EDUCATION​

Ph.D.              2001    Social Work and Social Research Portland State University

M.A.               1995    Clinical Psychology Pacific University

M.S.W.           1988    Social Work Portland State University

B.S.                1986    Speech Communication Portland State University

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EMPLOYMENT​

Executive Director, Be The Healing, Inc.  2022 - Present

President & CEO, Joy DeGruy Publications, Inc. 2005 - Present

Assistant Professor, Portland State University School of Social Work  2001 - 2014

Trainer/Social Work Consultant, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory 1999-2001

Instructor, Portland State University Graduate School of Social Work 1998

Graduate Research Assistant, Portland State University Graduate School of Social Work Albina Community Project 1999

Instructor, Portland State University School of Education 1995

Principal, JDL & Associates 1993-2005

Associate Consultant, Nichols and Associates 1993-present

Director Evaluation & Curriculum, Self Enhancement Inc. 1988-1993

Associate, Willard and Associates 1986-1996

Case Manager, Outside-In & The Council For Prostitution Alternatives 1984-1988

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DISSERTATION​

African American Male Youth Violence: “Trying to Kill the Part of You that Isn’t Loved", August 8, 2001, Eileen Brennan, Chair

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PUBLICATIONS​

Books

DeGruy, Joy. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, (2nd Ed.) 2017, Joy DeGruy Publications Inc., Portland OR

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DeGruy, Joy. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, 2005, UpTone Press, Portland, OR 

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Study Guide

Leary, Joy DeGruy. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome The Healing: A Study Guide to Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, 2009, JDP Publications Inc.

Model

The Relationship Approach: Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Systemic, Multi-Cultural Model (M4). (2021), JDP Publications

Inc.

Book Chapters

The New Brownies Book: A love letter to black families. 2023, Chronicle Books LLC. 680 Second Street, San Francisco, CA

 

The Psychological Legacy of Slavery: Essays on trauma, healing and the living past: Explaining Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: Multigenerational transmission of trauma, 2021 McFarland & Company Publishers, Inc: Jefferson North Carolina.

 

Integrative Practice in and for Larger Systems: Transforming Administration and Management of People, Organizations, and Communities. Infusing Culture into Integrative Practice in and for Larger Systems. 2019, Oxford Press.

 

International Handbook on Disaster & Mass Trauma: Cultural and spiritual rituals and practices for meaning-making and resilience Impact of Genocide & Terrorism Post Slavery Syndrome: A Multigenerational Look at African American’s Injury, Healing and Resilience, 2010, Praeger Press.

 

Bandele, A, Gillespie, M. A., DeGruy, J. A., Relationships (pp. 70-80). Taylor, Susan L. (Eds) A New Way Forward: Healing What’s Hurting Black America. Third World Press, 2010

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Crawford, J., Nobles, W.W, Leary, DeGruy, J. Reparations and Healthcare for African Americans:  Repairing the Damage from the Legacy of Slavery (pp. 251-281). Winbush, Raymond A. (Eds) Should America Pay: Slavery and The Raging Debate on Reparations Harper Collins Publishing, 2003

 

Refereed Articles

Briggs, H. E., Kothari, B. H., Briggs, A. C., Bank, L., DeGruy, J., Racial Respect; Initial Testing and Validation of the Racial Respect Scale for Adult African Americans. (2015) Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 6(2): 269-303 DOI: 10.1086/681625

 

DeGruy, J, A., Kjellstrand, J. M., Briggs, H. E., & Brennan, E. M., Respect and Racial Socialization as Protective Factors for African American Male Youth. (2012)

Journal of Black Psychology

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Briggs, H. E., Briggs, A. C., Leary, J. D. (2006). Family Participation in System Change. Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal.

 

Briggs, H. E., Briggs, A. C., Leary, J. D., Briggs, A. C., Cox, W. H., & Shibano, M. (November 2005).  Group Treatment of Separated Parents and Child Interaction.  Research On Social Work Practice, 15 (6), pp. 452-461

 

Leary, J. D., Brennan, E., Briggs, (November 2005).  The African American Adolescent Respect Scale:  A Measure of a Prosocial Attitude, Research On Social Work Practice, 15 (6) pp. 462-469. 2005

 

Briggs, H. E., Briggs, A. C., Leary, J. D., (Summer 2005). Promoting Culturally Competent Systems of Care Through Statewide Family Networks. Best Practices in Mental Health: An International Journal. 1 (2), pp. 77-99.

