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The Risk-Needs-Responsivity model indicates that effective interventions are tailored and responsive to individual factors. Yet, responsivity is the most underdeveloped principle of the model, and little is known about how to make responsive intervention programs for Black men in prison. To explore whether racial identity is a viable specific responsivity factor, the present study sought to (a) identify what racial identity profiles exist and (b) elucidate whether different racial identity attitudes manifest different scores on measures of criminal thinking and recidivism. Three hundred seventy-four Black men (M_age = 34.89, SD_age = 9.74) across 11 correctional facilities in the southern United States completed a demographic questionnaire, the Cross Racial Identity Scale, the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles, and the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire. Cluster analysis revealed five racial identity profiles (integrated, conflicted, self-hatred, low race salience, and anti-White). Participants with self-hatred and anti-White racial identity attitudes had higher criminal thinking and a greater risk of recidivism. Racial identity attitudes may be an important specific responsivity factor to consider in rehabilitation programs tailored for some Black men in prison. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Racism in the United States has constituted transgenerational legacies of trauma for people of African descent. Scholars have highlighted the immense emotional and psychological consequences of race-based traumatic stress; yet a complete understanding of the impact of historical trauma for African Americans is hampered by the lack of instrumentation for use in quantitative methodologies. We thus sought to develop psychometrically sound instruments to better understand impacts derived from the injury of enslavement and ongoing racial traumas and the resulting emotional impacts of historical losses due to racism. Data were collected from two samples during exploratory (N = 467) and confirmatory (N = 449) factor analysis phases of the development of two measures assessing historical losses and trauma responses, respectively. Historical Loss Scale items assess the frequency in which participants find themselves thinking about the history of societal, economic, and cultural devastation of racism. These items include emphasis on disintegrations of familial and community structures as well as losses associated with modern-day injustices. Trauma Response Scale items evaluate grief and trauma responses and feelings of empowerment and reclamation. Additional data were collected to examine evidence of construct and incremental validity. Implications for the use of the scales for research and psychological practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Dyadic synchrony, the alignment in time of partners' behavioral, physiological, and emotional processes, has often been related to better psychotherapy outcome. However, conflicting findings on this association have recently emerged. Drawing on the theory of flexible multimodal synchrony, we examined five different synchrony modalities to explore the role of flexibility in synchrony (FS), the fluctuations in synchrony over time, in the synchrony-outcome association. We computed synchrony and FS in body movement, facial expression, heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and electrodermal activity in 58 patients and their therapists during five preselected sessions during psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression. Patients reported their well-being before and after each session. The findings suggested that greater body movement FS predicted better session outcomes. Facial expression FS moderated the synchrony-outcome association, in that higher synchrony predicted better outcomes when FS was high and poorer outcome when FS was low. No effects were found for the physiological modalities. Group iterative multiple model estimation showed no significant associations between synchrony modalities at the sample level. These results appear to point to the independence of synchrony in different modalities and highlight the potential of behavioral FS in clarifying the synchrony-outcome association. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Parenting behaviors play a critical role in offspring's mental health and social adaptation during development. However, the transitions in parenting behaviors and their effects on adolescents' attachment insecurity and depression remain unclear, warranting further investigation. This study aims to examine the transitions in patterns of adolescent-perceived parenting behavior and the effects of these patterns on attachment insecurity and depression among adolescents. A total of 583 Chinese adolescents (58.0% girls; M_age at T1 = 15.50, SD = 1.58) participated in a three-wave longitudinal study spanning 15 months. We used random intercept latent transition analysis to explore the transition patterns of adolescent-perceived parenting behavior. The results identified six distinct parenting patterns: stable low involvement, stable warm acceptance, stable control, worsened control, reduced involvement, and reduced control and rejection. Adolescents' perceptions of parenting behavior patterns change over time, though half of these patterns remain stable during adolescence. Further analysis revealed that adolescents with the stable warm acceptance parenting pattern had the lowest attachment avoidance. In contrast, adolescents who belonged to the stable and the worsened control parenting patterns showed higher attachment anxiety and depressive symptoms. These findings highlight the importance for counselors and parents to recognize transitions in adolescents' perceptions of parenting behaviors. Targeted interventions, including fostering parental warmth, promoting appropriate involvement, and reducing overprotective parenting, may effectively alleviate attachment insecurity and depressive symptoms in adolescents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Reports an error in "How full is the glass? Examining the validity of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms-62 across five ethnoracial groups" by Fanghui Zhao, Jeffrey A. Hayes, Rebecca A. Janis, Pui-Wa Lei, Jonathan M. McClain, Carlomagno C. Panlilio, Louis G. Castonguay and Brett E. Scofield (Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2025[Apr], Vol 72[3], 240-257; see record 2025-78734-001). In the Results section, the fifth paragraph under the Exploratory Factor Analyses heading included errors in describing the results for African American/Black clients. "These items pertained to not making friends easily and being concerned that others 'do not like me,' with both items primarily loading on Body Dissatisfaction" should have read "These items pertained to satisfaction with one's body shape and weight, with both items primarily loading on Body Dissatisfaction." These errors did not affect follow-up analyses or interpretations. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2025-78734-001.) This study investigated various aspects of the validity of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms-62 for college student clients comprising five ethnoracial groups. The Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms-62 has demonstrated solid psychometric properties in previous studies; however, its accuracy for clients of color has received limited empirical attention. Using a sample of 307,685 clients at 137 college and university counseling centers, exploratory factor analyses were conducted for five ethnoracial groups (Asian American, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American, and White). Evidence of factor invariance across groups was generally strong, although several items did not have their primary loadings on expected subscales for multiple groups. Differential item functioning revealed that many of these items did not perform in a consistent manner across ethnoracial groups. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the overall factor structure of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms-62 fit well across the five ethnoracial groups. Clinical implications and directions for future study are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).