@article{ref1,
title="Choosing life in the Black community, achieving the dream: a traumatic stress curriculum pilot study",
journal="Community mental health journal",
year="2020",
author="Miller, Jonathan and Dawud, Barite and Linder, Harvey and Willis, Sharif and Babington-Johnson, Alfred",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This study measured changes in post-traumatic stress symptoms and collective-efficacy in African Americans participating in cohorts of &quot;Choosing Life in the Black Community: Achieving the Dream&quot;, an Afrocentricity-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy curriculum for trauma. Participants were recruited by key leaders in the black community of the Twin Cities, Minnesota Metropolitan Area and completed a 6-week group counselling curriculum led by lay health workers and supervised by professional psychologists. Twenty-six participants provided pre- and post-curriculum responses to validated measures of post-traumatic stress symptoms, collective-efficacy and adverse childhood experiences. Thirteen participants provided semi-structured interviews. Pre- to post-curriculum change score were calculated for post-traumatic stress symptoms and collective-efficacy. Interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. Post-traumatic stress symptoms decreased and collective-efficacy increased, though neither change achieved statistical significance. Participants with more adverse childhood experiences showed significantly greater decreases in post-traumatic stress symptoms. There is evidence that this program may be particularly effective in participants that have greater past experiences of trauma.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0010-3853",
doi="10.1007/s10597-020-00738-w",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00738-w"
}