Promoting Mental Health and Wellness for Academic Success
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 250
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This edited volume provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed, evidence-based, data-driven practices to build relationships with students, so that they are confident in their identity, willing to ask for and receive help, well-resourced to achieve academically, knowledgeable about how to engage with their community, and able to pursue their goals. The contributors are career educators and emerging professionals, with experience and expertise in the classroom, special education, counseling, coaching, leadership, administration, and community engagement.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Marja Humphrey
Chapter 2 Developing Identity in the Elementary Age Child
Julie Lubelczyk
Chapter 3 Black Girl Magic: Constructing My Identity Through Community
Carolyn Thorpe, Med, PSC, LGPC, NCC
Chapter 4 Beyond the Pushout: A Strength-Based Framework for Black Girls
Iesha Caisey
Chapter 5 Becoming Asafo: Implementing Africentric Rites of Passage for Black Boys in School-Based Settings
Otis Williams III, Julius Davis, Mark Cox
Chapter 6 Supporting Students Towards Academic Success and Mental Wellness, Coaching Athletes Secondary from a Coaching Perspective
Raenelle M. Taylor
Chapter 7 The Importance of Restorative Practice in Schools
Tyra Bonner
Chapter 8 School Counselor and School Scoail Worker Collaboration: A Model for Student Success
Nikki Poindexter Ham, Consuela Robinson, Dwayne Ham, Sr.
Marja Humphrey, associate professor and program coordinator in the School Counseling program at Bowie State University, has many publications and presentations to her credit. Her research interests include counselor preparation, leadership, identity development, spirituality, and wellness. She has served in multiple roles with local, state, and national professional organizations and nonprofits. Dr. Humphrey’s Interfaith Team at Bowie State University was awarded two grants to further their cooperative work on campus, building bridges across differences and increasing Interfaith literacy. In 2023, Dr. Nikki Ham, Dr. Humphrey (serving as the Director of Participant Engagement and Stakeholder Relations), and Dr. Masica Jordan-Alston established the Ujima Center for School Counseling Scholars at Bowie State University, after being awarded a United States Department of Education grant for over $5 Million dollars over a five-year period. This project provides culturally responsive professional development for school counselors-in-training as they prepare to serve the mental health needs of K-12 students in local public schools. An avid learner, connector, and truth-teller, Dr. Humphrey offers therapeutic challenge and support as a licensed counselor to individuals and couples pursuing meaningful lives. Dr. Humphrey earned her doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Maryland, College Park.