Pub Date : 2023-11-12DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2275934
Jioni A. Lewis, Marlene G. Williams
AbstractAlthough there has been an increase in intersectionality scholarship in the field of psychology, there is still a dearth of research and praxis grounded in a Black feminist theoretical perspective. The purpose of this paper is to apply a Black feminist and intersectionality lens to research, practice, and advocacy on Black women’s experiences of gendered racism. First, this paper will provide a brief herstory of Black feminist, womanist, and intersectionality theory and its relevance to the field of psychology. Next, we will highlight an example of how to apply a Black feminist and intersectionality lens to research on gendered racism among Black women. Then, we will apply Black feminism to therapy with Black women by highlighting a clinical case example. We will end by highlighting the importance of Black feminism to social justice advocacy and systems-level interventions to promote the health and well-being of Black women.Keywords: Black feminismintersectionalitygendered racismBlack womenfeminist therapy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The name, identifying information, and content of the clinical case have been de-identified and disguised for the purpose of this paper.
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AbstractBlack women disproportionately experience higher rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease; as well as misdiagnosed depression and anxiety and overdiagnosis of schizophrenia. The combined effect of gendered racism and intergenerational trauma amplify Black women’s health experiences. Healing these diseases by addressing the emotional root causes is critical. An imbalance of emotions like fear, withdrawal, apathy, listlessness, disgust, frustration, rage, anxiety, inferiority, submission, and bewilderment can manifest as physical representations of depression, anxiety, and other chronic health conditions. Heal the emotion(s), heal the disease(s) is a common approach found in Indigenous, African, and Chinese sciences, medicines, and ways of knowing. Black women experience gendered racism and intergenerational trauma due to the historical, ongoing, and contemporary daily trauma of living as a Black woman in the Americas. Navigating these oppressions in addition to other general stressors creates a need for an accessible tool designed to address and combat these emotional difficulties for Black women’s mental, emotional, and physical health. This explanatory mechanism of emotions and their inextricable linkages to physical representations of illness/disease provides a lens for understanding how to address the effects of chronic health inequities. Implications for community intervention, dissemination and research are discussed.Keywords: Black womenhealingwritingemotional and mental healthmethodology Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The terms “sister” and “sistah” are used interchangeably throughout the manuscript. Both are terms referring to women and are meant to reflect familiarity, culture, and community for Black women.
{"title":"Writehealing: a Sistah’s Circle Praxis to Heal and Liberate","authors":"Jameta Nicole Barlow, Martha Kakooza, Monique Easley","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2275919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2275919","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractBlack women disproportionately experience higher rates of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease; as well as misdiagnosed depression and anxiety and overdiagnosis of schizophrenia. The combined effect of gendered racism and intergenerational trauma amplify Black women’s health experiences. Healing these diseases by addressing the emotional root causes is critical. An imbalance of emotions like fear, withdrawal, apathy, listlessness, disgust, frustration, rage, anxiety, inferiority, submission, and bewilderment can manifest as physical representations of depression, anxiety, and other chronic health conditions. Heal the emotion(s), heal the disease(s) is a common approach found in Indigenous, African, and Chinese sciences, medicines, and ways of knowing. Black women experience gendered racism and intergenerational trauma due to the historical, ongoing, and contemporary daily trauma of living as a Black woman in the Americas. Navigating these oppressions in addition to other general stressors creates a need for an accessible tool designed to address and combat these emotional difficulties for Black women’s mental, emotional, and physical health. This explanatory mechanism of emotions and their inextricable linkages to physical representations of illness/disease provides a lens for understanding how to address the effects of chronic health inequities. Implications for community intervention, dissemination and research are discussed.Keywords: Black womenhealingwritingemotional and mental healthmethodology Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The terms “sister” and “sistah” are used interchangeably throughout the manuscript. Both are terms referring to women and are meant to reflect familiarity, culture, and community for Black women.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135818637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AbstractThe painful consequences of intersectional racial trauma on the mental health of Black women have been examined in the existing literature. However, limited research explicates how to assess, conceptualize, and treat intersectional racial trauma in clinical practice. Practicing psychologists seeking to integrate science and practice for mental health and social justice breakthroughs desire innovative clinical models to facilitate this work. This paper presents a case study of a week-long, intensive teletherapy retreat to treat the intersectional racial trauma of a queer, middle-aged, Black cisgender woman. We detail theories and research regarding racial trauma and intersectionality and present the integrated How to Love a Human model. Then, we describe the client’s presenting concerns and how to assess and conceptualize intersectional racial trauma to inform a multifaceted, collectivistic treatment approach. Last, we chronologically overview each day of the retreat and address how our healing approach can serve as a research framework and clinical example to treat intersectional racial trauma among Black women.PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTRacial trauma is a painful reality for many Black women, with other intersecting forms of oppression exacerbating the impact. This paper describes how four Black women provided therapy through an innovative, collectivist model for a queer Black woman experiencing intersectional racial trauma.Keywords: Racial traumamental healthblack womenintersectionalitycase study AcknowledgementThe authors thank the client for her permission to share this story and the healing process.Notes1 Client provided permission to publish this case study using some identifying information for accurate context. We use a pseudonym throughout this text.
