NEW BOOK ON POST TRAUMATIC SLAVERY DISORDER:
DEFINITION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Institutions to control the image of the black race via stereotypes have
not changed in 300 years, and are still affecting us today.

(AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSWIRE BOSTON) Dr. Omar Reid, Sekou Mims and Larry Higginbottom have co-authored a new and enlightening book, "Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder (PTSlaveryD): Definition, Diagnosis and Treatment." According to the authors, Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder has a direct relationship with post traumatic stress disorder and the resulting drug abuse, broken families, crime and low educational attainment in segments of the Black community.

The authors illustrate how current dysfunctional behaviors and disorders that exist among Black people have origins linked back to the African slave period. This book documents that what happened during slavery continues to have an effect on the descendants of slaves. It gives the reader an understanding of how slavery contributed too many of the dysfunctional behaviors that are exhibited by Black people today.

It also supports how Blacks have been damaged from slavery as well as the American Apartheid. To change the effects of PTSlaveryD, one must first understand the cumulative toxic effects of the disorder and then develop the necessary skills to be completely free of it. Black people can use this as a guide for developing an understanding of the confusion and conflicting feelings they see in themselves, their loved ones, and their people.

The objective of this book is to offer participants a new clinical paradigm (PTSlaveryD) for working with Black people. It was not designed to point out Caucasian people's psychological deficiencies or pass blame. It was developed to focus on some of the current psychological deficiencies of Black people and accurately define them as they are. It was also written to become a tool for all clinicians of all ethnicities.

The authors of his book are researchers, healers and social scientists who understand the universal laws of nature:

Dr. Omar Reid is a licensed educational psychologist and licensed mental health counselor. He is also certified as a school psychologist in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland and New Hampshire. Omar received is doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Antioch University and did his clinical training at the Children's Hospital in Boston, Boston Medial Center and the VA Hospital in Montrose, New York. Dr. Reid worked as a school psychologist in the Boston Public School system for 12 years. Dr. Reid is co-founder and co-director of Pyramid Builders. Dr. Reid currently provides learning disabilities assessment for schools, in additional to offering individual, families, couples and group counseling.

Sekou Mims begun working with youth human services in 1977 through a variety of community service programs. Sekou completed his Master of Education in Psychology and Counseling form Cambridge College and enrolled in Simmons School of Social world, completing his MSW in 1997. From there, Sekou began to provide social assessment and counseling consultation service for some of Boston's most respected human service organizations and the City of Boston Public Schools. Sekou is a co-founder of Pyramid Builders Associates, a social service consultant agency that consists of several social workers and mental health professional.

Larry Higginbottom is founder of The Osiris Group, has developed The Learning Center model, a behavior management tool, which focuses on academic achievement and containment of inappropriate school behavior of the socially maladjusted student.

The book can be purchased online at www.ptslaveryd.com. For interview with the authors, contact Janine Fondon via phone (413) 734-6444 or send email to jfondon@unityfirst.com.
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