Social Media, Violence, and Social Isolation Among At-Risk Adolescents: Exploring Ground Truth It is expected that early childhood maltreatment experiences will be associated with alterations in the methylation profile of genes involved in the major stress system and that these epigenetic changes will be associated with increased reactivity to social context in adolescents. This investigation examines adolescent in vivo emotion reactivity as related to social context in the real world during the high-risk post-discharge period for adolescents hospitalized for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. This investigation involves the rich in vivo assessment of social context and physiological responses in the 2 weeks post trauma as related to development of symptoms of posttraumatic stress in trauma exposed adolescents.īiomarkers, social, and affective predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents Understanding the Interplay of Social Context and Physiology on Psychological Outcomes in Trauma-Exposed Adolescents Nugent is the Principal Investigator (PI) or Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI) for: In addition to serving as a CoInvestigator and collaborator on a number of projects with colleagues at Brown University and around the country, Dr. Nugent is involved in a number of exciting investigations aimed at disentangling the neurobiological and enviromental factors that contribute to stress sensitive disorders across the lifespan. What results is a portrait of Irishness as a dynamic, complex force in the history of American racial consciousness, pertinent not only to contemporary immigration debates but also to the larger questions of what it means to belong, what it means to be American.Dr.
Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensions of Irish-American identity by examining three distinct Irish cohorts in Greater New York: assimilated descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants “white flighters” who immigrated to postwar America and fled places like the Bronx for white suburbs like Yonkers in the 1960s and 1970s and the newer, largely undocumented migrants who began to arrive in the 1990s. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community’s interaction with other racial minorities. from the 19th century to the present day.
Patrick’s Day? Who’s Your Paddy traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St.
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