What you eat and the quality of yourdigestive healthare intertwined. Blackish Mental Health in its global context requires engagement with all forms of African intellectual, literary, and artistic production across time and space and in relationship to the differing realms of reality.
Black Mental Health has to be a worldwide proposition.
That’s best understood within the construct of Pan African Humanness wherein African humanity worldwide and its intellectual and cultural developments have greater commonality and are seen as a particular state of being. Commit to developing a culturally grounded discipline and practice of African/Black Psychology; and endorse and adopt the development and utilization of Black/African Psychology for understanding, analyses, treatment, and restoration of Black/African spirit wellness worldwide, In the context of Black Mental Health as a global initiative, the intent is for continental African Psychologists and Diasporan African psychologists to forge working relationships to critically examine the assumptions and paradigms concerning the understanding, development and emergence of Black/ African peoples.
Reach out for help, I’d say in case you feel like life ain’t worth living. You are not alone. Suicides are largely preventable. Suicides are preventable. Carter Woodson, noted that. Those stated context, I’m pretty sure I would like to draw attention to the question of Black Mental Health as a global necessity. That said, it’s the psyche or psychological domain that I, for obvious reasons, believe to be the most important.
Cheikh Anta Diop can only be understood by examining the domains of history, language, and psyche, while reclaiming our history is critical. So that’s an ongoing and unfolding endeavor and African psychologists, whom I classify as Skh Djaerists, must continue to invite one another to join gether in exploring, defining, and understanding Black Mental Health as a global necessity supportive of the full participation in wellness, freedom, and unity for African people. It’s vital to note that hegemonic imposition of the Western Grand Narrative as universal equals Epistemicide for hundreds of the World’s peoples and the inability to ever achieve a fair, true, and just worldwide community. Blackish people are a world people. It must be noted that the unaddressed trauma of enslavement and colonization have left a legacy of psychic damage to both continental and diasporan Africans that necessitates the need for a global healing of the African mind. Basically the raison d’être of the Association of Black Psychologists was to build a psychology that respects and reflects African human authenticity. In this regard, in 2013 the Association of Black Psychologists established a joint ABPsi and FAP educational task force. Charge and challenge of this coming gether is to further build a psychology congruent with the culture, context, and humanity of African peoples.
Stork has delivered a brand new journal. Lancet Child Adolescent Health. Please join here. HIFA is a global health network with 16000 members interacting on email discussion forums. It’s a well-known fact that the devaluation and disenfranchisement of African life processes; Now look, the denigration and denial of African culture; and the disregard and disrespect for African and African American intellectual contributions, The resultant paradigm for understanding is the actual dehumanization of African people. So thrust for multicultural understanding and diversity in psychology must allow for and support the particular in the multicultural world. There is some more info about it here. Blackish Psychology, Asian Psychology, Hispanic Psychology, and all that must all stand and evolve within their own integrity. Let me tell you something. Undoubtedly it’s worth noting that as we enter this Black History Month, we are just one month away from the end of the Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, the first Black President of the United States, and one month into first pace of the Presidency of Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman, who some believe has fanned and unleashed almost white privilege/supremacy, hatred, divisiveness, misogyny, inequality, and xenophobia which are buried in the American psyche.