BIPOC Mental Health Resources
Feature BIPOC Articles
Dealing With Racial Stress as a Black Parent
The stress Black parents feel encompasses a sense of hopelessness and confusion about knowing how to protect their children and prepare them to function and protect themselves. Seeking mental health support, whether individual therapy or group therapy, can be one of the keys to processing trauma and buffering stress as a Black parent.by: Keisha Henry, MSW, LCSW
Intergenerational Trauma: What It Is & How to Heal
Intergenerational trauma describes trauma affecting not just one generation, but several generations from one traumatic event. Transgenerational trauma can have lasting effects mentally if the cycle is not broken.by: Dakota King-White, Ph.D., LPC
FAQ About BIPOC Issues
What Is Learned Helplessness?
Learned helplessness occurs when people are repeatedly exposed to trauma, and all attempts they make to fight or challenge their situation are unsuccessful, regardless of their efforts. As people continue to lose control in traumatic situations, they may begin to experience helplessness.
What Is Racial Trauma?
Racial trauma is often acquired via repeated exposure to discriminatory and pejorative situations that are displayed in the media. These traumas can be experienced individually or within communities.
How Does Racism Impact Mental Health?
Navigating a world in which your racial group is systematically and perpetually treated unfairly, threatened, harassed, and ostracized is exhausting. The effects of racism are often overlooked as they are disguised within typical presentations of mental health disorders, such as anxiety disorders, depressive disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).