The Work Is Never Done: Mental Health, Mass Incarceration, and African American Custodial Grandparen
By Frances Adomako, Ed.M (Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student, Howard University) Traditionally, African American grandparents have...
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donjacques
Jul 24, 20186 min read
Hit, Hurt, and Distressed: How Violence and Trauma Put Women at Risk of Incarceration
This is the first in a series of blog posts on the issue of violence against women and girls. The blog series is brought to you by the...
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donjacques
Jul 3, 20185 min read
Families Belong Together: 4 Reasons Why Family Separations Are So Harmful
By Kalina Brabeck, PhD, & Christina M. Rodriguez, PhD (APA Committee on Children, Youth, and Families) Any parent with a child in daycare...
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donjacques
Jun 5, 20185 min read
The Cost of Being Poor in a Warming World
By Ashley Charest, MSPH (Health Policy Analyst Associate, Maryland Department of Health) If you don’t feel the impacts of climate change...
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donjacques
May 12, 20175 min read
What’s Going On? How We Can Confront Child Sexual Abuse in America
By Karen Ethridge, PhD, & Tonya Davis, PhD (Alabama A&M University) The child welfare system is charged with promoting the wellbeing of...
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donjacques
Mar 29, 20174 min read
We Lose Too Many Vietnam Veterans to Suicide: Here’s How You Can Help
By Meg Lacy (Doctoral Student, Palo Alto University) As our Vietnam veteran population ages, many may become increasingly vulnerable for...
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donjacques
Nov 16, 20163 min read
Historical Trauma in the Present: Why APA Cannot Remain Silent on the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Susan H. McDaniel, PhD (2016 APA President) Protesters being marked with numbers, put in dog kennels and shot with rubber bullets....
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donjacques
Sep 9, 201610 min read
9 Ways to Talk to Your Kids about the 15th Anniversary of September 11
By Robin Gurwitch, PhD The assassination of John F. Kennedy. The explosion of the Challenger. The terrorist attacks of September 11,...
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donjacques
Aug 29, 20165 min read
We Need to Talk About How Race-Related Trauma Hurts Black and Brown Youth in Schools
By Dawn Henderson, PhD (Associate Professor, North Carolina A&T State University) and Alexis Lunford (Research Assistant) Witnessing or...
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donjacques
Jul 14, 20165 min read
Racial Trauma is Real: The Impact of Police Shootings on African Americans
By Erlanger A. Turner, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Houston-Downtown) & Jasmine Richardson Note: An...
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donjacques
Jul 12, 20164 min read
How to Talk to Our Kids about the Tragic Shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas
By Robin Gurwitch, PhD Families around the country are coming together to talk about the officer-involved shootings in Louisiana,...
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donjacques
Jun 14, 20164 min read
Responding to the Tragedy in Orlando: Helpful Responses for LGBTQ People and Allies
By Glenda Russell, PhD What took place in Orlando on the morning of June 12, 2016 was a hate crime and an act of terror. In one sense,...
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donjacques
Jun 13, 20165 min read
7 Ways to Talk to Children and Youth about the Shootings in Orlando
By Robin Gurwitch, PhD Once again our nation is coping with a violent tragedy. In the aftermath of the Orlando terrorist attack, we find...
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donjacques
May 22, 20155 min read
In Case You Missed It – May 22, 2015 – Racial double standard in Waco coverage, suicide
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles related to psychology, health, mental health and social justice collated from...
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donjacques
Apr 15, 20153 min read
ACT in Japan: Bridging Cultures to Help Families Raise Children without Violence
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is the third in a series of posts about APA’s ACT Raising Safe Kids (ACT-RSK)...
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donjacques
Oct 27, 20145 min read
John’s Story: How Racism and Classism Operate Within the Mental Health Care System
This post continues our new blog series on poverty. As our nation reflects on its progress in fighting poverty over the last 50 years,...
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donjacques
Oct 17, 20145 min read
Close to Home: A Psychologist Reflects on Providing Crisis Counseling in Ferguson
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Jameca Falconer, PhD...
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donjacques
Aug 27, 20147 min read
“Hate Being Sober”: Lessons from Rap Music to Address Substance Use among African Americ
By Cendrine Robinson, MS (Doctoral Candidate in Medical and Clinical Psychology) Chicago native, rapper Chief Keef’s song Hate Being...
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donjacques
Oct 2, 20132 min read
THEory into ACTion: Addressing the Needs of Violence-Exposed Youth in Chicago
“THEory into ACTion” is a series of cross posts from APA Division 27’s Community Psychology Practice Council blog. “THEory into...
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donjacques
May 6, 20134 min read
Finding Silver Linings After the Boston Marathon Bombings
By Eddy Ameen, PhD – Assistant Director, American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) During the four years that I...
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