Racial Trauma

Faculty: Annie Lee Jones, PhD & Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD
Dates: January 31; February 7, 21 & 28; 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Tuition: $ 720
CE credits: 12

This seminar examines racial trauma from a broad perspective that includes the historical and contemporary economic, social, political, legal, and interpersonal aspects of the pain and suffering experienced by BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/People of Color). The effects of the anxieties and projected fears that are part of racialized encounters will be explored.

Annie Lee Jones, PhD

Dr. Annie Lee Jones is a clinical psychologist at the NY Harbor Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living Center, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Queens, New York. Dr. Jones is faculty and co-chair of the Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Class, and Language Committee at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she completed her psychoanalytic training. She is also a faculty member at Adelphi University, The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, and is a Fellow and training Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She has taught courses at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City. Dr Jones is a founding member of format pdfBlack Psychoanalysts Speak, Inc. Dr. Jones is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her research interests include the study of classical texts on the origin of constructs related to the unconscious; the intrapsychic lives of black American men and women; the economics of racialized internal processes, particularly the racialized third in sociopolitical encounters; and the clinical writings of Fanon. She has presented papers at the Freud Museum and several other venues.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD

Dr. Kirkland Vaughans is a NYS licensed psychologist and certified psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City. He is on faculty at the Derner School of Psychology’s undergraduate, graduate and Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

Dr. Vaughans is the founding editor of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. He has made JICAP a special venue for the publication of papers on the treatment of children of diverse ethnic groups and economic backgrounds. He is the first editor of the seminal two-volume book, The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents.

Credentialing Information

Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0185; by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0607.

Cancellation Policy

Full refunds are issued for cancellations made up to 7 working days before the event. Cancellations of less than 7 days for any reason, or no-shows are not refunded. Credit towards a future event/workshop are issued for cancellations less than 7 days and up to 24 hours before the event. No credit is issued for cancellations less than 24 hours before the events or no-shows.