Choosing Life in the Black Community, Achieving the Dream: A Traumatic Stress Curriculum Pilot Study
| Autor: | Barite Dawud, Jonathan M. Miller, Sharif Willis, Harvey Linder, Alfred Babington-Johnson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Health (social science)
medicine.medical_treatment Poison control Pilot Projects Suicide prevention Article Group psychotherapy Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Curriculum Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Traumatic stress 030227 psychiatry Cognitive behavioral therapy Black or African American Psychiatry and Mental health Thematic analysis Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Community Ment Health J |
| ISSN: | 1573-2789 |
| Popis: | This study measured changes in post-traumatic stress symptoms and collective-efficacy in African Americans participating in cohorts of "Choosing Life in the Black Community: Achieving the Dream", an Afrocentricity-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy curriculum for trauma. Participants were recruited by key leaders in the black community of the Twin Cities, Minnesota Metropolitan Area and completed a 6-week group counselling curriculum led by lay health workers and supervised by professional psychologists. Twenty-six participants provided pre- and post-curriculum responses to validated measures of post-traumatic stress symptoms, collective-efficacy and adverse childhood experiences. Thirteen participants provided semi-structured interviews. Pre- to post-curriculum change score were calculated for post-traumatic stress symptoms and collective-efficacy. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. Post-traumatic stress symptoms decreased and collective-efficacy increased, though neither change achieved statistical significance. Participants with more adverse childhood experiences showed significantly greater decreases in post-traumatic stress symptoms. There is evidence that this program may be particularly effective in participants that have greater past experiences of trauma. |
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