Part Five of Family Eldercare’s Series on Navigating Racial Trauma
If you are a mental health professional seeking more information on how to best support clients who are experiencing racial trauma, or clients who are of a different race/ethnicity than yourself, the following resources are available to you:
Informational and Peer Reviewed Articles:
- An Overview of Racial Trauma
- Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
- Healing the Hidden Wounds of Racial Trauma
- Trauma Informed Grief Counseling for Older BIPOC Individuals
- Assessing racial trauma with the Trauma Symptoms of Discrimination Scale
- Combatting the conspiracy of silence: Clinician recommendations for talking about racism-related events with youth of color
- A Psychometric Investigation of Racial Trauma Symptoms Using a Semi-Structured Clinical Interview With a Trauma Checklist (UnRESTS)
Referring your client to a Black therapist in the Greater Austin Area:
- Black Men’s Health Clinic,
- Colors of Austin Counseling
- Crave Counseling
- Austin Area African American Behavioral Health Network
Online Options: Expanding your search to online or virtual (teletherapy) sessions will increase your possibility of finding the right match for you.
This post is part of the “Navigating Racial Trauma” blog series brought to you by Family Eldercare. Each Thursday in August, look for a new post exploring cultural issues affecting Black mental health and how these issues impact Aging while Black. For additional information about Family Eldercare counseling services, please visit the In-Home Counseling webpage.
