Abstract Systems of oppression have shaped the prejudicial treatment of Black people
based on the appearance of their hair, from the era of chattel enslavement to present-day …

Racism continues to reveal disastrous effects on the Black community. There exists no
behavior-analytic literature with a specific focus on ending Black psychological suffering due …

A 2019 review article modified the socio-ecological model to contextualize pain disparities
among different ethnoracial groups; however, the broad scope of this 2019 review …

Violence victimization is prevalent in the US and is linked to costly mental health outcomes,
including dissociation and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Black Americans are at …

In 1851, during the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth implored “And ain't
I a woman”(1992) to explain how her Blackness resulted in differential treatment as a …

Using structured-tabular thematic analysis, this study examines Black people's
conceptualizations of mental health in response to the following question: What is mental …

Background Prior research has associated spoken language use with depression, yet
studies often involve small or non-clinical samples and face challenges in the manual …

Black women with tightly coiled hair are faced with the unique health challenge of abstaining
from exercise or other self-care behaviors to maintain hairstyles that are often expensive …

ABSTRACT For African American women, hair is a key site of identity formation and self-
esteem that has been largely ignored by education researchers. Fifty-six African American …

In 2020, the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) drew attention to the history of
racism in the United States on the creation and exacerbation of extant medical racial …