PO792: Police Brutality: Psychological Implications

  • PMD: 4
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 1: Promoting Diversity and Multicultural Competence in School Psychology

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. gain school-based resources to support communities that are vicariously traumatized by police brutality,
  2. learn how to partner with community agents to support communities that are vicariously traumatized by police brutality, and
  3. examine the literature on the psychological implications of police brutality.

Description

This presentation reviews police brutality through a psychological lens, conceptualizes its occurrence, and provides recommendations on how to address this concern in a school-based setting.

Presenter(s)

Natasha Hogg, University at Albany
Meghan E. Conboy, University at Albany

Contributor(s)

Stacy A. Williams

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