Date of Award
12-2025
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Program
Counselor Education
Department
Counselor Education
Major Professor
Belser, Christopher
Second Advisor
Wade, Michelle
Third Advisor
Mifsud, Anabel
Abstract
Traditional psychology was created by defining adaptive and maladaptive behaviors based on Eurocentric cultural norms. As a result, much of the research within the African American family utilizing Eurocentric ideologies and typologies has contributed to themes of inferiority and deficit-deficiency. This study attempts to move away from a deficit-deficiency model that assumes that because of the historical mistreatment of African American adults in this country, African American parents have developed competency deficits in areas necessary for the rearing/socialization process. In centering the African-ness of the Black family and utilizing Historical Trauma theory and Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome as contextual lenses, the purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study is to better understand the essence of Black parenthood in families with past or present involvement in the juvenile justice system as this knowledge may begin to inform best practices for family intervention with this population.
Recommended Citation
Wallace, Dana M., "The Essence of Black Parenthood Amid Juvenile Justice Contact: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Through Historical Trauma and Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome" (2025). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 3316.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/3316
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