EMBRacing Racial Stress and Trauma: Preliminary Feasibility and Coping Responses of a Racial Socialization Intervention

Journal of Black Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 25-46

  Anderson, Riana Elyse ^a   McKenny, Monique ^b   Mitchell, Amari ^c   Koku, Lydia ^d   Stevenson, Howard C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

coping; families; feasibility; intervention; racial discrimination; racial socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041300028     PISSN: 00957984     EISSN: 15524558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095798417732930     Document Type: Article

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