Racial microaggressions: Critical questions, state of the science, and new directions

MT Williams - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Racial microaggressions are an insidious form of racism with devastating mental-health
outcomes, but the concept has not been embraced by all scholars. This article provides an …

State of the science on racial microaggressions

M Osman, MT Williams, A Alftieh - Behavior Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite racism being widespread and research evidence of racial disparities growing, those
who lack the lived experience of racial oppression often find it difficult to acknowledge this …

Racial justice allyship requires civil courage: A behavioral prescription for moral growth and change.

MT Williams, S Faber, A Nepton… - American …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
In racialized societies, race divides people, prioritizes some groups over others, and directly
impacts opportunities and outcomes in life. These missed opportunities and altered …

An evidence-based approach for treating stress and trauma due to racism

MT Williams, S Holmes, M Zare, A Haeny… - Cognitive and Behavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Racism can be stressful or even traumatizing. Psychological unwellness emerges out of the
confluence of historical, cultural, and individual experiences, and resulting syndromes may …

[HTML][HTML] The need for psychedelic-assisted therapy in the black community and the burdens of its provision

DT Smith, SC Faber, NCT Buchanan, D Foster… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Psychedelic medicine is an emerging field that examines entheogens, psychoactive
substances that produce non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC). 3, 4 …

Being an anti-racist clinician

MT Williams, SC Faber, C Duniya - The Cognitive Behaviour …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Racism is a pervasive problem in Western society, leading to mental and physical
unwellness in people from racialized groups. Psychology began as a racist discipline and …

Sex, gender, and sexual orientation in psychological research: Exploring data trends & researcher opinions

EK Lefler, J Tabler, TM Abu-Ramadan… - Psychological …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychology researchers have historically neglected variables related to sex, gender, and
sexual orientation, leading to the erasure of sex, gender, and sexual orientation in research …

Compassion as a tool for allyship and anti-racism

MM Karnaze, RM Rajagopalan, LT Eyler… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Racist systems, policies, and institutions subvert the quality of life for minoritized individuals
and groups, across all indicators, from education and employment, to health, to community …

The illusion of inclusion: contextual behavioral science and the Black community

SC Faber, IW Metzger, J La Torre, C Fisher… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Anti-racism approaches require an honest examination of cause, impact, and committed
action to change, despite discomfort and without experiential avoidance. While contextual …

Getting to the root of the problem: Supporting clients with lived-experiences of systemic discrimination

A Bartlett, S Faber, M Williams, K Saxberg - Chronic Stress, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
For many marginalized people, coping with discrimination is not a temporary condition.
Rather it is endemic to living in a discriminatory society and a source of ongoing stress. In …