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Section 4
Treating Stress and Trauma due to Racism - Mindfulness

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Williams, M. T., Holmes, S. H., Zare, M., Haeny, A., & Faber, S. (2023). An Evidence-Based Approach for Treating Stress and Trauma due to Racism. Cogn Behav Pract. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2022.07.001.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Mekawi, Y., Silverstein, M. W., Belizaire, S., Ware, M., Powers, A., & Carter, S. (2025). How well does the Index of Race-Related Stress-brief function in a trauma-exposed Black community sample? An item response theory examination of discrimination and difficulty parameters. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 17(4), 848–856. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001645

Guo, Z., & Jin, L. (2026). Experiences of racism and race-based traumatic stress symptoms among people of Chinese heritage in Canada: The moderating role of resilience. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 18(2), 448–456. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001966

Briere, J., Runtz, M., & Rodd, K. (2025). Social maltreatment as trauma: Posttraumatic correlates of a new measure of exposure to sexism, racism, and cisheterosexism. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 17(2), 387–395. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001636

QUESTION 4
Mindfulness can be a useful strategy with a client of color because it presents a mechanism for accepting the negative emotions elicited by racist events, but it can potentially be unhelpful because it does what? To select and enter your answer go to Test.