American Journal of Community Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Community Psychology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Spotlighting racism in schools: Teacher mentors and the mediating effect of school safety156
Practicing Hope: Enhancing Empowerment in Primary Health Care through Community‐based Participatory Research67
Youth sociopolitical development: A conceptual framework by racial and gender minoritized youth organizers53
Perceived safety in community and service settings among young adults experiencing homelessness: Differences by sexual and gender identity47
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Latino/a adolescents facing neighborhood dangers: An examination of community violence and gender‐based harassment27
Intrapersonal psychological empowerment: Assessing measurement invariance of the Brief Sociopolitical Control Scale for youth between LGBQ+ and non‐LGBQ+ youth of color20
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“A place to call home”: A process of liberation for Rohingya Refugees in the United States20
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Applying PVEST to identify the diverse coping and identity resources with which DACAmented and undocumented latine students navigate their journeys to and through higher education19
Neighborhood‐level predictors of African American and Latinx parents' ethnic–racial socialization19
Examining Support for University‐to‐Police Reporting Policies for Sexual Assault: The Role of Survivors’ Consent19
“Just because I have a medical degree does not mean I have the answers”: Using CBPR to enhance patient‐centered care within a primary care setting17
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A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic16
An evaluation of a rapid conversion to teleSANE in response to COVID‐1916
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Community sharing: Contextualizing Western research notions of contamination within an Indigenous research paradigm15
Building strength for the long haul toward liberation: What psychology can contribute to the resilience of communities targeted by state‐sanctioned violence14
Organizing a transnational solidarity for social change through participatory practices: The case of People Powered–Global Hub for Participatory Democracy13
Making the road caminando de otra manera: Co‐constructing decolonial community psychologies from the Global South13
Implementation beyond the clinic: Community‐driven utilization of research evidence from PC CARES, a suicide prevention program13
Examining civic engagement in ethnic minority youth populations: A literature review and concept analysis12
“Upheaval”: Unpacking the dynamic balance between place attachment and social capital in disaster recovery12
Viviendo con dignidad: Lived experiences of Latina immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence with housing in the US11
Mentoring and depressive symptoms of youth: Examining prospective and interactive associations with mentoring relationship quality11
Seguir adelante: A qualitative exploration of Latino farmworkers' work and nonwork resources11
A Pilot Evaluation of a Social Justice and Race Equity Training for Volunteer Mentors10
Older Neighbors and The Neighborhood Context of Child Well‐Being: Pathways to Enhancing Social Capital for Children10
Opportunity Reboot: A Community‐Based Evaluation Focused on Opportunity Youth10
“Roses have thorns for a reason”: The promises and perils of critical youth participatory research with system‐impacted girls of Color10
A grassroots antiracist program: The motivation and perceived growth of participants in a community‐based, intergroup dialogue program9
The role of housing stability in predicting social capital: Exploring social support and psychological integration as mediators for individuals with histories of homelessness and vulnerable housing9
The Substance and Circumstances of Race and Immigration Talk in High School Gender and Sexuality Alliances9
Parental political engagement and self‐efficacy: An exploratory study9
Fixes that Fail: A system archetype for examining racialized structures within the food system9
Distal supports, capabilities, and growth‐focused recovery: A comparison of Housing First and the staircase continuum of care9
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“My resistance melts away”: The role of mindfulness in supporting participatory researchers' efforts to share power with youth co‐researchers9
The mediating roles of optimism, loneliness, and psychological distress in the association between a sense of community and meaning in life among older adults8
Ecopsychosocial accompaniment: Cocreating with humility8
Validation of the Black Community Activism Orientation Scale with racially and ethnically diverse college students8
Statement on the effects of law enforcement in school settings8
The imperative to support Black youths in resisting low and limiting expectations8
What do recently housed young people imagine for the future of third places? Using game‐based inquiry to (re)imagine affirming, youth‐centered third places8
Contributions, missed opportunities, and future directions: A critical reflection on global climate change and environmental sustainability in AJCP over five decades8
Closing the equity deficit: Sustainability justice in municipal climate action planning in Waterloo region7
Community‐engaged crime prevention through environmental design and reductions in violent and firearm crime7
Perceived monoracism and psychological adjustment of multiracial adults: The roles of racially diverse contexts and creating third space7
Pride in our community: Reflecting on LGBTQ publications in the American Journal of Community Psychology7
Disability rights and empowerment: Reflections on AJCP research and a call to action7
CBPR Implementation Framework for Community‐Academic Partnerships7
Negative perceived context of reception and sociocultural resources on mental health among Hispanic and Somali adolescents7
