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Exploring Psychological Safety in Racially/Ethnically Diverse School Mental Health Teams 

Awardees: Sara Chung, PhD., UC San Francisco, and Yesenia Mejia, PhD. UC San Diego 

Co-Investigator(s): Lauren Haack, PhD., Lauren Brookman-Frazee, PhD., and Linda Pfiffner, PhD. 

Specific Aims 

  1. Measure observed team psychological safety in diverse school mental health (SMH) teams with Asian American (AA) and Latin* caregiving team members. 
  2. Examine the convergent and predictive validity of the psychological safety observational measure (PSOM) in diverse SMH teams implementing an Evidence-based theory (EBT). 
  3. Examine qualitative data on caregiving team members’ perception of psychological safety in SMH teams to contextualize results. 

* In this study, we use Latin* as equivalent for other terms such as Hispanic Hispanic, Latino/a, Latinx, and Latiné, with the understanding that Latin* has evolved into a term that is inclusive of the intersectionality elements of social identity (Salinas, 2020). Salinas, C. (2020). The Complexity of the “x” in Latinx: How Latinx/a/o Students Relate to, Identify With, and Understand the Term Latinx. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 19(2), 149-168.