Healing Racial Stress Workbook for Black Teens: Skills to Help You Manage Emotions, Resist Racism, and Feel Empowered (16pt Large Print Format)

by Jessica Henry

Overview

Racial stress resulting from discrimination can negatively impact teens' emotional, physical, and mental health with lifelong consequences. This workbook offers Black teens evidence-based strategies to manage emotions in the face of race-based stress due to microaggressions, implicit bias, overt racism, and vicarious racism-and provides tools to help teens feel empowered to resist racism and thrive throughout their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781038779267
Publisher:	ReadHowYouWant
Publication date:	03/05/2024
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Jessica S. Henry, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Georgia. She is the co-founder and vice president of program development and evaluation for the Black Mental Wellness Corp., and founder and CEO of Community Impact: Consultation & Psychological Services-a trauma-informed organization whose mission is to provide trauma-informed services to individuals and organizations affected by traumatic events. Henry is the current senior director of behavioral health for one of Washington, DC's largest Federally Qualified Health Centers, and previous clinical director of a level-5 close security male prison and Georgia's largest youth homeless shelter. Overall, Henry is passionate about the mental health of individuals in Black and under resourced communities and has specialized in increasing access to treatment and providing the highest quality of evidence-based mental health treatment services to underserved youth, families, and adults exposed to traumatic events (e.g., community violence, abuse, neglect). She received her B.S. from Howard University, M.A. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The George Washington University. She is from the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area. For more information about Henry, please visit BlackMentalWellness.com or ImpactTheCommunity.com. She can also be found on Instagram @BlackMentalWellness or @CommunityImpact_CP.Farzana T. Saleem, PhD, received her PhD in clinical-community psychology, and is an assistant professor in the graduate school of education at Stanford University. Her research examines the influence of racial stressors and culturally relevant practices on adolescents' psychological health and adjustment, with a focus on understanding the process and contextual nuance of how youth learn about race and respond to racism (often termed, ethnic-racial socialization) across families and schools. She is codeveloper of the group-based intervention, TRANSFORM,