Event Details:

 

Jennifer M. Gomez, Ph.D. presents

Cultural Betrayal Trauma Theory

Author of The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls: A Black Feminist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse presents on cultural betrayal trauma theory.

"In cultural betrayal trauma theory, I propose that societal trauma (e.g., discrimination) creates the context for interpersonal trauma within marginalized communities to be uniquely harmful."

Bio:
Jennifer M. Gomez, former Ford Fellow, is a Black feminist trauma researcher and critical race scholar who developed cultural betrayal trauma theory to examine the impact of oppression on outcomes of violence on individuals and communities who are marginalized. Her book "The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women & Girls: A Black Feminist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse" is relevant for diverse professional and student audiences: race scholars, trauma researchers, trauma clinicians, Black feminists/womanists, changemakers/advocates/activists, Black women survivors, and anyone who wants to better understand and support Black women and girl survivors.
 

Gomez joined BUSSW in 2022 as an assistant professor and faculty affiliate at the School's Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health. She is also a 2023-24 research affiliate with the BU's Center for Antiracist Research. She is a Board Member, Chair of the Research Advisory Committee, and research grant reviewer at the Center for Institutional Courage; faculty affiliate at University of Michigan's RacismLab; research scientist at the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research, funded by the National Institute on Aging; and member of the Scientific Committee of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation.
 

Gomez is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical & Child Adolescent Psychology and the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. Her research has been published in over 100 peer-reviewed journals, books, newsletters, regional and national media outlets, and the Open Science Framework.
 

October 30, 2023
International Center, room 305
4:00 PM

 

Discussion and conversation to follow presentation

 

Buy The Book! 
https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/cultural-betrayal 
 

Co-Sponsored by:

Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health,
Dept. of African American and African Studies,
School of Criminal Justice,
School of Social Work,
Dept. of Sociology,
College of Social Science