Andrew Schrack-Walters

“Wanting to Feel Safe Was Unsafe”: A Qualitative Study of Black Men’s Perceptions of Mental Health and Resilience in the Context of Community Violence Exposure

Black men’s community violence exposure (CVE) is often framed through deficit-based lenses that obscure adaptation, meaning-making, and resilience. Using a qualitative descriptive design grounded in a social constructivist epistemology and guided by the Social Ecological Model, we conducted semi-structured interviews w...