Resistance and restoration: Healing research methodologies for the global majority.

Abstract

Objectives: Recently, research has focused both on the influence of institutional racism and how the Global Majority, which includes Black, Indigenous and People of Color, heal from processes related to racial and other forms of oppression. We propose a framework of healing research methodologies that is situated within emerging diversity science trends. This framework specifically is designed to apply diversity science principles to develop research that is culturally relevant and can help explain intragroup processes related to healing from institutional racism. Methods: Drawing from the diversity science, liberation and critical research methodologies, and psychological healing practices literature, we propose a healing research methodologies framework. Results: The healing research methodologies framework consists of six critical components: maintains social justice ethics, adopts liberation methodologies, implements healing methods, embraces interdisciplinary approaches, catalyzes action, and promotes community accessibility. Conclusions: We offer recommendations to guide future diversity science healing research. Public Significance StatementCombining the disparate threads of existing literature on psychological healing practices, we created a healing research methodologies framework to address systems of harm that disproportionately impact the Global Majority, which includes Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the United States. This framework extends diversity science through a strengths-based approach to uplift these communities and offers suggestions for its implementation to promote resistance and restoration through research.

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Future Directions on BIPOC Youth Mental Health: The Importance of Cultural Rituals in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…A. Lee et al, 2021). This research is pressing given the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on global prevalence of psychopathology among children and adolescents, whose symptoms of anxiety and depression have significantly exacerbated (Racine et al, 2021).…”

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