Post-prison Community Reentry and African American Males: Implications for Family Therapy and Health

Perry, Armon R.; Robinson, Michael A.; Alexander, Rudolph; Moore, Samuel K.

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“…Our findings also can inform practitioners’ strategies for engaging Black men by impressing upon them the importance of demonstrating a genuine belief that they are not pathological, but are valuable members of society deserving of dignity and respect (Johnson & Johnson, 2010). Finally, our findings suggest that if practitioners desire to effectively serve Black men, they need to acquire training that makes them not only skilled in basic counseling, workforce development, and case management techniques, but also adept at delivering these services in an empathetic, culturally competent manner (Kendrick, Moore, Thomas, Matlock, & Flaskerud, 2009; Perry, Alexander, Moore, & Robinson, 2011). In doing so, practitioners can empower Black men by helping them manage the effects of racism in the forms of either acute, overt events such as being discriminated against and profiled or subtle, but cumulative effects of microaggressions or invisibility.…”

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“It’s Simply Because We’re Black Men”

Brooms

Perry

2016

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Given the recent attention to high-profile cases of unarmed Black men being killed by law enforcement officials and the subsequent #BlackLivesMatter movement, additional work is needed to more fully understand how African American men make meaning of their own personal realities and how they connect with and within the larger narrative of Black life in the United States. To contribute to this literature, the current study analyzes qualitative interview data from 25 Black men focused on their self-conceptions of race, stereotyping, and profiling. The findings reveal the men's perceptions and experiences with racism and stereotyping, the strategies that they employ in response to being stereotyped and profiled, and their reflections on the recent killings of Black men. This research provides an opportunity to investigate how Blackmaleness-the combined impact of their racialized and gendered identitiesconnects and operates in the lives of Black men.Historically, racism has been one of the most prominent American cultural frames and has played a major role in determining how Whites perceive and act toward Blacks 1 (Bell, 1992;Wilson, 2010). Wilson (2010) asserted that racism, an ideology of racial domination, has two key features at its core: (a) beliefs that one's race is either biologically or culturally inferior to another and (b) the use of such beliefs to rationalize or prescribe the way that the "inferior" race should be treated in this society (p. 15).

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“It’s Simply Because We’re Black Men”

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2016

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“…We tested a peer‐led delivery model whereby people in custody were used to deliver the skills to their peers 18 . As part of an audit, we used a survey to learn more about the problems people experienced in custody and who they would share their problems with and their use of the scheme 34 . It is this survey and workbook that we adapted to patients in this current study.…”

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Co‐production and adaptation of a prison‐based problem‐solving workbook to support the mental health of patients housed within a medium‐ and low‐secure forensic service

Perry,

Baker,

Aboaja

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IntroductionProblem‐solving skills (PSS) help to provide a systematic approach to dealing with and managing complex problems. The overall aim of this study was to assess the acceptability and feasibility of developing and adapting a prison‐based PSS workbook for adults within a medium‐ and low‐secure hospital.MethodWe used the Medical Research Council framework in our participatory mixed methods study incorporating an adapted survey (to identify what types of problems people experience in secure hospitals), a series of three interactive workshops (to co‐produce two case study examples for a workbook) and we gathered feedback from patients and hospital staff on the acceptability and feasibility of the workbook. Data from the survey were used to inform the case study examples, and the feedback from patients and hospital staff was descriptively summarised and the results consolidated.ResultsIn total, 82 (51%) patients took part in the survey; 22 patients and 49 hospital staff provided feedback on the workbook. The survey results indicated that patients regularly experience problems while in the hospital. Patients reported problems relating to restrictions of freedom and boredom. The workshops produced two case studies for the workbooks, with mainly positive patient and staff feedback. More work is required to improve the visual representation of the characters in the case studies, the amount and content of the language and the mechanism of the intervention delivery.ConclusionThe adaptation process proved acceptable and feasible to both patients and staff. The co‐production methodology for the workbook and feedback from patients and staff was an effective way of iteratively refining the materials to ensure that they were both meaningful and acceptable to staff and patients. Subsequent work is required to develop the workbook and evaluate the feasibility of the intervention delivery, recruitment rates, uptake and adherence to the PSS using a randomised controlled trial.Patient or Public ContributionAt each stage of the project consultation with patients and/or hospital staff was involved.

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The challenges of prisoner reentry faced by Native American returning offenders

Wodahl

Freng

2016

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

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Post-prison Community Reentry and African American Males: Implications for Family Therapy and Health

Cited by 3 publications

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“It’s Simply Because We’re Black Men”

“It’s Simply Because We’re Black Men”

Co‐production and adaptation of a prison‐based problem‐solving workbook to support the mental health of patients housed within a medium‐ and low‐secure forensic service

The challenges of prisoner reentry faced by Native American returning offenders

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