Center for Child and Family Well-being
2006-2007 Annual Conference
Dilemmas in American Education:
The Struggle for Equity and Inclusion
April 12th and 13th, 2007 
Afternoon Breakout Session
1:00 to 2:30
Celeste Johnson, PhD
Violence in Schools
When Friends Are Murdered: The Unintended Consequence of Schools Serving as Emotional Holding Environments
Schools located in and out of high-risk urban neighborhoods serve as an emotional holding environment for students who have lost friends to murder and for the staff that work with these students. The whole school community may be affected by aspects of loss, bereavement and traumatic grief. The findings from and experience of doing a research project on African American teen girls who have lost friends to murder will be presented to
- Tell the stories of African American high school girls who have lost friends to murder.
- Examine how their schools were supportive or not as the girls grieved the loss of their friends.
- Highlight, with a focus on compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization, the experiences of some teachers, staff and social workers working with these girls.
- Provide ideas of how schools are and can be supportive of the complex needs of students, teachers and staff based on the girls’ stories and the research experience.
Johnson received her B.A. in Psychology in
1970 from Hampton Institute, M.S.S.
in 1978 from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and Ph.D. in
1998 Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.
Her
Dissertation Research Interest was on African American Adolescents and Loss.
Post Graduate Certifications and Training:
Academy of Certified Social Workers National Association of Social Workers
Board Certified Diplomate Clinical Social Work American Board of Examiners
1988 Contextual Family Therapy Training Program
1996 Multidimensional Family Therapy Research Project Involvement in Research Projects
Center for Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse Family Therapist, 1994-1996
Director: Dr. Howard Liddle
The Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital The Study Of Differences In Family Functioning Between Adolescent Substance Abuse And Mental Health Admissions Member of Family Assessment Team, 1990-92
Researchers: Harvey Horowitz, MD and John Steidl, M.S.S.
For additional information on this conference or other
Center for Child and Family Well-being events contact:
Peggy Robinson @ 610-520-2605 or email probinson@brynmawr.edu.
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