N.C.O.B.R.A.
National Coalition of Blacks for
Reparations in America
DINNER/LECTURE SERIES
P.T.S.D. Post
Traumatic Slavery
Disorder What the Experts
Still Get Wrong!
SOLD OUT!!
Friday,
November 9, 2007
Umar
R. Abdullah-Johnson, NCSP Kinsman to Frederick Douglass Psychologist * Educator * Scholar umarthepsychologist@yahoo.com
POST-TRAUMATIC SLAVERY
DISORDER: WHAT THE EXPERTS STILL GET WRONG!"
Umar R. Abdullah-Johnson
Nationally
Certified School Psychologist
KINSMAN
TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS
An
extension of the presenter's seminar offered at the most recent NCOBRA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE held at Temple University this past summer, this
presentation will focus on a critical analysis and understanding of what is
commonly referred to as Post-Traumatic Slavery Disorder (PTSD). The
presenter's alternative conceptualization of this syndrome will present it
not as a single disorder, but as a cluster of disorders, that are
more accurately referred to as The Psycho-Racial Spiritual Diseases of
Americanized Africans (PRSDAA). The multiple subtypes will be given as
well as an a comparative analysis of the PRSDAA with
similar disorders within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). General criteria for each syndrome will be
explained, as well as the differences amongst subtypes and the possibility of
dual-diagnosis. The presenter will argue that the current European
conceptualization of mental disorders is too limited and culturally-insensitive
to be of extensive use to Africans. The total absence of the importance
of spirituality in the development of psychopathology within European paradigms
with be illustrated, as well as an argument for the need of a Pan-African
Manual for Globalized Psycho-Spiritual Diseases.
This will be an interactive presentation with a comprehensive question and
answer session for the audience. The influence of undiagnosed PRSDAAs on the current Black-on-Black Violence Epidemic in
major U.S. cities, Philadelphia in particular, will be explicated. The
discussion is sure to include the mis-diagnosis of PRSDAAs,
which are often mistaken as European disorders to include depression, anxiety, conduct
disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is a MUST
ATTEND session for all community & faith-based leaders,
revolutionaries & nationalists, mental health & social service workers,
parents & educators, students and scholars who are serious about solving
the psycho-spiritual (mental) health crisis plaguing the Black community today.