{"title":"“Black Women Saved my Life”: A Case Study on Healing Intersectional Racial Trauma","authors":"Candice Nicole Hargons, Jardin Dogan-Dixon, Natalie Malone, Anyoliny Sanchez","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2275939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2275939","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe painful consequences of intersectional racial trauma on the mental health of Black women have been examined in the existing literature. However, limited research explicates how to assess, conceptualize, and treat intersectional racial trauma in clinical practice. Practicing psychologists seeking to integrate science and practice for mental health and social justice breakthroughs desire innovative clinical models to facilitate this work. This paper presents a case study of a week-long, intensive teletherapy retreat to treat the intersectional racial trauma of a queer, middle-aged, Black cisgender woman. We detail theories and research regarding racial trauma and intersectionality and present the integrated How to Love a Human model. Then, we describe the client’s presenting concerns and how to assess and conceptualize intersectional racial trauma to inform a multifaceted, collectivistic treatment approach. Last, we chronologically overview each day of the retreat and address how our healing approach can serve as a research framework and clinical example to treat intersectional racial trauma among Black women.PUBLIC SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENTRacial trauma is a painful reality for many Black women, with other intersecting forms of oppression exacerbating the impact. This paper describes how four Black women provided therapy through an innovative, collectivist model for a queer Black woman experiencing intersectional racial trauma.Keywords: Racial traumamental healthblack womenintersectionalitycase study AcknowledgementThe authors thank the client for her permission to share this story and the healing process.Notes1 Client provided permission to publish this case study using some identifying information for accurate context. We use a pseudonym throughout this text.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135869057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2275926
Millicent Cahoon, Amanda M. Mitchell
AbstractThe literature underscores gaps between mental health services and Black and Brown communities in relation to accessibility and cultural responsivity. Therapists for Protester Wellness (T4PW) was created to bridge these gaps during the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This conceptual article highlights connections among tenets of the Radical Healing framework, liberation psychology, and the mission and content of T4PW to demonstrate a culturally responsive way to support Black and Brown communities during social unrest through therapeutic and collectivistic support.Keywords: Therapists for Protester Wellnessradical healingcollectivismcommunity-based healingrace and ethnicitysocial justiceactivismliberation psychology Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
{"title":"Healing through Grassroots Activism: Therapists for Protester Wellness","authors":"Millicent Cahoon, Amanda M. Mitchell","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2275926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2275926","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe literature underscores gaps between mental health services and Black and Brown communities in relation to accessibility and cultural responsivity. Therapists for Protester Wellness (T4PW) was created to bridge these gaps during the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. This conceptual article highlights connections among tenets of the Radical Healing framework, liberation psychology, and the mission and content of T4PW to demonstrate a culturally responsive way to support Black and Brown communities during social unrest through therapeutic and collectivistic support.Keywords: Therapists for Protester Wellnessradical healingcollectivismcommunity-based healingrace and ethnicitysocial justiceactivismliberation psychology Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135818945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2275915
Aashna Banerjee, Taylor N. Thomas, Shantel D. Gaillard
AbstractEighty-six percent of psychologists are white, leading to implicit and explicit discrepancies, exclusion, and discrimination against people of color in the discipline. Additionally, academia tends to center white, Eurocentric, and male narratives and experiences in psychology which perpetuates oppression of marginalized communities, especially women of color, in psychology. Thus, in this article, we propose a womanist-liberation framework to support radical healing of women of color in psychology and, ultimately, growth of the discipline. We share reflexive narratives called testimonios to describe our experiences as women of color in academia, in the hopes of encouraging reflection, developing insight, cultivating compassion, and inciting social justice action amongst our readers. Lastly, we propose recommendations stemming from a womanist-liberation framework to make psychology more inclusive, responsive, attuned, and liberatory toward the experiences of women of color.Keywords: Liberation psychologymujerismotestimonioswomanism Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
