Impairments to the “Therapeutic Minding” of Black Boys

2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs

**HYBRID EVENT**
In-Person at the Scarsdale Public Library or Live on Zoom!

Currently, a number of books have been written, such as Ken Corbett’s, Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities; Jonathan Haidt’s, The Anxious Generation; and Richard Reeves, Of Boys and Men, addressing the social, psychological, and mental health challenges faced by male youth and youth in general.  A major benefit of these works is that they are available to the public as well as to professional audiences.  In addition, unlike a considerable number of their predecessors, efforts are made to address the different plight of Black youth or boys.

This presentation is an attempt to request psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists to examine systemic racism and its unacknowledged effects upon the developing psyches of Black youth. It is particularly advantageous to consider the following: transgenerational trauma as a legacy from slavery, our educational and apartheid institutional arrangements of living, and the impediments to cross racial therapeutic engagement.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A Fellow-training and supervising analyst on the faculty of IPTAR, he is also faculty and founder of the Adelphi Derner/ Hempstead Child Clinic and Supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program and faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is also the Honorary Institute Dean of the Harlem Family Institute. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at over 125 conferences and panel discussions on issues pertaining to white racism, generational trauma among African Americans, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of Color, and is a subject of the documentary, Your Mum and Dad. He Is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and was a member of the Holmes Commission. In addition, he is a recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of SPPP (Div. 39) APA.

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