RT Article
T1 The Culture of Stigma Surrounding Depression in the African American Family and Community
JF Journal of pastoral theology
VO 25
IS 1
SP 18
OP 29
A1 Wimberley, Wynnetta
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663302960
AB This article explores the crisis of depression in post-modern America through the contextualized lens of the African American experience. In view of the pervasive societal realities of race, class, and gender oppression, the article begins by identifying the American trans-Atlantic slave trade as an historical trauma and cultural factor for depression among (enslaved and freed) Africans and persons of African descent. It highlights the cultural stigmatization of depression as a prevailing challenge facing African Americans today. The author concludes the article by drawing from a communal-contextual model of Black pastoral theology to offer both the Black pastor and the 'extended family' network of the African American congregation as vital resources in countering the effects of the cultural stigmatization of depression.
K1 Collective Memory
K1 counseling African Americans
K1 cultural stigmatization
K1 Depression
K1 Historical trauma
K1 societal oppression
K1 Stress
DO 10.1179/1064986715Z.0000000004