![]() This research complements and broadens the knowledge base about school connectedness by adding the perspectives of child and adolescent psychiatrists on the elements of school connectedness and including cultural connectedness as an element of school connectedness. The youth mental health crisis experienced by AI communities (Ersan & Rodriguez, 2021) and the near silence in the literature on the positive associations between school connectedness and AIs (Hussain et al., 2018) make this study critically important. ![]() ![]() Moreover, scholars allege that a weaker sense of school connectedness for AI youths is associated with increased episodes of depression (Serafini et al., 2017). School connectedness is a protective factor against suicide for AI adolescents (Fullerton et al., 2019 Marraccini & Brier, 2017 Mohatt et al., 2011 Pharris et al., 1997). They experience worse mental health outcomes than non-Native adolescents (Uink et al., 2022), and their rates of death by suicide peak during adolescence (Wexler et al., 2015). American Indian (AI) adolescents are understudied (Quijada Cerecer, 2013)and seldom represented in educational spheres (Covarrubias & Fryberg, 2015 Serafini et al., 2017). ![]()
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