Category: Departmental Talk

Dr. Jennifer Coleman’s research was geared towards stress and how it affects non-white population, specifically black populations. As her main focus was on veterans, she encountered PTSD a lot, and sought to find the racial divide between symptomatology, expression, and cause. It has been established, that due to the continuous struggles against discrimination and segregation,Continue reading Departmental Talk →

Dr. Jennifer Coleman did a great job of discussing the topic of racial differences in post traumatic stress disorder. She started off her talk discussing a lot of terms that we have touched on in our course. I thought all of these points were extremely relevant to what we have been talking about and IContinue reading Departmental Talk →

On November 1st, the author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Daniel Tatum came to the University of Richmond to engage with a conversation with President Crutcher surrounding the empathy gap and the importance of conversations.  The conversation took a few turns, however, I thought her point aboutContinue reading Departmental Talk (Empathy Gap) →

During the talk on Friday, Dr. Jennifer Coleman talked about her work regarding racial differences in posttraumatic stress disorder. I found her work very interesting – PTSD is a mental illness that I have not learned about in depth before. As Dr. Coleman mentioned, PTSD has been defined differently in the DSM over the yearsContinue reading Departmental Talk →

    The speaker spoke on the topic of racial differences in PTSD and introduced the rather interesting concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma. I myself did some research on this concept last year, in relation to the intergenerational trauma suffered by the indigenous peoples of Mexico. My understanding of this concept is a group suffering soContinue reading Departmental Talk →

I thought the talk that Jennifer Coleman did was fascinating. I learned a lot about PTSD that I had I never knew before. I didn’t know that a lot of information about PTSD and its symptoms are not unknown and defined differently in other countries. I also thought the study she designed was very interesting. IContinue reading Departmental Talk →

I thought that Jennifer Coleman’s talk on PTSD and Trauma was very interesting and brought a new perspective on mental illness. What I found most interesting in the talk was the notion that we don’t truly know what PTSD is, and the concept that how PTSD is categorized will change in the next few years.Continue reading Trauma & PTSD Talk →

Although the students in this class already knew a lot about health disparities prior to this talk, it was interesting to see it combined with a particular mental health issue, PTSD. We have talked a lot about the perpetually activated stress response and how that affects health for people in minority populations, and this talkContinue reading Departmental Talk →

On Friday, October 26th, Dr. Jennifer Coleman from Rush University gave a talk about Racial Differences in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder between military personnel. She began the talk by explaining the organization she works for called the Road Home Program; this program offers free mental health services to service members and their families. They have a three-week outpatientContinue reading Departmental Talk →

Dr. Jennifer Coleman lead the departmental talk regarding the correlation between race and posttraumatic stress disorder. Her field of research has produced a number of interesting and surprising findings that contribute to the mental and physical background of race related PTSD. What stuck out most was that studies suggest that those who are white haveContinue reading Departmental Talk →