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By Sylvester Brown Jr. | St. Louis American | Word In Black<\/p>\n

(WIB) \u2013 Dr. Jameca Woody Cooper is a licensed psychologist with a practice, Emergence Psychological Services, in Clayton. She\u2019s the director of Webster University\u2019s psychology program and is the director of the school\u2019s Applied Educational Psychology program. All-in-all, Cooper has been in the profession for about 20 years.<\/p>\n

Cooper is a rarity in her profession. According to the US Census Bureau, 82% of psychologists in the United States are white, and only 5% are Black. Cooper also has another concern: The lack of Black male psychologists in schools locally and nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think some of the educators in the area should be interested and concerned for a couple reasons,\u201d Cooper explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumber one; school districts need to seek out psychologists who can attend to their student\u2019s needs. [Psychologists) need to be in line with the demographics of their students. Secondly, addressing the issue might make them consider going into this area themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), more than 85% of school psychologists are white, while most K-12 public school students are not. Additionally, the NASP estimates that Black male school psychologists make up fewer than 1% in U.S. public schools.<\/p>\n

A Feb. 2022 NPR article on the topic phrased it this way:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are fewer Black men working as school psychologists than as players in the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to PDK International, a support organization for teachers and school leaders, Black students have been disproportionately affected by exclusionary discipline practices for decades. These practices include special education placements, suspensions, alternative learning center placement, and expulsions.<\/p>\n

These practices, PDK wrote, are often \u201cbased on interpreting culture and behavior within a universal perspective rather than seeking to understand culture and behavior within a Black context.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not understanding or appreciating culture and learned behaviors, Cooper added, can have profound negative ramifications on Black students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest problem is with assessments. [Psychologists] are testing\/ assessing children for learning difficulties, behavior disorders and other impairments such as ADHD\u2026they\u2019re assessing them for all that,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going to look at testing as a whole, it would be helpful and more effective to have people who have some knowledge of the backgrounds of the students and knowledge of how those assessment measures can deviate based on racial and cultural backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lack of Black psychologists in schools was explored in a Feb. 2022 Word In Black (WIB) article titled: \u201cWhy We Need More Black Psychologists in Schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRepresentation matters,\u201d the writer,\u00a0Maya Pottiger<\/a>, explained, noting how Black youth are grappling with some of the same \u201cstressors\u201d as Black adults.<\/p>\n

The issues include the loss of more than one million Americans from COVID-19; isolation from their peers; dealing with community violence, microaggressions, fear of police violence along with transitioning from in-person classes to remote learning and then back again.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack folk,\u201d Pottiger wrote, have \u201ctaken a hit during the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone who doesn\u2019t have the same racial or cultural background may misdiagnose, misunderstand, and mis-assess the challenges facing Black kids,\u201d Dr. Kevin Cokley, a professor of educational psychology and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin, told WIB.<\/p>\n

Cooper couldn\u2019t agree more. But she included the fact that most psychiatrists in schools \u2013 those who primarily prescribe medicine to children-are white as well.<\/p>\n

According to the American Psychiatric Association Maya Pottiger, (APA), only 2% of the estimated 41,000 psychiatrists in the U.S. are Black. This number concerns Cooper.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf only 2% of the psychiatrists in schools are Black, that means that most of the psychiatrists\u2019 Black kids see are going to be white. And, most likely, they\u2019re going to present with certain behaviors, and they (white psychologists) are going to think it\u2019s X, Y, or Z meaning ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, bipolar and label them with those diagnoses when in fact it may not be that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another reason for the shortage of Black psychiatrists and psychologists in schools may have more to do with culture and exposure than outright racism or exclusion.<\/p>\n

Cokley, speaking to WIB addressed this issue as well, saying Black people haven\u2019t traditionally accessed professional mental health services.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea was that Black people don\u2019t go talking to strangers about their problems,\u201d Cokley said. \u201cWe rely on religiosity and spirituality, talking to pastors and other sort of spiritual leaders, to get us through whatever emotional mental health challenges we were facing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although there may be phobias in Black communities regarding seeking mental health treatment, hope is on the horizon Dr. Cokley told WIB, based on \u201cA-listers\u201d like Simon Biles and Kid Cudi \u201cbeing more open about their mental health challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper agrees with that assessment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more we talk about it, the more we encourage it and support it; the more we start to recognize the full gamut of people with mental health issues,\u201d Cooper said, adding:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least 20 years ago, when you thought about mental health issues, you thought \u2018oh, this person must be crazy\u2019 or schizophrenic. But mental health is so much more than that. It\u2019s people with anxiety, it\u2019s PTSD, its substance abuse, it\u2019s people with ADHD-it runs the full gamut. So, it\u2019s either we support and encourage them to get help, or you dismiss and ignore their problems and they go out untreated.<\/p>\n

And we see what happens when that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her role as director of two of Webster University\u2019s psychology programs, Cooper relishes her role as a recruiter of diverse minority students into her chosen field.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a lot of minority recruitment and outreach, and we train them (students) to deal with classroom behaviors, socio\/emotional issues with children and they get a good background on mental health issues tied into education and student performance.\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n

Even if Webster\u2019s minority students don\u2019t become psychologists, they will have the necessary training to help serve student\u2019s mental health needs, Cooper argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can get them trained to work within the school systems as parent professionals, teachers, or some other specialist in those areas\u2026well, that\u2019s better than nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sylvester Brown Jr. is The St. Louis American\u2019s inaugural Deaconess Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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