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Published Online: 2 April 2004

Book Helps Black Parents Guide Their Kids Through Crises

Ken HausmanAuthors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Psychiatric News
Volume 39, Number 7
https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.39.7.0031
A new publication designed to help African-American families cope with and explain crises to their children has been published by the National Institute of Child Health and Development—a division of the National Institutes of Health—and the nonprofit National Black Child Development Institute.
The Activity Book for African-American Families: Helping Children Cope With Crisis provides nearly two dozen activities that parents and children can undertake as a way of understanding and coping with images and experiences of violence, hardship, and crisis. The activities are also intended to help parents identify constructive ways to get their children to talk about emotions and feelings they might otherwise be reluctant to express.
The book’s introduction explains, “African-American communities are faced with violence, insecurity, and unemployment every day. Events around the world only add to these everyday stresses. All of these things have a great impact on [the lives of African Americans],” a consequence that is magnified in African-American children.
The book’s activities are divided into such topics as instilling hope for the future, comforting children in times of crisis, determining what information is age appropriate for children, helping children feel safe, planning for emergencies, helping children feel good about themselves, and monitoring what children watch on television.
The two organizations wrote the book with input from African-American families and organizations and from professional organizations, including APA, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the National Medical Association.
The publication is free and can be ordered online at www.nichd.nih.gov or www.NBCDI.org; by e-mail at [email protected]; or by phone at (800) 370-2943. ▪

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A new book provides exercises to help African-American parents guide their children through times of crisis.

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