Lauren Gonzales

Guest Author

Lauren Gonzales, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at the Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University. She is interested in issues of mental health equity and recovery including mental health stigma and discrimination, housing instability and justice-involvement among individuals with mental health diagnoses, and the contribution of social marginalization to mental health disparities.

Lauren's Work:

03.03.2021 a person holding a gun

Health Equity
Violence

For Youth Gun Violence, Context Matters

Media coverage of incidents of gun violence often focuses on characteristics of individual perpetrators. Contextual factors, including gun access and violent crime at the population level, receive far less attention.

Guest Author Lauren Gonzales