Racial Trauma in Black Clients

Jennifer R. Jones-Damis, PsyD, is Director of the Counseling Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is an active participant with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), particularly on the Schools Committee and the Justice Consortium Committee. Dr. Jones-Damis’s research interests focus on understanding and addressing traumatic stress and racial trauma in individuals and systems. She holds positions on the state and national boards of the Association of Black Psychologists. Kelly N. Moore, PsyD, is Director of the Center for Psychological Services in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She also has a private practice providing mental health treatment, training and consultation. Dr. Moore's clinical foci are trauma, anxiety, and perinatal disorders, and she consults and trains professionals and graduate students on culturally responsive supervision, racial trauma, and the influence of culture on the manifestation of mental health challenges.

Foreword, Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Preface
I. Racial Trauma in Clinical Settings
1. Where Do We Begin?: Racial Trauma and Thinking Beyond Diagnosis
2. Thinking Outside the Box: Treatment Adaptations to Address Racial Trauma
3. Awareness in Action: Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Treatment Seeking
4. Preparing the Next Generation: Culturally Responsive Supervision
II. Racial Trauma in Community Settings
5. Pen or Pencil: Addressing Racial Trauma in Schools
6. Black and Blue: Working with Law Enforcement
7. The Talk: Helping Parents and Children with Racial Trauma
III. Healing from Racial Trauma
8. Healer, Heal Me: Healing Clients from Racial Trauma
9. Healer, Heal Thyself: Vicarious Racial Trauma and Self-Care
Conclusion: Summing It All Up
Glossary
References
Index