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Diondre Also Has Bad Days: Cannabis Use And The Criminalization Of Black Youth, Rommel Johnson
Diondre Also Has Bad Days: Cannabis Use And The Criminalization Of Black Youth, Rommel Johnson
School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications and Presentations
Black, school-aged youth may experience socioeconomic, psychological, and emotional difficulties that affect their mental health, leading to maladaptive ways of coping, such as cannabis use. Instead of getting treatment and support to help them manage their stressors in positive ways, Black youth often receive punitive school practices, including referrals to the juvenile justice system. Counselors who work with school-aged youth are likely to encounter many Black youth and can thus either be instrumental to their psychological development or inadvertently impede their well-being with over-pathologization and criminalization of their cannabis use. In this article, the author reflects on a particular experience …
Emotion Regulation From A Virtue Perspective, Jeong Han Kim, Jina Chun, Jaeyoung Kim, Hyun-Ju Ju, Byung Jin Kim, Jeongwoon Jeong, Dong Hun Lee
Emotion Regulation From A Virtue Perspective, Jeong Han Kim, Jina Chun, Jaeyoung Kim, Hyun-Ju Ju, Byung Jin Kim, Jeongwoon Jeong, Dong Hun Lee
School of Rehabilitation Services & Counseling Faculty Publications and Presentations
Background
The ability to regulate one’s emotional state is an important predictor of several behaviors such as reframing a challenging situation to reduce anger or anxiety, concealing visible signs of sadness or fear, or focusing on reasons to feel happy or calm. This capacity is referred to as emotion regulation. Deficits in this ability can adversely affect one’s adaptive coping, thus are associated with a variety of other psychopathological symptoms, including but not limited to depression, borderline personality disorder, substance use disorders, eating disorders, and somatoform disorders.
Methods
The present study examined emotion regulation in relation to the virtue-based psychosocial …