Noni Gaylord-Harden
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Biography

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Accepting Students for 2026-2027?: No

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Research Interests

My primary research interest has been in the investigation of traumatic stress and mental health in Black youth and families. My most recent work focuses on the impact of exposure to community violence and traumatic loss on Black adolescents and families in disinvested, urban communities. I have also examined the role of modifiable protective factors, such as future orientation, coping strategies, and parent-child relationships, that buffer the effects of traumatic stress.  My team and I seek to address disparities in community violence exposure and traumatic loss and to minimize the adverse effects of violence exposure by enhancing existing strengths and assets embedded in Black youth, families, and communities. I aim to utilize findings from my research to design and implement strengths-based interventions that promote healing for Black adolescents and families.

Selected Publications

    • Alli, J., Gaylord-Harden, N., & Jenkins, E. (2025). Examining Patterns of DepressiveSymptoms Among Black Youth in Economically Disinvested Urban Communities: A Latent Profile Analysis. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 53, 983-998.

    • Douglas, R., Hsieh, T., Alvis, L., Gaylord-Harden, N., & Syvertsen, A. (2025). COVID-19 Stress and coping among Black youth: The role of socio-emotional community mentor support. Journal of Community Psychology, 53(2), e70004.

    • Douglas, R., Alli, J., Gaylord-Harden, N., Opara, I., & Gilreath, T. (2025). Examining the integrated model of the interpersonal-psychological theory of suicide and intersectionality theory among black male adolescents. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 55(1), e13066. Special Issue on Suicidality in Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth.

    • Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Gilreath, T., Burnside, A., Mintah, P. & Lindsey, M. (2024). Profiles of suicidal ideation among Black male adolescents: Examination of individual and socioecological predictors.  Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 53(6), 878-892.

    • Wilkins, K. V., Wilkins, W. L., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Tolan, P. H., & Woods-Jaeger, B. (2023). Family matters: The effects of multigenerational community violence exposure on family functioning. Research in Human Development, 20(1-2), 6-24.

    • Alvis, L., Douglas, R. D., Oosterhoff, B., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Kaplow, J., (2023). Identity-based bullying and mental health among Black and Latino youth: the moderating role of emotional suppression. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 36(2), 409-420.

    • Woods-Jaeger, B., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Mathies-Dinizulu, S., Elder, A., & Smith, R. (2023). Developing practices for hospital-based violence intervention programs to address anti-Black racism and historical trauma.  American Psychologist, 78(2), 199-210.

    • Sargent, E., Wilkins, K., Phan, J., & Gaylord-Harden, N. K. (2022). Cognitive, personality, and demographic factors: A moderated mediation of chronic violence exposure and violent offending in justice-involved youth. Psychology of Violence, 12(6), 413-423.

    • Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Alli, J., Davis-Stover-Davis, C. P., & Henderson, H. (2022). A trauma-informed decision-making model of firearm behavior for Black adolescents: Implications for prevention. Preventive Medicine, 165(Part A), 107305.  Invited manuscript for the Special Issue on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Gun Violence.

    • Phan, J., Harris, B. & Gaylord-Harden, N. K. (2022). Coping socialization in Black families: A latent profile analysis.  Journal of Family Psychology, 36(8), 1306-1317.

    • Phan, J. & Gaylord-Harden, N. K. (2022). Examining the pathologic adaptation model of community violence exposure in justice involved adolescents: The moderating and mediating effects of moral disengagement. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 15, 669-681.

    • Bogan, E., Adams-Bass, V., Francis, L., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Scott, J., Seaton, E., & Williams, J. (2022).  “Wearing a Mask Won’t Protect Us from Our History”: The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Children and Families. Social Policy Report, 35(2), 1-33.

    • Boxer, P., Brunson, R., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Kahn, K., Patton, D., Richardson, J., Rivera, L., Smith-Lee, J. R., Staller, M., Krahé, B., Dubow, E., Parrott, D., & Algrim, K. (2021).  Addressing the Inappropriate Use of Force by Police in the United States and Beyond: A Behavioral and Social Science Perspective. Report of the Police Violence Commission International Society for Research on Aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 47, 502-512.

    • Woods-Jaeger, B., Briggs, E. C., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Cho, B., & Lemon, E.  (2021). Translating cultural assets research into action to mitigate adverse childhood experience-related health disparities among African American youth.  American Psychologist, 76, 326-336.

    • Nebbitt, V., Lombe, M., Pitzer, K., Foell, A., Enelamah, N., Chu, Y., Yu, M., Neweransky, C. & Gaylord-Harden, N. K. (2021). Exposure to violence and posttraumatic stress among youth in public housing: Do community, family, and peers matter?  Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 8, 264-274.

    • So, S., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., & Voisin, D. R. (2021).  Examining the factor structure of the coping with community violence scale for urban youth.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(1-2), 1127-1154.

    • Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Graham, S., Barbarin, O., Tolan, P. & Murry, V. M. (2021). Coping and adaptation in challenging environments: Introduction to the special issue on development of boys and young men of color. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 101220.

    • Phan, J., So, S., Thomas, A., & Gaylord-Harden, N. K. (2020). Hyperarousal and hypervigilance in African American male adolescents exposed to community violence. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 70, 101168. Special issue on the development of boys and young men of color.

    • Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Burnside, A. & Tinsley, D. (2020).  The prevalence and longitudinal patterns of continuous community violence exposure and trauma-related symptoms in serious male adolescent offenders. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33, 541–551.

    • Barbarin, O., Tolan, P., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., & Murry, V. (2020). Promoting social justice for African American boys and young men through research and intervention: A challenge for developmental science. Applied Developmental Science, 24(3), 196-207.

    • Pierre, C., Burnside, A., & Gaylord-Harden, N. K. (2020). A longitudinal examination of community violence exposure, school belongingness, and mental health among African American adolescent males. School Mental Health, 12(2), 388-399.

    • Sargent, E., Zahniser, E., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Morency, M. & Jenkins, E. (2020). Examining the effects of family and community violence on African American adolescents: The roles of violence type and relationship proximity to violence.  Journal of Early Adolescence, 40(5), 633-661.

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