Raising Awareness and Getting to Action: Uprooting White Supremacy and Promoting Racial Justice

Creating a Healing Community to Promote Racial Justice

Posted in: Anti-Racism, Marginalized Groups | Tags: Featured Content
Alternative settings, like CBTL can provide relational healing spaces grounded in collectively held values of care, recognition, and reciprocity. CBTL exists within contexts of race and coloniality, but seeks to form solidarities, broader practices, and ways of relating within creative industries.

Living Community Psychology: Dominique Thomas

Posted in: Anti-Racism, Inspiration | Tags: Living Community Psychology
Published in: The Community Psychologist
Dominique Thomas is an early career Community Psychologist, that brings to his work lived experience, both as a black person and raised within a lower-income family. Surrounded by a supportive village of nurturing teachers and a determined grandmother, and being named “gifted” early, he has been able to succeed academically. Nevertheless, his early disadvantages can […]

Reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness in Communities of Color

Posted in: Anti-Racism, Mental Health | Tags: Featured Content
Published in: American Journal of Community Psychology
We can take an action-oriented approach to identify how cultural aspects of mental illness stigma manifest for racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Culturally salient interventions can promote change and empowerment at systemic and individual levels.