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Title: Family Trauma and African American Males: working with chronic offenders


1
Family Trauma and African American Males working
with chronic offenders
  • Sam Simmons, ADC, Behavioral consultant,
    facilitator and mediator.
  • James Muhammad, Consultant, teacher, facilitator,
    mediator and spiritual leader.

2
Welcome Objectives
  • The link of present and past traumatic
    experiences of social, family and community
    violence.
  • The importance of being aware of the link by both
    clinician and client to improve outcomes.
  • Strategies to reach the target audience to
    generate motivation to change.

3
The Client
  • African-American men, between the ages of 18 to
    35.
  • Often come from large urban settings devastated
    by multigenerational experience of poverty, drugs
    and violence (Chicago, Detroit, etc.)
  • Parents and grandparents effected by the Crack
    Era (Epidemic 1984 to1990).

4
The Client (cont.)
  • Have experienced frequent traumatic experiences
    as both perpetrator and victim in their domestic
    and community settings.
  • Abusive and/or violent behavior is
    multigenerational (and all that they know) and is
    tied directly to their identity.

5
The Client (cont.)
  • these men are typically
  • undereducated
  • have poor emotional regulation
  • have little or no work experience
  • raised in a single parent female demanded home
  • are female-dependent

6
The Client (cont.)
  • hyper-masculine identity featuring
  • emotional numbness
  • fear/shame inducement
  • misogyny
  • a high pain threshold
  • sexual prowess.
  • Incarceration seen as a rite of passage that
    seals hyper-masculine identity.

7
Resulting in.
  • If you question their behavior directly, they
    feel you are attacking them (manhood) and they
    will attack back and/or shut down.
  • Them often feeling that the social, economic and
    educational systems around them have failed
    and/or excluded them.

8
Resulting in.
  • Have little or no healthy involvement in the
    positive activities that foster health
    self-esteem, success in mainstream life and hope
    for a future.
  • Experiences of attachment, emotional regulation,
    and self-concept difficulties.
  • Feel they have nothing to lose.

9
Resulting in.
  • Not responding successfully to
  • traditional male batterer intervention programs
  • the threat of jail or imminent incarceration.
  • Chronic offenders/burden on the system

10
Linking the Past Trauma
  • A nation of cowards chronic offenders
  • The design for perpetual servitude
  • All history is a current event
  • The unimpeachable call for IRCEL
  • The inevitability of cognitive dissonance

11
Linking the Past Trauma
  • Uncovering the African study of the nature of
    values value judgments
  • The African Maafas uninterrupted impacts on
    todays chronic offender
  • The stumbling-block of Cognitive Dissonance
  • The way you see someone

12
Linking the Past Trauma
  • The cultural/educational annihilation the
    resultant Frankenstein
  • Which is the greater predictor of a chronic
    offenders success, IQ or EQ?
  • The internalized oppression the need for
    reparations/CASH
  • The indispensability of Sankofa

13
Linking the Past Trauma
  • Re-defining Black manhood to meet todays
    requirements
  • Dealing with our pain holistically to get oooow!
  • Honoring WASH MOHA!!!

14
Concepts
  • Self-defeating Behaviors focused on the
    relationship of generational trauma and/or a
    traumatic event to present behavior and the
    ability to change.
  • Emotion Management focused on fear, anger,
    shame, impulse control and stress management
  • Stages of Change focused on the process and
    barriers to change.

15
Strategies/Objectives
  • To offer a safe place to receive feedback.
  • address personal trauma and attachment issues
  • taking an honest look at beliefs and behaviors
    that act as self-imposed barriers to making
    sustainable growth and change.

16
Strategies/Objectives
  • To address various ways to regulate and express
    their emotions in a manner that leads to
    self-respect and decrease the likelihood of
    re-offending and/or acting out violently.
  • To assist them in identifying replacement
    thoughts based on the evidence around them to
    enhance their ability to be a parent, be
    independent and act nonviolently.

17
Questions and Answers
18
References Resources
  • Self-Defeating Behaviors Free Yourself from the
    Habits, Compulsions, Feelings, and Attitudes That
    Hold You Back " by Drs. Milton Cudney and Robert
    Hardy, HarperCollins, 1991.
  • Motivational interviewing preparing people to
    change addictive behavior. Prochaska JO,
    DiClemente CC, Norcross JC. In search of how
    people change. Am Psychol 1992471102-4, and
    Miller WR, Rollnick S., New York Guilford,
    1991191-202.
  • University of Rhode Island Change Assessment
    Scale (URICA) McConnaughy, E. A., Prochaska, J.
    O. and Velicer, W.F. (1983).  Stages of change in
    psychotherapy Measurement and sample profiles. 
    Psychotherapy Theory, Research, and Practice 20,
    368-375.
  • DeGruy J. D., Brennan, E., Briggs, (November
    2005). African American Adolescent Respect Scale
    A Measure of Prosocial Attitude. Research on
    Social Work Practice, 15 (6) pp. 462-469.

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References Resources
  • Leary, DeGruy, Joy. Post Traumatic Slave
    Syndrome Americas Legacy of Enduring Injury and
    Healing, Uptone Press, 2005
  • I Am a Man and HIP-HOP BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES,
    produced and directed by Byron Hurt
  • Family Violence and Men of Color Healing the
    Wounded Male Spirit (Springer Series Focus on
    Men) by Ricardo, Ph.D. Carrillo (Editor), Jerry
    Tello (Editor)
  • Lay My Burden Down Unraveling Suicide and the
    Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans by
    Alvin F. Poussaint (Author)
  • The Greatest Taboo Homosexuality in Black
    Communities by Delroy Constantine-Simms (Editor),
    Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Author)
  • Black Pain It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
    by Terrie Williams (Hardcover - Jan 8, 2008)

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References Resources
  • Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by
    Na'im Akbar (Paperback - Jun 1996
  • Handbook of African American Psychology by Dr.
    Helen A. Neville, Dr. Brendesha M. Tynes, and Dr.
    Shawn O. Utsey (Paperback - Nov 12, 2008)
  • Healing the Shame that Binds You (Recovery
    Classics) by John Bradshaw (Paperback - Oct 15,
    2005)
  • Violence Reflections on a National Epidemic by
    James Gilligan (Paperback - April 29, 1997)
  • Preventing Violence (Prospects for Tomorrow) by
    James Gilligan (Paperback - Jul 2001)
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