“Being a team of five strong women… we had to make an impression:” The College Math Academy as an intervention into mathematics education7
Shards from the glass ceiling: Deconstructing marginalizing systems in relation to critical consciousness development7
Partnering with immigrant families to promote language justice and equity in education6
Using a modified version of photovoice in a European cross‐national study on homelessness6
“We're all about being together as a family”: Community sports program fosters newcomer immigrant girls' academic achievement, resilience, and coping6
The society for community research and action on a path toward conocimiento: From silences and statements to solidarities in action in U.S. community psychology6
Risk, race, and predictive policing: A critical race theory analysis of the strategic subject list6
The Roles of Settings in Supporting Immigrants’ Resistance to Injustice and Oppression: A Policy Position Statement by the Society for Community Research and Action6
The experience of migrant mothers of African origin in Spain: A human rights‐based approach to mental health6
Internalization of the model minority myth and sociodemographic factors shaping Asians/Asian Americans' experiences of discrimination during COVID‐196
Neighborhood Cohesion, Perceptions of Disorder, and the Geography of Women’s Fear of Crime in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya6
Think Big: A multinational collaboration to promote children's role as coresearchers in participatory research6
“Someday, I'll be an ancestor:” Understanding indigenous intergenerational connectedness through qualitative research to inform measure development6
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Supporting Transition Resilience Among Newcomer Groups (STRONG): Examining effectiveness and acceptability in urban public schools5
Complex systems and participatory approaches to address maternal health disparities: Findings from a system dynamics group model building project in North Texas5
Educating teachers toward immigrant empowerment and liberation in the United States and Chile: A funds of knowledge perspective5
“You get to understand we are all human beings”: Community solidarity initiatives as spaces of recognition, resistance, and change5
Identifying abolitionist alignments in community psychology: A path toward transformation5
Associations between land bank ownership and stewardship of vacant properties and crime, violence, and youth victimization in Flint, MI5
Can Photovoice foster the development of social support?5
Development of a Youth Civic Engagement Program: Process and Pilot Testing with a Youth‐Partnered Research Team5
Experiences of women farmworkers in Michigan: Perspectives from the Michigan Farmworker Project5
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Civic engagement training at a school for youth with a history of dropping out5
Bearing witness to structural violence against migrants and envisioning transnational solidarity5
Journey to wellness: A socioecological analysis of veterans in recovery from substance use disorders5
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“Give up your mic”: Building capacity and sustainability within community‐based participatory research initiatives5
Investing in Black LGBTQ+ liberation as white people: A call to action for community psychology5
A systems framework depicting how complex neighborhood dynamics and contextual factors could impact the effectiveness of an alcohol outlet zoning policy5
One of these things is not like the other: Predictors of core and capital mentoring in adolescence5
Mobilizing bystanders to address microaggressions in the workplace: The case for a systems‐change approach to Getting A (Collective) GRIP5
Native Spirit: Development of a culturally grounded after‐school program to promote well‐being among American Indian adolescents4
Strategies for monitoring mentoring relationship quality to predict early program dropout4
The politics of belonging in Alcoholics Anonymous: A qualitative interview study4
Imperial algorithms: Contemporary manifestations of racism and colonialism4
Being fractal: Embodying antiracism values in course‐based participatory action research4
Geographic and psychosocial correlates of homelessness or unstable housing among US veterans in the Midwest4
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Looking back, moving forward: 50 years of the American Journal of Community Psychology4
Examining the influence of group diversity on the functioning of community‐based participatory research partnerships: A mixed methods study4
Promoting justice through community‐based research: International case studies4
Social networks and violence victimization and perpetration among youth: A longitudinal analysis4
Structural barriers explain the link between negative community re‐entry experiences and motives for illegal behavior in street‐identified Black men and women4
Building blocks for a happy life: Longitudinal associations between early life income, mentorship and later well‐being4
From home to the streets: Can cultural socialization foster Latinx youths' social responsibility?3
Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action3
Cultural efficacy as a novel component of understanding linkages between culture and mental health in Indigenous communities3
Freedom dreaming in carceral spaces: Youth care workers' imagined alternatives to anti‐Black racism in residential facilities3
Racialization processes and depressive symptoms among pregnant Mexican‐origin immigrant women3
Looted artifacts and museums' perpetuation of imperialism and racism: Implications for the importance of preserving cultural heritage3
Kongera Kwiyubaka (rebuilding ourselves again): Culturally responsive and contextually relevant collective healing in post‐genocide Rwanda3
LET’s CONNECT Community Mentorship Program for Adolescents with Peer Social Problems: A Randomized Intervention Trial3
Relationship of perceived neighborhood danger with depression and PTSD among veterans: The moderating role of social support and neighborhood cohesion3
Leveraging community psychology to counter harmful policies and foster well‐being in migrant children3
