Thread by @HelenNeville12

BIPOC psychologists have written extensively on racial trauma & healing. See #RadicalHealingSyllabus and other resources I'll drop in the thread. @DellaVMosley @DoctorBry @JioniLewis @HYAdames @NYChavez @GACspeaksout

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Early seminal piece by @drthema on racist-based incident trauma.

Robert Carter's seminal work on race-based traumatic stress

.@TheABPsi scholars are doing important work on emotional emancipation (healing) circles.

.@brendesha has conducted groundbreaking research on the impact of online racism on Youth of Color.

.@HopesPsychology and @JosiBanales are on fire with their research on critical consciousness and reflection among Black youth.

Racism hurts!

We are all are touched by white supremacy. Internalized racism is harmful. We need to educate our communities and promote racial-ethnic-cultural pride. @ejrdavid

We need #RadicalHope now! @DellaVMosley @HYAdames @NYChavez @JioniLewis @DoctorBry

The Costs of Racism for People of Color @AlvinNAlvarez

.@brendesha leading the way on research on online discrimination among Youth of Color

.@JioniLewis does excellent research on gendered racial #microaggressions

.@JioniLewis leading the way with her research on gendered racial micgroaggressions

A new model of racial-ethnic trauma among MENA Americans. @Dr_GigiAwad

Lillian Comas-Diaz, the godmother of research on racial trauma and healing.

American Psychologist special issue on racial trauma and healing with editors Lillian Comas-Diaz and @gnhall2
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I anticipate that this will serve as an #awakening moment for a lot of Black youth. An academic highlight was to work with one of my academic heroes - Bill Cross - on this piece.

Frantz Fanon's work informed Black liberation movements across the globe. His scholarship has relevance today and has informed applied clinical work. #FrantzFanon

Reading Janet Helms is a must! Here's an important piece naming racism and ethnoviolence as trauma with @drcegreen

.@jaricheson edited a special issue on the Psychology of Racism in Current Directions in Psychological Science

Healing from historical trauma among Native Americans.

.@DrNeblett outlines future directions in racism and health research.

Racial stress and trauma significantly impacts Youth of Color. @dr_ftsaleem @rianaelyse

The idea of #RaceRelatedVigilance is particularly relevant today! Excellent work by @DrNatalieWS1

The importance of #BlackStudies scholarship and history in the (psychological) liberation for Black Youth!

There is some good work on African American boys and men from a positive development framework.

Revisit this classic - The Role of Black Psychologists in Black Liberation by Dr. Baldwin/Kobi Kambon @TheABPsi

Check out @Wizdomisms, @SeatonEleanor, and @DrNeblett research. Here is a good example of their work

Check out @kevinnadal research on #microaggressions including this work focusing on traumatic stress

.@CourtneyCogburn does innovative empirical research on racism. Here is an excellent integrative review of research on #CulturalRacism with implications for improving inequities and health.

Important editorial by @JoseCausadias and colleague identifying racial discrimination as a national health crisis.

Janet Helms has a new edition of her classic text, Race Is a Nice Thing to Have. Anyone doing #whiteness work should pick up a copy. #citeblackwomen @ISPRC

📢New Publication. @BPinetta, @DrRivasDrake & team found that Latinx youth who reported greater sociopolitical discussions with parents were more likely to report more collective responsibility & future community involvement. Civic engagement as healing! @AcademicTwitter

📢new book! Racial trauma experts Robert Carter and Alex Pieterse 2020 book providing guidelines for assessment and treatment of race-based traumatic stress injury
#RacialTraumaIsReal #AcademicTwitter

📢New publication. Intersectionality Awakening Model of Womanista by @NYChavez and @HYAdames. They present a model that incorporates #intersectionality consciousness and liberation (all components of healing). Good clinical implications provided. @FeministVoices @APADivision17

I’m definitely adding this gem to my MCC syllabus and I will be citing in the future. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 @NYChavez and @HYAdames

🗣new publication. So excited to receive Lillian Comas-Díaz and Edil Torres Rivera’s new edited book- #LiberationPsychology: Theory, Method, Practice and Social Justice. Contributors include @anneliesesingh @drthema

Dr Brendesha Tynes and her team are doing some of the most innovative work on racial trauma. Here they explored the protective role of liberatory media literacy in understanding the link bw exposure to online to r/e traumatic events and PTSD. 👏🏾🔥
@brendesha @DrVanessaVolpe
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Lilian Comas-Díaz latest article in the #AfroLatinidad special issue in the Journal of Latinx Psychology is a must read for those interested in liberation psychology and #RadicalHealing. Good discussion of AfroLatinx spirituality as resistance & healing