Workshop: Race, Risk, and Resilience among Black Youth in the United States and South Africa: Conceptual, Methodological, and Application Considerations

这是一项支持将在2012年国际心理学大会（ICP）会议（2012年7月22日至27日，南非开普敦）上举行的研讨会和讲习班的建议。该项目的目标是促进围绕概念和方法问题的跨国讨论和合作，研究黑人青年的风险和复原力过程。 是什么让这个项目如此重要和及时的是，它包含了，实际上取决于，南非和北美背景的自然跨文化比较。研讨会的重点是审查和传播与风险和恢复力有关的种族心理过程的专家知识，在南非，黑人代表大多数人口，而美国，黑人是少数民族。研讨会的拟议结构包括南非和美国的学术报告，由来自南非和美国的专家学者领导的小组回应和听众讨论。会议开始时将介绍小组成员和演讲者，并概述会议中要解决的问题。 其中包括：（1）为什么弹性是一个重要的和有意义的结构，在南非和美国的背景下研究黑人青年;（2）重要的概念，上下文，和文化因素在理解这些设置的弹性;以及（3）美国和南非背景下的学者和专业心理学家在研究种族、风险、和复原力，并利用知识促进青年取得积极成果。研讨会包括初级和高级学者的组合，他们将分别简要介绍与风险和复原力过程相关的研究。来自南非和美国的学者小组将向演讲者提出关键问题和评论，并鼓励观众围绕概念化，研究和应用有关风险和弹性的知识对黑人青年人口的考虑和挑战进行互动讨论。 值得注意的是，这包括讨论各国情况的相似之处和差异。我们的目标是，在会议结束时，参加会议的学者将有一套明确的理论和研究问题，与南非黑人和美国青年的风险和韧性的研究。本次研讨会具有相当大的学术发展潜力和贡献的多学科文献的心理弹性过程中的黑人人口在多个生活领域（例如，教育，心理健康和生活满意度，健康，政治赋权），潜在的扩展到其他群体经历的历史结构和社会压迫，严格的示范和多种理论和方法的方法的检查，以及对生活结果和黑人人口的调整背景的影响和相互作用的系统检查。该项目明确关注复原力奖学金的应用和使用，这对围绕改变风险环境以更好地支持积极的青年成果的理论和方案努力产生了广泛影响。

This a proposal to support a symposium and workshop to be held at the 2012 International Congress of Psychology (ICP) Conference (July 22-27, 2012, in Cape town, South Africa). The goal of the project is to promote cross-national discussion and collaboration around conceptual and methodological issues in studying risk and resilience processes among Black youth. What makes this project so important and timely is that it incorporates, indeed hinges upon, a natural cross cultural comparison of South African and North American contexts. The symposium is focused on review and dissemination of expert knowledge of race-related psychological processes related to risk and resilience in South Africa where Blacks represent the majority population and the U.S., where Blacks are a minority population. The proposed structure of the symposium includes scholarly presentations by South Africa-based and U.S.-based scholars and panel response and audience discussion led by expert scholars from South Africa and the United States. The session will begin with an introduction of panelists and presenters and an overview of the issues to be addressed in the session. This includes the following: (1) why resilience is an important and meaningful construct to study among Black youth in South African and American contexts; (2) important conceptual, contextual, and cultural considerations in understanding resilience across these settings; and (3) what scholars and professional psychologists in U.S. and South African contexts can learn from one another about studying race, risk, and resilience and using knowledge to promote positive youth outcomes. The symposium includes a mix of junior and senior scholars who will each give brief presentations of research related to risk and resilience processes. A panel of scholars from South Africa and the U.S. will pose critical questions and comments to the presenters and encourage audience interactive discussion around considerations and challenges in conceptualizing, studying, and applying knowledge about risk and resilience to Black youth populations. Notably, this includes a discussion of the parallels and divergence across national contexts. The goal is that by the end of the session, scholars participating in the session will have a set of articulated theoretical and research questions related to the study of risk and resilience among Black South African and American youth. This symposium has considerable potential for scholarly development and contributions to multi-disciplinary literatures on psychological resilience processes among Black populations in multiple life domains (e.g., education, psychological well-being and life-satisfaction, health, political empowerment), potential extensions to other groups experiencing historical structural and social oppression, the rigorous demonstration and examination of multiple theoretical and methodological approaches, and the systematic examination of context effects and interactions among contexts on the life outcomes and adjustment of Black populations. The project's explicit attention to the application and use of scholarship on resilience represents broad impact in both theory and programmatic efforts around changing risky contexts to better support positive youth outcomes.