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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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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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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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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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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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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Can Therapy Ease the Trauma of U.S. Racist Attacks and Systemic Racism?
News followed of the killings of six Asian-born spa workers in Atlanta and brutal attacks on people of Asian descent nationwide. Band's mostly Asian-American clients in the Washington, D.C., area…
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Silent Frustration: Depression and the Black male
Depression is a syndrome characterized by a number of symptoms including the following: depressed or irritable mood, loss of interest in daily activities, feelings of guilt or worthlessness, fatigue, and…
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Facilitating a seven part community conversation on mental health in the Black community at the Western Branch of the Louisville Public Library
Being recognized as an African American achiever in the area of education by the Louisville Public Defender
Recognized as a 2019 honoree during the Louisville Defender Newspaper Real Black Men luncheon.
Serving as a panelist for the Minority Mental Health Project conversation on “What’s Killing Black men”
Kentucky Sessions Explore and Highlight the Black Family
Interviewed by Spectrum News about my four week seminar on intergenerational trauma in the Black family at the Western Branch of the Louisville Public Library. See interview
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Kentucky School Offers Free Healing After Racial Trauma
Interviewed by Spectrum News about my work treating race based stress and trauma. See interview
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Project CommUNITY: Exploring race-based trauma
Interviewed by WLKY about the impact of race based stress and trauma on the Black community. See interview
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Discussion: Worsening race relations?
I was interviewed on WHAS 11 to discuss racism in America with my colleague Dr. Dede Wohlfarth. See interview
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