Health professionals who care for children will find a thoughtful and hands-on resource to address racism and race-related issues in their practices in this essay collection. Leading experts from across disciplines frame the issues and provide practical information on prevention, intervention, and anticipatory guidance. Each chapter is grounded in the recommendations outlined in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement “The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health.” The AAP is committed to reducing the ongoing costs and burden of racism to children, the health care system, and society—this book is an important contribution to that effort and ongoing conversation. Available for purchase at https://www.aap.org/Untangling-the-Thread-of-Racism-A-Primer-for-Pediatric-Health-Professionals-Paperback
24: Racial Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice
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Published:October 2023
Camille Broussard, MD, MPH, Nia Imani Bodrick, MD, MPH, "Racial Trauma and Trauma-Informed Practice", Untangling the Thread of Racism: A Primer for Pediatric Health Professionals, American Academy of Pediatrics, Maria Trent, MD, MPH, FSAHM, FAAP, Danielle G. Dooley, MD, MPhil, FAAP, Jacqueline Dougé, MD, MPH, FAAP
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Since the seminal 1998 study linking adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and lifelong health, ACEs have included racism. Racial or race-based traumatic stress includes overt, covert, violent, threatening, interpersonal, community-level, onetime, periodic, or daily experiences. This chapter provides examples of historical and contemporary racial trauma in the United States to ground an understanding of the need to provide culturally and racially responsive care, illustrates how to recognize trauma symptoms associated with race-based stress, and concludes with practice recommendations.
Keywords: trauma-informed practice, racial trauma, resiliency
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