Patterns of Community Violence Exposure among African American Adolescents Living in Low‐Resourced Urban Neighborhoods3
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The role of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in cultivating the next generation of social justice and public service‐oriented moral leaders during the racial reckoning and COVID‐193
Social ecological predictors and correlates of Latinos' IPV behaviors: A systematic review and critique of the research literature3
Patterns of alcohol use among middle school students in rural communities: Associations with community violence exposure3
Lessons learned from local vacant land management organizations for engaging youth in greening3
Place type or place function: What matters for place attachment?3
Algorithmic surveillance in the era of the mental health appsphere3
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Sense of community improves community participation in Chinese residential communities: The mediating role of sense of community responsibility and prosocial tendencies3
Paraprofessional Youth Mentoring: A Framework for Integrating Youth Mentoring with Helping Institutions and Professions3
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Mixed methods in community psychology: A values‐forward synthesis3
Neighborhood resources and stressors associated with parenting inputs for children's learning and development3
Youth engagement to achieve health equity: Are healthcare organizations and leaders prepared?3
Raced and risky subjects: The interplay of racial and managerial ideologies as an expression of “colorblind” racism3
Reflecting and rejuvenating our work, together: One team's consideration of AJCP publications on gender‐based violence3
Acknowledgement of Reviewers3
Cultural humility development in adults serving as mentors for youth: A qualitative evidence synthesis2
Perceived residential environment quality, emotional experience, and sense of community among the retired people in China2
Step by step: Anti‐Asian discrimination and bystander intervention2
Societal and community factors facilitating cultural adaptation and mental health of North Korean refugee women in South Korea2
Family closeness and bullying perpetration: The roles of associating with antisocial peers, bullying victimization, exposure to community violence, and gender differences among African American adoles2
Mentoring Children in Foster Care: Examining Relationship Histories as Moderators of Intervention Impact on Children’s Mental Health and Trauma Symptoms2
Perceiving fairness in an unfair world: System justification and the mental health of girls in detention facilities2
“I was already there once”: Cumulative attempt capital of marginalized women exiting substance use and street prostitution contributes to their recovery capital2
Toward decolonial community psychologies from Abya Yala2
Acknowledging bereavement, strengthening communities: Introducing an online compassionate community initiative for the recognition of pandemic grief2
Finding voice in a year of collective trauma: Case study of an online photovoice project with youth2
Informal supports, housing insecurity, and adolescent outcomes: Implications for promoting resilience2
“How does your residential environment positively or negatively influence your well‐being?”: A multicase photovoice study with public housing tenants2
Systematic Review of Cultural Aspects of Stigma and Mental Illness among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States: Implications for Interventions2
Exploring the needs of girls of color in the juvenile legal system: A latent class analysis2
Participatory Research Approaches with Youth: Ethics, Engagement, and Meaningful Action2
Applying a community‐engaged participatory machine learning model2
Trajectories and impact of White mentors’ beliefs about racial and ethnic discrimination in a formal youth mentoring program2
Community Psychology's abuse of empowerment to further a white supremacist agenda2
Culturally Responsive Practices: Insights from a High‐Quality Math Afterschool Program Serving Underprivileged Latinx Youth2
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Police, courts, and corrections: Experiences of procedural injustice among Black adults2
After the fire: An ecological, phenomenological exploration of resilience‐building following the Fuego volcanic eruption in Guatemala2
Future considerations for implementation and impact of community narrative initiatives2
Community participation and subjective wellbeing among the immigrant population in Northern Italy: An analysis of mediators2
Types of traumatic experiences and cultural values associated with posttraumatic stress in recently immigrated asylum‐seekers from Central America2
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Toward a moral reckoning on structural racism: Examining structural factors, encouraging structural thinking, and supporting structural intervention2
Implications of state policy context for the well‐being of immigrant families with young children2
Antiracist activism for immigrant rights and healthy coping: Initial evidence for a community‐based framework2
Striving for safety, impact, and equity: A critical consideration of AJCP publications on formal youth mentoring programs2
Perceptions of Mexican nationals on recent deportation experiences from the United States: A qualitative study2
Effects of Natural Mentoring Relationships on College Students’ Mental Health: The Role of Emotion Regulation2
Predictors of champion behaviors in an evidence‐based parenting program: A structural equation modeling approach2
A storyboarding approach to train school mental health providers and paraprofessionals in the delivery of a strengths‐based program for Latinx families affected by maternal depression2
Go‐along interview assessment of community health priorities for neighborhood renewal2
Community organizing during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How should we act when it comes to minority communities?2
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