The American Medical Association has declared institutional racism an urgent public health issue and vowed to eradicate discrimination in health care.
In addition, the American Psychological Association issued a strongly worded statement in August:
"Ending systemic racism in America must be a public health priority. Decades of institutional racism, bias, discrimination, racial profiling and violence have taken a heavy psychological toll on Black Americans."
Join me and Teddi Williams RN Veteran for the latest The EdUp Experience EdUp Unplugged webseries episode, where we discuss the trauma of racism, how this trauma manifests in the Black community and resources for managing racism-induced stress.
As a public health nurse for 28 years, an Army veteran who served in the Gulf war, and a proud descendant of Black Wall Street, I have so much respect for Teddi's service to our community and to our country. And she has patiently talked me through more than one panic attack, since the George Floyd murder.
She provides plenty of insight from her tenure in behavioral health and has some very astute advice for how to cope with the world around us in the wake of covid-19 and racial injustice.
In addition, Teddi shared some helpful resources from her own research:
https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/be-female-anxious-and-black
