Black Mental Health
Black in Mental Health – Stigma
Mental health stigma is found in American society as a whole, but is particularly pronounced in our Black communities. While we dismantle structural racism in the mental health field, we must also dismantle mental health stigma within ourselves.
Black in Mental Health – Self Care
In the black community, we believe in the grind and working 10x harder than everyone else in order to get where we want to be. Yet, in this flow and journey to making our dreams a reality we rarely take time to collect our thoughts or just breathe. Let’s start to change that.
Black in Mental Health – Stories
For Black in Mental Health Stories, we humbly shared our peers’ experiences, an article on how racism is still very real today, and our interview featuring our very own Khara Vassell.
Black in Mental Health – Identity
What do you know about identity? Erik Erikson, a famous psychologist, called "identity development the key developmental milestone in adolescence." And that’s true, to a certain extent.
Black in Mental Health – Anti-Black Racism
Graduate Student Sarah Fleurestil walks us through the dehumanization found in our country’s history and points us towards a future of hope in mental health.
Black In Mental Health – Awareness
With all the ways we are usually viewed in society and even in counseling, it is detrimental that we as black people raise awareness and support ourselves in the development of research towards black people.
Black In Mental Health – Roll Call
Yesterday was the beginning of Black Mental Health Week. Our SEHD students in the Master’s in Mental Health Counseling Program are creating videos to tell their individual stories and/or to discuss the topic. We will be sharing them all week.
