Psychological Trauma Case Study

Like the growing population of students in urban areas, in New York City many of the students identify as an African American. Race is prevalent to the development of personality, code of values and factors into a person’s development of self-esteem view of future career options. “Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event,” furthermore trauma is defined as, “frequent violation of the person's familiar ideas about the world and of their human rights, putting the person in a state of extreme confusion and insecurity” (DePrince, A.P. & Freyd, J.J., 2002). As members of the African American culture even in predominantly minority populated cities like New York students from elementary school, community colleges to state universities like the world renowned S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook University have limited access to teaching professionals or instructors that share their ethnic …show more content…
Stony Brook University where ethnic diversity is a staple of the universities mantra as, “the most diverse undergraduate population of S.U.N.Y. schools” (POLLACK, A. 2015) African Americans only make up 6.1 percent of the total undergraduate student body while Hispanics represent 10.1 percent of the total undergraduate student body. While minority students make up 16.2 percent of the total undergraduate student body the minority faculty only make up 00 percent of the teaching professionals at the institution. Theoretically based on these numbers and the fact that Stony Brook University has approximately 100 minor/ major option on campus the chance of having a person who is a minority in each department in slim (when you get the number do math). The chance of being a minority student and being taught by professors of your ethnic group are even slimmer unless you minor or major in Africana studies a field with one of the highest concentrations of minority teaching