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Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
Intersectional Experiences, Stigma-Related Stress, and Behavioral Health Among African American LGBTQ+ Individuals
Event Date: December 1, 2023
Time: 9 AM – 1:30 PM
Location: Online
Event Speaker: Skyler Jackson, PhD
CE credit available.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Skyler Jackson is an award-winning stigma researcher, inclusive
mental health clinician, and experienced organizational consultant. He
received his BA in Psychology from Stanford University and his PhD in
Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Currently, Dr. Jackson is an Assistant Professor within the Social and
Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health. He is one of two
faculty members working within the Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative
and is an affiliate of Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research
on AIDS (CIRA).
Course Description:
Race-based injustices not only effect the physical well-being of African Americans, resulting in health inequities; it also effects the mental health status of African Americans and their wider communities, resulting in behavioral inequities. This presentation will explore the emotional race-based injustices of racial trauma, types of race-based traumatic stresses, racial battle fatigue, racial imposter syndrome and post traumatic slave syndrome. Diagnostic, assessment, and treatment approaches will be presented to address these emotional race-based injustices.