 

Briggs, H. E., Briggs, A. C., Leary, J. D., (2001). Shields and Walls:  The Structure and Process of Racism in American Society. Psychology and Education, An International Journal 38 (2), 2-14.

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Monographs (Non-refereed)

DeGruy, J. A., (2015) Oasis Sister’s Circle: Where Black Women Replenish & Restore in Community.  San Francisco Black Infant Health Project.

 

Leary, J. D. Examining the Lingering negative Effects of the Institution of Slavery on Living African Americans and on Society in the United States. Illinois Transatlantic Slave Trade Commission Research project (2009).

 

Leary, J. Kiam, R., Briggs, H. E. (2003). Culturally Responsive and Accountable Organizations. In H. E. Briggs & T. Rzepnicki (Eds.). Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: A Festschrift Honoring the Contributions of Elsie Pinkston. Volume 1 & 2. Chicago: The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration.

 

COMPLETED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, PRODUCTIONS, FILMS, ETC.

The State of Black America, New York-WABC, “Like It Is” Hosted by Gil Noble with Randall Robinson, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, September 2004

 

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, New York-WABC, “Like It Is” Hosted by Gil Noble, September 2003

 

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, New York-WBAI 99.5 FM New York City Pacifica Radio, 2003

 

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, National Public Radio, Hosted by Tavis Smiley, December 2002

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Refereed

The State of Black America, New York-WABC, “Like It Is” Hosted by Gil Noble with Randall Robinson, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, September 2004
 

SAMSHA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Annual Conference, Washington, D. C., 2009

 

National Association of Black Social Workers African American Mental Health New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2005.

 

African and African Descendants: United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Bridgetown, Barbados, October 2003.

 

National Association of Social Workers, African American Males and Issues of Respect Albany New York, February 2003.

 

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome/The Relationship Model

National Association of Social Workers, Fairbanks, Alaska, April 1999.

 

Community as Partner: A Community Centered Approach to Field Education. Council on Social Work Education, 44th Annual Program Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 5-8, 1998.

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Invited

MacArthur Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation Reparations and Healing Summit Bellagio, Italy, July, 2022.

 

MacArthur Foundation Reparations and Healing Summit Accra, Ghana, August, 2022.

 

UNESCO International Symposium on “Healing the Wounds of Slave Trade and Slavery: Towards Mutual Recovery, Washington, D.C. October, 2018.

 

International Academy of Law and Mental Health (IALMH) Rome, Italy July 21 to July 27, 2019.

 

International Symposium on “Exploring The Legacy of Slavery” Martinique, October 2016

 

CSPAN 2007 University of Oxford, Oxford Roundtable, Invited Speaker “Diversity in Society” London, England. March 2006

 

Head Start, African American Families and Historical Trauma, May 2003.

 

Head Start Board Brooklyn, African Americans and Childhood Trauma New York, August 2003.

 

Child Welfare Partnership/DHS Seminar Portland, Oregon January 2003 Multi-Cultured Families.

 

Axiology/ Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment Conference, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, October 1994.

 

Youth, America and Drugs. Oregon Department of Human Resources of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, Prevention Conference, 1991.

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COURSES TAUGHT

Online Courses Offered by Joy DeGruy Publications, Inc. 2019 - Present 

Introduction to Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome
 

Advanced M-4 Model Implementation: The Relationship Approach: Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Systemic, Multi Cultural Model
 

African American Multigenerational Trauma & Implementing Models of Change

 

Portland State University School of Social Work Courses  2001-2014

Diversity and Social Justice

 

Field Instruction

 

Generalist Practice

 

Human Behavior in the Social Environment

 

Seminar: African American Community

 

African American Multigenerational Trauma & Issues of Violence

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HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 

American Psychological Association 2023 Presidential Citation for Scholarship noting 1,700 citations of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, in refereed journal articles and books.

 

MacArthur Foundation Grant for Reparations and Healing, July, 2021 – August, 2022  $500,000

 

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in Human Rights and Social Justice from the California Institute of Integral Studies, 2015

 

Oregon Sports Lottery Scholarship 1999-2000

 

Minority Graduate Student Pipeline Support Fellowship 1996-97, 1997-98

 

Gladys McCoy Fellowship, 1997

 

Pacific University, School of Professional Psychology Minority Scholarship, 1990.

 

Mount Hood Minority Scholarship for field placement, Mount Hood Community Mental Health Clinic, 1986.

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