Bright Nights Community Forum | Moving the Talk to the Walk: Talking about Race with Youth

When

Tuesday September 15, 2020: 7:00pm to 8:00pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

AADL.TV

Description

For Black youth and adults, prolonged exposure to racial discrimination has resulted in debilitating psychological, behavioral, and health outcomes. To help their children prepare for and prevent the deleterious consequences of discrimination, many Black parents utilize racial socialization, or communication about racialized experiences. And, while racial socialization strategies correspond with several CBT strategies widely used by clinicians, there is a critical gap between what Black families do to mitigate discriminatory distress and what clinicians and providers offer Black youth. As such, training clinicians to more effectively utilize racial socialization processes and develop such skills to help Black youth and parents heal from the effects of past, current, and future racial trauma is important. Greater racial socialization competency is proposed as achievable through intentional and mindful practice, thus, this symposium will explore theories and practices important in the healing processes of racial trauma for Black families, clinicians, and researchers alike, especially in times of exceptional stress (e.g., COVID-19).  

Riana Elyse Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Virginia and completed a Clinical and Community Psychology Doctoral Internship at Yale University's School of Medicine. 

This event is in partnership with the University of Michigan Depression Center.

Links From The Video:
Depression Center's Support Groups
The EMBRace Program – connect by email (theembraceprogram@gmail.com), Twitter (@embraceprogram) or InstaGram (@theembraceprogram).

This video premieres on AADL.TV.