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Psychosocial Outcomes Of African American Traumatic Race-Based Stress, Zenith Lamb
Psychosocial Outcomes Of African American Traumatic Race-Based Stress, Zenith Lamb
Senior Theses
Most research into trauma-related mental health concerns has focused predominantly on European American participants, leading to many African American individuals receiving inaccurate diagnoses, if they are able to receive diagnoses at all. This project sought to help fill that gap by identifying clear definitions and examples of “racial trauma” and “race-based stress” - as defined during participation in a focus group interview by the collective experience-based responses of two undergraduate African American students at a predominantly White institution - and identifying symptoms of posttraumatic stress and dissociation - measured by an online survey distributed to the participants that included questions …