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Contextual Considerations in Working with Black American Youth with Contextual Stress and Internalizing Symptoms (CSIS) with Joya Hampton-Anderson, PhD and Jordan Cattie, PhD

Course Description

Black American youth face grave mental health disparities that have the potential to negatively impact adaptive functioning. This intermediate level workshop will focus on the culturally-responsive support of contextual stress and internalizing symptoms (CSIS) in outpatient clinical care for Black youth. After reviewing prevalence rates and the historical and structural factors that contribute to current sociocultural barriers to treatment, an overview of culturally-responsive intervention approaches for this population will be provided. 

Learning Objectives

1. Describe mental health disparities in Black American youth in the United States.

2. Provide an overview of the historical and structural factors that contribute to these disparities

3. Explain how these factors create sociocultural barriers to mental health treatment

4. Describe culturally-responsive intervention approaches

CE Credits

None

Date & duration

104 minutes

Registration date

Recorded on 10/20/2025

Contributor

Joya Hampton-Anderson, PhD

Joya N. Hampton-Anderson, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory School of Medicine. Dr. Hampton-Anderson received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University, her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Emory University, and completed her postdoctoral fellowships at Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University School of Medicine. She sees patients through the Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Division at Emory and is the developer and director of the ENRICH program, a clinical research program designed to improve mental health outcomes for underserved youth (www.enrichprogram.org). Clinically, Dr. Hampton-Anderson works with youth and families using an empirically supported, collaborative, culturally responsive approach to treatment. She enjoys connecting with communities about her work and mental health topics via writing and talks.  

Presenter

Jordan Cattie, PhD

Jordan Cattie, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at Emory University Department of Psychiatry. She trained at the OCD Institute at McLean Hospital, where she developed her passion for treating OCD and addressing the provider gap in this area. Her professional activities are focused on increasing access to first-line behavioral treatments for OCD and related disorders through clinical, research, training, and advocacy activities.

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