberger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
German Version

Objective: There are presently no instruments available in German language to assess the therapeutic relationship in psychiatric care. This study validates the German version of the Scale to Assess the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care (D-STAR). Method: 460 persons with severe mental illness and 154 clinicians who had participated in a multicenter RCT testing a discharge planning intervention completed the D-STAR. Psychometric properties were established via item analysis, analyses of missing values, internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analysis. Furthermore, convergent validity was scrutinized via calculating correlations of the D-STAR scales with two measures of treatment satisfaction. Results: As in the original English version, fit indices of a 3-factor model of the therapeutic relationship were only moderate. However, the feasibility and internal consistency of the D-STAR was good, and correlations with other measures suggested reasonable convergent validity. Conclusions: The psychometric properties of the D-STAR are acceptable. Its use can be recommended in German-speaking countries to assess the therapeutic relationship in both routine care and research.

Community Mental Health: Promising or Delivering?

1976 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 705-706
Author(s):  
BONNIE SPRING
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health
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