Overview
There is not a book on the market that focuses on helping people understand fear on fear interactions, explores the ubiquitous nature of fear and trauma, and employs this knowledge as a means of purposefully helping people and systems heal
Addresses the role of fear in COVID-19, vaccine hesitancy (historic and current), vaccine and health disparities (historic and current), the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol, attitudes and practices of law enforcement, education, health care and poverty
Offers a unique perspective on the ecology of fear and connects predator-prey relationships to othering, supremacy, discrimination and racism
Explores the historic, political, philosophical and anthropological relationship between fear, trauma and racism and offers the reader ways to temper fear, establish safety and shift toward healing
Highlights racism as form of associative learning/classical (fear) conditioning and social constructivism
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
This book provides in-depth analysis of the historical, philosophical, anthropological, political and neurobiological reinforcements of fear and the role of fear-on-fear interactions in the construction and maintenance of systems. This text will help systems appreciate the profound, pervasive and deleterious role fear has played in the establishment of laws, policies and practices, and explore what systems can do to reduce fear and prioritize safety and healing.
Right now we are dealing with hard truths: human suffering runs deep and is universal; trauma is ubiquitous and widespread; racism is real and has profound psychological, physical, political, social and economic implications; and the world is hurting and needs healing. Many are curious about where and when healing will commence, who will facilitate it and what it will look and feel like. Healing comes in this order: safety, truth and then reconciliation. When we know better, we can (or should) certainly do better. This book offers a framework for how to effectively begin to deconstruct systemic fear, prioritize safety, reduce needless suffering and move toward optimal healing and sustained change.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. AMC is an expert in trauma-informed systems change, and specifically has interacted with numerous and varied aspects of the criminal justice system. She has served on the Portland Community Oversight Advisory Board, charged with monitoring the implementation of the City of Portland’s settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to enact reform to Portland Police Bureau (PPB) policies and training. She has partnered with the Federal Judicial Center and the National Judicial College to provide training for Federal Judges and Probation Officers and State Supreme Court Judges respectively.
Dr. AMC has trained U.S. Senators and staffers in applying a trauma-informed lens to policies and legislation. She is training various U.S. Probation and Pretrial Service District Offices to facilitate trauma-informed change in U.S. presentencing and sentencing guidelines and post-prison supervision. Dr. AMC has assisted with policy and training with the Multnomah county District Attorney's office over the span of three elected District Attorney’s as well as extensively with Portland’s local judiciary. She has also trained the Multnomah County Probation Office and other local law enforcement agencies and personnel in Oregon.
While in residency training, Dr. AMC built Healing Hurt People-Portland (HHP), a trauma-informed, hospital-based, community-focused youth violence prevention program.
Dr. AMC's trauma-informed efforts are global as she works in Angola, Africa at their family clinic Centro Medico Bom Samaritano and is the co-founder of The Capuia Foundation. Additionally, she is partnering with EPIONE in Scotland for global trauma-informed change.
She is faculty at McLean Hospital-Harvard Medical School.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Trauma of Racism
Book Subtitle: Exploring the Systems and People Fear Built
Authors: Alisha Moreland-Capuia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73436-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73435-0Published: 01 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73438-1Published: 02 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73436-7Published: 31 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 173
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychology, general, Community and Environmental Psychology, Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Sciences, general