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Tailoring Supports To Youth In Schools: One Approach To Identifying Needs And Targeting Intervention, Tasha Henderson, Samantha Bates, Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Anthony Amorose, Erica Magier, Tarkington Newman

International Journal of School Social Work

Youth experiences intersect along their race, gender, language and socioeconomic status, schools must consider the intersectionality in order to improve outcomes. The current study sought to understand if, and to what extent, different clusters of youth in one large urban high school perceive their psychosocial behaviors as well as social and interpersonal skills. Cross-sectional survey data from 1,164 high school youth were collected using four valid scales: Internalizing Behaviors, Externalizing Behaviors, Peer Relationships, and Social Skills. The analytic strategy was twofold. Cluster analysis was used to form homogeneous clusters of the 1,147 complete responses based on a combination of race/ethnicity, …