Sil Machado, PhD Being Diminished in the Eyes of the Other Collage The encounter with homophobic attitudes and behaviors is a significant, often traumatic stressor in the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals. This collage, which is part of an arts-based interpretive phenomenological inquiry into the experience of homophobia, represents the theme of being diminished in the…
READ MOREWritten by: Kristina Schoenthaler Section Editor: Kiara Tookes-Williams Peer Reviewers: Molly Becker, Olivia Jackson, Jasmine Merlette, Zaine Roberts Advisor: Antonella Bariani When working with children in the welfare system, I often ask a simple but powerful question: “If you had a magic wand that could fix all your problems overnight, what would you wish for?”…
READ MOREReview by: Nancy Maguire Section Editors: Serena Wadhwa & Omewha Beaton Yamonte Cooper, (New York, NY: Routledge), 2024, 314 Pages, ISBN 978-1032554105 (hardback), 978-1032554112 (paperback) Dr. Yamonte Cooper’s work, Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities and Interventions, is seminal. He begins by articulating the meaning of anti-Blackness, simply and clearly stated as “racism based…
READ MORETask Force Report on Psychologists’ Role in Interrogation Division 56 has been concerned about the question of psychologists’ role in interrogations since it was founded in 2006. The first division President, Judie Alpert, charged member, Nnamdi Pole to Chair a task force to “examine psychologist’s role in interrogation from the perspective of trauma” and report…
READ MORE2026 Division 56 Officer Positions for Election: Council Representative (Three-year term, renewable for one term) Early Career Representative (Three-year term, renewable for one term) Member-At-Large (Three-year term, renewable for one term) President-Elect (One-year term, moves into the President’s office for the succeeding term) Student Representative (Two-year term, renewable for one term) Treasurer (Three-year term, renewable…
READ MORERefugee Mental Health Resource Network The Refugee Mental Health Resource Network: An APA Interdivisional Project Elizabeth Carll, Ph.D., Chair There has been a growing urgency to address the global migration problem impacting many nations including the U.S. The crisis resulting from the separation of children from their parents and families when attempting to seek refuge…
READ MORERefugee and Global Migration Mental Health United Nations Refugee Agency Operational guidance, mental health & psychosocial support programming for refugee operations: https://www.unhcr.org/us/media/operational-guidance-mental-health-psychosocial-support-programming-refugee-operations Toolkit: Suicide Prevention in Refugee Settings: https://www.unhcr.org/us/media/toolkit-suicide-prevention-refugee-settings Evidence for suicide prevention and response programs with refugees: A systematic review and recommendations (2018): https://www.unhcr.org/media/evidence-suicide-prevention-and-response-programs-refugees-systematic-review-and Addressing Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders among Refugees: A Desk…
READ MOREFrom the Voice of a Survivor: What Researchers Should Know When Partnering with Male Survivors Watch Video Mr. Christopher Anderson, the former Executive Director of MaleSurvivor, a non-profit organization devoted to helping male trauma survivors heal, narrates a web-based video designed to answer questions researchers may have about working with trauma survivors as key partners…
READ MOREWatch Video This video is a web-based training designed for health care researchers to understand, “The Importance of the Trauma Survivor Community Driving Research.” It provides information on how it is not only feasible to involve trauma survivors and their families in health care research, but how their participation is essential to the conduct and…
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