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Stress paradigm logic model: intervention components strengthen coping and adult relationships that buffer effects of urban poverty on academic and emotional-behavioral outcomes.

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Description

The article's logic model, grounded in the stress paradigm, holds that exposure to environmental stressors predicts negative outcomes and that protective processes, particularly coping skills and supportive adult relationships, can mitigate these effects. As the article states, "components of the developing intervention are expected to strengthen coping strategies and relationships with adults in the lives of adolescent participants in ways that buffer against the deleterious effects of stressors". Relationships with adults are expected to foster adaptive coping, which further strengthens relationships, extending beyond mentors to improve relationships with teachers and parents and thereby impact student engagement, achievement, and school completion.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Intervention components must strengthen both coping strategies and relationships with adults so the two mechanisms reinforce each other

Constraints

  • The model is a theory of change; efficacy of the intervention had not yet been tested at the time of writing

Target Learners

  • low-income urban middle school youth

Learning Goals

  • academic engagement
  • academic achievement
  • school completion

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Grant, K. E., Farahmand, F., Meyerson, D. A., Dubois, D. L., Tolan, P. H., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Barnett, A., Horwath, J., Doxie, J., Tyler, D., Harrison, A., Johnson, S., & Duffy, S. (2014). Development of Cities Mentor Project: An Intervention to Improve Academic Outcomes for Low-Income Urban Youth Through Instruction in Effective Coping Supported by Mentoring Relationships and Protective Settings. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 42:3, 221-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2014.916586
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title Stress paradigm logic model: intervention components strengthen coping and adult relationships that buffer effects of urban poverty on academic and emotional-behavioral outcomes.
description The article's logic model, grounded in the stress paradigm, holds that exposure to environmental stressors predicts negative outcomes and that protective processes, particularly coping skills and supportive adult rela...
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