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Processing Racial Trauma

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URL:

https://www.ucla.edu/connections/events/racial-trauma

Featuring:

Tyrone Howard, PhD and Nicole Green, PhD

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Education Racial Trauma Systemic Racism

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Overview

Tyrone Howard, UCLA professor of education and director of the UCLA Black Male Institute, hosts a conversation with Nicole Green, executive director of UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services come together to discuss processing complex racial trauma and how we care for ourselves during these overwhelming times, particularly given the resurgence of White Nationalism, the killings of Black cis and trans women and men, and the racially disparate impact of COVID-19.

Keywords: black health and wellbeing, COVID-19, emotion regulation, historical trauma, racism, self-care, support, teaching

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