When the levees break: the cost of vicarious trauma,microaggressions and emotional labor for Black administrators and faculty engaging in race work at traditionally White institutions

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to offer insight to administrators and human resource professionals at Traditionally White Institutions (TWIs) about developing action plans that provide meaningful support to Black administrators and faculty who are coping with racial trauma. Operationalizing tenets of Critical Race Methodology (CRM), the counter-narratives presented here are drawn from 15 years of unpublished professional and personal communication created by an individual Black faculty and administrator. The lectures, conference presentations, commencement addresses and other ephemera trace the development of battlements and emotional battle scars over the early years of one scholar-activist’s career at TWIs. The calamitous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is considered in this context both as metaphor and collective psychic wound. As such, it illuminates other instances of vicarious trauma, foreshadows the Movement for Black Lives, and provides a devastating illustration of administrative unpreparedness. Revealing the ramifications of racial trauma can serve to help others who suffer to feel less alone and can provide stakeholders in higher education with valuable knowledge for the sake not only of recruitment and retention, but institutional transformation.     

A factor analytic study of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form in an all-female South African sample with and without HIV infection

BackgroundThe Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) is widely used around the world but no norms have been established for South African users of the CTQ. The CTQ has been employed in South Africa but not yet validated. The present study aims to address this gap. There is great need in both clinical and research settings for an assessment tool that adequately measures childhood trauma, a sensitive and challenging construct to measure.ObjectiveThis study explores the psychometric properties of the CTQ-SF in an all-female cohort living with and without HIV infection in South Africa, the first study of its kind in this population.Participants and settingThe CTQ-SF was administered to 314 women (170 HIV uninfected; 144 HIV infected) in Cape Town, South Africa.MethodInternal consistency of the CTQ-SF was determined by Cronbach alpha coefficients. Using Lisrel, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed, followed by an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to explore an alternative factor structure model in this cohort.ResultsFor the group as a whole, the model fit was acceptable but not good. However, for the sub-sample of women living with HIV, the CFA revealed poor model fit. The EFA revealed a three-factor model, with mostly stable factor loadings for four of the five subscales. However, the Physical Neglect (PN) subscale cross loaded on two of the three factors.ConclusionOur findings revealed an alternative factor structure from the original model in this study cohort. The PN subscale does not have stable factor loadings and is not homogenous. The original instrument may therefore benefit from revision for use in this population. Measures such as the CTQ can be informative for preventative strategies in HIV-infected or at-risk youth and for clinical interventions aimed at mitigating the negative psychological sequelae of childhood maltreatment.     

补充磷脂对大鼠腓肠肌钝挫伤收缩力、松弛特性及自由基清除的影响

为了研究补充磷脂对大鼠腓肠肌钝挫伤恢复效果,采用重物下落装置建立急性骨骼肌钝挫伤模型,并于损伤后补充磷脂,检测补充磷脂对损伤肌肉的收缩力及松弛特性、自由基清除等的影响。结果发现,大鼠腓肠肌在受到钝挫伤后的第10天及第17天的收缩力,补充磷脂组收缩应力显著高于自然愈合组;损伤后第10天,补充磷脂能使应力松弛恢复接近正常肌肉水平,而自然愈合组仍显著性高于对照组;损伤后第2-10天,补充磷脂能显著提高腓肠肌超氧化物歧化酶活性,同时显著降低腓肠肌中丙二醛的含量。因此,补充磷脂能明显改善大鼠急性骨骼肌钝挫伤后的收缩力和恢复应力衰减,提高骨骼肌中超氧化物歧化酶活性,降低腓肠肌中丙二醛含量,更好地促进自由基的清除,促进损伤肌肉修复。     

乌热尔图小说的民间情怀

乌热尔图多年的底层生活经历,使他不自觉地站在民间的立场上。观照猎村、底层和猎民的命运沉浮。表现民间的智慧、道德理想与原始正义,反思社会现代化进程带给鄂温克猎人的生活灾难和精神创伤,表现出对民间文化中自由自在与原始生命力的情感认同。     

Trauma,Meaning Making,and Loneliness in College Students

ABSTRACT

The present study (N = 621) explored relationships between meaning making (i.e., meaning presence and meaning search) and loneliness in college students who have experienced trauma. In addition, the study examined group differences in meaning variables and loneliness, comparing college students who have and have not experienced trauma. The results suggest that loneliness and meaning search are more present in college students who have experienced trauma. Further, meaning presence and meaning search both predict experiences of loneliness within this sample.     

Take Two Pills and Call Me in December

Students utilize university counseling center services to address distress related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Since counseling centers services such as group work or general psychotherapy may not address specific PTSD-symptom reduction, centers often give community referrals in such cases. Evidence-based therapies (EBTs), including Prolonged Exposure Therapy, have the potential to be offered within counseling center services, however. Prolonged exposure consistently provides significant symptom relief to patients with the most severe PTSD symptoms within 10–12 sessions. This article presents and examines two case examples of students who participated in a full prolonged exposure protocol within a counseling center clinic.     

“Youth Elements”in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises is one of the famous works of Ernest Hemingway. It reflects strong youth elements. The heroes and heroines are all young persons, and in this novel Hemingway describes the sufferin...     

对《洛丽塔》的创伤解读

作为创伤亲历者的纳博科夫,在其代表作《洛丽塔》中创造了两个同样遭遇创伤的人物——亨伯特与洛丽塔。创伤给三者的身心均带来了不可磨灭的影响。由于三者以不同的姿态面对创伤,最终拥有了截然不同的人生。积极应对创伤,便可获得美好人生,反之,创伤很可能会导致悲剧的发生。     

高校高水平篮球运动员膝、踝关节损伤的调查研究与预防

通过对高校高水平篮球运动员膝、踝关节运动损伤情况进行调查统计，了解引起篮球运动中膝、踩关节运动损伤的原因及有效的预防方法，从而使运动员在训练和比赛中有效防止及减少此类损伤的发生。