Occupational Therapy's Role in Addressing the Mental Health of Black Girls: A Community-Engaged Program Implementation Project

Black children often experience increased toxic stress and anxiety as a result of systematic inequity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020), and although the disparities of Black children are often represented as a collective, Black girls face additional effects of gendered racism and stereotype threat (Morris, 2016).

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