I am a Black male, clinical psychologist, professor, author, speaker, and advocate for
marginalized populations.

ABOUT ME

I am a Black male, clinical psychologist, professor, author, speaker, and advocate for marginalized populations.

This website is designed to empower others through education and advocacy. My goal is to provide information and insight that will offer encouragement and support while challenging our views about marginalized individuals.

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June 16, 2021 in Media

Why millennials resist giving up on Kanye West

Kanye West released his debut album, The College Dropout, in 2004. Those 21 tracks put lyrics to the feelings I had about life at 19. I’d spent my first semester…
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June 16, 2021 in Media

Spalding appoints chief justice, equity, diversity and inclusion officer

Spalding University has named Dr. Steven Kniffley, a therapist and researcher on matters of race and racial trauma, as its chief justice, equity, diversity and inclusion officer. Kniffley is a…
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June 16, 2021 in Media

Chief Diversity Officer, psychology faculty member Steven Kniffley named a Health Care Hero by Louisville Business First

Spalding University Chief Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer Dr. Steven Kniffley, a faculty member in the School of Professional Psychology and the leader of Spalding’s Collective Care Center behavioral…
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June 16, 2021 in Media

Racial trauma and the negative impact on health of persons of color

Steven Kniffley Jr., PsyD, is a clinical psychologist who leads Spalding University’s Collective Care Center – one of the nation’s only behavioral health clinics to specialize in treating race-based trauma…
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June 16, 2021 in Media

Mental health experts warn Chauvin trial may revive feelings of racial trauma

As the Derek Chauvin trial is nationally televised and livestreamed this week, Americans have once again been exposed to the May 2020 video of the former police officer driving his…
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June 16, 2021 in Media

Mental health experts warn Chauvin trial may revive feelings of racial trauma

"Revisiting the events connected to George Floyd's death serve as a visual reminder of the devaluing of Black life and the potential costs associated with racism and discrimination," said Steven…
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Publications

Knowledge of Self:
Understanding the Mind of the Black male
Out of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self):
Black masculinity, psychopathology, and treatment