Black Lives Matter: A Call to Action for Counseling Psychology Leaders.

Police brutality and widespread systemic racism represent historical and current sources of trauma in Black communities. Both the Black Lives Matter movement and counseling psychology propose to confront these realities at multiple levels. Black Lives Matter seeks to increase awareness about systemic racism and promote resilience among Black people.

Studying Sex: A Content Analysis of Sexuality Research in Counseling Psychology.

Using a sex positive framework, the authors conducted a 61-year (1954-2015) content analysis of sexuality research in the flagship counseling psychology journals, the and . Given counseling psychology's core strengths- and multiculturalism-related values, this study aimed to uncover which human sexuality topics were published most, whether publications aligned with a sex positive, neutral, or negative discourse, what methodologies were used, and differences in how populations were investigated across race. Researchers used an integrative approach to content analysis and human coding (Neuendorf, 2011).

Perceived Risk of HIV Infection Among Drug-Using African American Male Prisoners: One Year After Community Re-entry.

Background: African Americans represent 13% of the U.S. population but 46% of people living with HIV and nearly 40% of state and federal prisoners.

'The full has never been told': building a theory of sexual health for heterosexual Black men of Caribbean descent.

Research on Black sexual health often fails to represent the heterogeneity of Black ethnic groups. For people of Caribbean descent in the USA, ethnicity is a salient cultural factor that influences definitions and experiences of sexual health. Most research on people of Caribbean descent focuses on the relatively high rate of STIs, but sexual health is defined more broadly than STI prevalence.

John Henryism Active Coping as a Cultural Correlate of Substance Abuse Treatment Participation Among African American Women.

The rates of illicit drug use among African American women are increasing, yet African American women are least likely to participate in treatment for substance use disorders when compared to women of other racial groups. The current study examined family history of substance use, perceived family support, and John Henryism Active Coping (JHAC) as correlates to seeking treatment for substance abuse. The underlying theoretical frame of JHAC (James et al.