Children who experience trauma may experience negative health and educational outcomes. Teachers are critical stakeholders in trauma-informed schools and are tasked with recognizing and responding to the needs of students who experience trauma. However, teachers face barriers to implementing trauma-informed practices, including high levels of stress and lack of preparation. This article describes training embedded in an urban teacher preparation program aimed at increasing the trauma knowledge and skills confidence of teacher candidates. Findings suggest the training helped teacher candidates increase knowledge and skills and met stated needs. Recommendations for future research and implications for teachers and teacher educators are discussed.

This study examines the relationship between minority stressors such as internalized biphobia (modified short form of the Lesbian Internalized Homophobia Scale) and internalized racism (Appropriated Racial Oppression Scale), respectively, to body satisfaction (Body Areas Satisfaction Scale) when mediated by body surveillance (Body Surveillance subscale of the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale) of 292 plurisexual women of color (P-WOC). In addition, it explores any significant differences between internalized racism, internalized biphobia, body satisfaction, and body surveillance between racial/ethnic groups. Results indicated that internalized racism and internalized biphobia, respectively, were significant predictors of body dissatisfaction in the mediated model for P-WOC. Results also revealed that the mean score for internalized racism for the Black/African American participants was significantly different from the mean score of the Asian/Asian American participants. Findings of the study show that participants who experience high levels of internalized racism/biphobia are also more likely to be dissatisfied with their bodies. Results of this study expand on the limited current literature on P-WOC. Public Significance StatementThis study found that the internalized biphobia and internalized racism that plurisexual women of color (P-WOC) experience are both associated with increased surveillance and dissatisfaction in their bodies. These findings expand the literature on P-WOC and highlight the need for further research on reducing factors of discrimination to improve P-WOC's mental wellbeing.

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