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5 - Black Women and Trauma

from Part I - Black Women in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

Donna Baptiste  and
Adia Gooden
By
Candice Norcott
Donna Baptiste
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
Adia Gooden
Affiliation:
Unconditionally Worthy, Co.
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Summary

Given their intersecting, historically oppressed identities, Black women are more likely to be exposed to traumatic experiences than other racial groups. In this chapter we review the historical, systemic and institutional, and individual trauma that impacts the mental health of Black women. We provide a framework for treating trauma with Black women that is based on intersectionality and Black feminist theory. Further, we share the key components of providing trauma-informed care and best practices clinicians can use when supporting Black women in healing from trauma.

Keywords

traumaracial traumahistorical traumasystemic traumaBlack womenhealingBlack feminismintersectionality
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Promoting Black Women's Mental Health
What Practitioners Should Know and Do
 , pp. 106 - 130
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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