{"title":"Seeking Womanist-Liberation: Using Testimonios to Drive anti-Racism in Psychology","authors":"Aashna Banerjee, Taylor N. Thomas, Shantel D. Gaillard","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2275915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2275915","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractEighty-six percent of psychologists are white, leading to implicit and explicit discrepancies, exclusion, and discrimination against people of color in the discipline. Additionally, academia tends to center white, Eurocentric, and male narratives and experiences in psychology which perpetuates oppression of marginalized communities, especially women of color, in psychology. Thus, in this article, we propose a womanist-liberation framework to support radical healing of women of color in psychology and, ultimately, growth of the discipline. We share reflexive narratives called testimonios to describe our experiences as women of color in academia, in the hopes of encouraging reflection, developing insight, cultivating compassion, and inciting social justice action amongst our readers. Lastly, we propose recommendations stemming from a womanist-liberation framework to make psychology more inclusive, responsive, attuned, and liberatory toward the experiences of women of color.Keywords: Liberation psychologymujerismotestimonioswomanism Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2286079
Noelany Pelc, R. L. Dyer, Celina Whitmore
Abstract In this special issue, we sought to expand and extend the work of feminist and womanist therapists, educators, and activists beyond the Association for Women in Psychology 2021 conference—uplifting ongoing work toward anti-racism and liberation within a dual pandemic context. Contributors to this special issue detailed their work and recommendations in these domains across levels of intervention from the interpersonal to the structural. In this concluding article, we synthesize the throughlines of healing and action in contributor narratives and offer our final thoughts to advance anti-racist work taking place across a number of settings.
{"title":"Conclusion to Anti-Racist Feminist Practice, Advocacy, and Activism Special Issue","authors":"Noelany Pelc, R. L. Dyer, Celina Whitmore","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2286079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2286079","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this special issue, we sought to expand and extend the work of feminist and womanist therapists, educators, and activists beyond the Association for Women in Psychology 2021 conference—uplifting ongoing work toward anti-racism and liberation within a dual pandemic context. Contributors to this special issue detailed their work and recommendations in these domains across levels of intervention from the interpersonal to the structural. In this concluding article, we synthesize the throughlines of healing and action in contributor narratives and offer our final thoughts to advance anti-racist work taking place across a number of settings.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2286056
Mohamed M. Elnakib, Monique Turner
Abstract The United States has been convulsed as nationwide protests and riots erupted following the murder of a Black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police officer, Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was seen kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck while he was on the ground for approximately nine minutes. In this article, the authors briefly examine the history of political activism in the United States, the impact of riots on policy change and mobilization, as well as the mental health outcomes of activism. Through an autoethnographic account of a traumatic arrest of the first author who was arrested during the protests following the murder of George Floyd, the first author reveals the power of healing through community activism. This work contributes to intellectual literature as it examines the overall benefits of activism, suggesting that participating in activism as a form of self-advocacy and self-care is a key component of collective healing and liberation. In addition, in order to sustain one’s mental health while engaged in activism, the authors share a few methods of self-care that can be used by Black people, Indigenous people, and other People of Color (BIPOC). Methodologically, it demonstrates the usefulness of autoethnography for scholars across a myriad of disciplines.
