POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME- A CONVERSATION WITH DR. JOY DEGRUY

http://www.joydegruy.com/

On Sunday afternoon March 22, 2009 Black Student Achievement: YES, WE CAN!
presented Cultural Conversations with
Dr. Joy DeGruy (formerly Leary)
in a Youth Summit with Dr. DeGruy entitled “Understanding our History,
Understanding Ourselves,” at Hill Regional Career High School
Auditorium.

The next morning on Monday, March 23, 2009
a Community Summit with Dr. DeGruy, teachers, counselors,
social workers, and others who work with youth, entitled
“Understanding Black History, Understanding the Young
People We Serve,” took place in the Lecture Hall at the Cooperative Arts &
Humanities High School.

It has become popular in some circles to discuss whether we are in a post-racial
society.The two enlightening and revealing presentations by Dr. Degruy awoke and catalyzed
the minds of all present to viewing the march of history from a more insightful perspective.

Dr. DeGruy has more than 20 years of experience in the field of social work and is the
author of Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing , a ground-breaking book that shows how the myth of Black inferiority is still affecting people today and how the Black community can heal.


Sponsors included
Community Healing Network http://www.communityhealingnet.org/ • Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church • New Haven
Chapter of Girlfriends • New Haven Public Schools • Yale’s African American Affinity Group, Office of New Haven & State Affairs, University Libraries • William Graustein

Editors Note:

As a result of twelve years of quantitative and qualitative research Dr. DeGruy has developed her theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American Communities throughout the United states and the Diaspora.

Dr. DeGruy's book "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing" incorporates her research in both America and Africa, as well as her twenty years experience as a social work practitioner and consultant to public and private organizations.
In her book Dr. DeGruy first exposes the reader to the conditions that led to the Atlantic slave trade and allowed the pursuant racism and efforts at repression to continue through the present day. She then looks at the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that our ancestors faced as the result of the slave trade. Next she discusses the adaptive behaviors they developed, both positive and negative, that allowed them to survive and often even thrive. Dr. DeGruy concludes by reevaluating those adaptive behaviors that have been passed down through generations and where appropriate, she explores replacing behaviors which are today maladaptive with ones that will promote, ensure and sustain the healing and advancement of African American culture.

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