Trauma and Mental Health Social Work With Urban Populations

Part 1: Introduction: Rethinking Trauma and Mental Health for People of African Ancestry. 1. Reclaiming Our Right to Wholeness and Wellness. Part 2: Conceptualizing Urban Practice and Mental Health. 2. Living While Black: The Psychophysiological Health Implications of Vicarious Racial Trauma. 3. Sacred Spaces: Spirituality as a Healing-Centered Modality for Trauma in Urban Communities. 4. Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and Brainspotting: An African-Centered Critique. 5. Culturally Relevant, Trauma-Responsive, and Healing-Centered Social Work Supervision. Part 3: Trauma and the Legacy of the Black Experience. 6. Encapsulating our Truths: An Afrocentric Approach to Addressing Trauma in African American Culture. 7. Intimate Partner Violence, Trauma and Mental Health. 8. #IAmMeToo: Considering African-Centered Strategies for Sexual Assault Survivors. 9. The Fingerprint of Trauma on Black Youth: A critical Analysis of Eurocentric Social Work Models with Adolescents and the Shift Toward the Afrocentric Paradigm. 10. Cocoa Butter: How Black Mothers Prevent, Protect and Heal Their Daughters from Racialized-Gender Trauma. Part 4: In the Trenches: Community Advocacy. 11. Being an Informal Caregiver:A Multigenerational Issue Across The Life Span. 12. Addressing Trauma and Toxicity Among Black Male Youth: Exploring African-Centered Rites of Passage Programming as a Protective Factor. 13. Uponyaji: Restoring the Spirits Of Foster Care and Adopted Children Who Have Experienced Loss. 14. Addressing Substance use through African-Centered Practice Approaches. 15. Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Black Community: Examining Culturally Responsive Approaches. 16. Incarceration: The New Slavery.