{"title":"The Power of Activism as Self-Care: An Autoethnography of the Arrest of Activists in the Wake of the George Floyd Protests","authors":"Mohamed M. Elnakib, Monique Turner","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2286056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2286056","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The United States has been convulsed as nationwide protests and riots erupted following the murder of a Black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police officer, Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was seen kneeling on Mr. Floyd’s neck while he was on the ground for approximately nine minutes. In this article, the authors briefly examine the history of political activism in the United States, the impact of riots on policy change and mobilization, as well as the mental health outcomes of activism. Through an autoethnographic account of a traumatic arrest of the first author who was arrested during the protests following the murder of George Floyd, the first author reveals the power of healing through community activism. This work contributes to intellectual literature as it examines the overall benefits of activism, suggesting that participating in activism as a form of self-advocacy and self-care is a key component of collective healing and liberation. In addition, in order to sustain one’s mental health while engaged in activism, the authors share a few methods of self-care that can be used by Black people, Indigenous people, and other People of Color (BIPOC). Methodologically, it demonstrates the usefulness of autoethnography for scholars across a myriad of disciplines.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2286051
A. M. Jantzer, Amy L. Reynolds, Roger L. Worthington
Abstract Psychologists, based on their training in the science and practice of change, are well-equipped to make vital contributions to combating inequity and embracing social justice at colleges and universities. By examining the oppressive systemic contexts of higher education and reviewing models of change, this article provides psychologists with critical perspectives and practices to ensure a more transformative and anti-racist approach to change. We consider three conceptual models to help move colleges and universities forward, employ evidence-based research and assessment strategies, and apply them at the individual, group, and organizational levels. A Black feminist critique is also utilized to further understanding of the role of resistance, coalition building, and freedom in creating change on campus.
{"title":"Psychologists as Anti-Racist Change Agents on Campus: “What We Do Is More Important than What We Say or What We Say We Believe”","authors":"A. M. Jantzer, Amy L. Reynolds, Roger L. Worthington","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2286051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2286051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Psychologists, based on their training in the science and practice of change, are well-equipped to make vital contributions to combating inequity and embracing social justice at colleges and universities. By examining the oppressive systemic contexts of higher education and reviewing models of change, this article provides psychologists with critical perspectives and practices to ensure a more transformative and anti-racist approach to change. We consider three conceptual models to help move colleges and universities forward, employ evidence-based research and assessment strategies, and apply them at the individual, group, and organizational levels. A Black feminist critique is also utilized to further understanding of the role of resistance, coalition building, and freedom in creating change on campus.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2280419
Katherine W. Bogen, Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, shola shodiya-zeumault
Abstract This special issue draws together Black feminist, womanist, mujerista, and anti-racist approaches to theory and praxis. Authors provide recommendations and guidance toward liberatory approaches to psychology, therapy, activism, and healing. The collection builds upon presentations and conversations that took place at the Association for Women in Psychology 2021 virtual conference about how to best work toward a more just, anti-racist, and liberatory world as feminist and womanist therapists in increasingly difficult social contexts. The articles provide important herstories, testimonies, analyses, and promising actions. Together, these works invite readers to join together in imagining and enacting radically inclusive paths to healing and collective liberation.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2288366
Tiffany R. Williams, Christy L. Erving, Jeffery E. Bass, Taeja Mitchell, Reniece Martin, Miaya Blasingame, Allison Hotz
Abstract The pandemic in 2020 commenced a particularly turbulent era of racial unrest, social injustice, and violence toward Black women. Drawing from Black feminist and intersectionality theories, this qualitative inquiry explored Black women’s experiences of racism and sexism during the racial pandemic. Two hundred forty-one Black women shared their narratives and reflections. The analysis revealed two major themes: (a) racialized violence and harassment (e.g., stereotypes, dominance) and (b) their psychological consequences (e.g., anxiety, depression, racial trauma). Clinical implications are offered to support and empower Black women.
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