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Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

EDUCATION

Ph.D, University of Oregon
M.S., Howard University
B.A., Virginia Union University

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Psychological well-being, resilience and health of African Americans, the impact of stereotypes and invisibility upon African American males and females. Psychotherapy and counseling interventions with adolescent and adult men and families, with a specialty on men of African descent.

HONORS

Honarary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon

Outstanding Alumnus Award, University of Oregon College of Education (2010)

American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for outstanding service as Distinguished Elder/Senior Psychologist (2009 National Multicultural Conference and Summit)

Association of Black Psychologists (Distinguished Psychologist)

New York Association of Black Psychologists (Distinguished Psychologist)

American Psychological Association (Fellow)

American Orthopsychiatric Association (Fellow)

Saul Z. Cohen Distinguished Chair in Child and Family Services (visiting lecturer, trainer and consultant), Jewish Board for Child and Family Services, New York (2003-2005)

Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar & Lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University, Institute for Urban and Minority Education (February, 2005)

Dalmus A. Taylor Award (for pioneering leadership, scholarship and aggressive advocacy for inclusion of persons of color in higher education and psychology), The 2005 National Multicultural Conference and Summit

Distinguished Contribution to the Minority Fellowship Program Award, American Psychological Association, 2004

President's Award, The Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, Division 45 of the American Psychological Association, 2003

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

books

Franklin, A.J. (2004). From Brotherhood to Manhood: How Black men rescue their relationships and dreams from the invisibility syndrome. New York: John Wiley & Son.

Boyd-Franklin, N., Franklin, A. J. & Toussaint, P. (2000). Boys into Men: Raising our African American teenage sons. New York: Dutton.

chapters

Franklin, A.J. (2006). A dialogue about gender, race, and invisibility in psychotherapy with African American men. In J.C. Muran (Ed.). Dialogues on difference: Diversity studies of the therapeutic relationship (pp. 117-131). Washington DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Franklin, A.J. (2006). Truth in advertising: Therapeutic competence means undoing racism and sexism. In J.C. Muran (Ed.). Dialogues on difference: Studies in Diversity in the therapeutic relationship (pp. 146-150). Washington DC: American Psychological Association Books.

Franklin, A.J., Boyd-Franklin, N., & Draper, C.V. (2002). A psychological and educational perspective on black parenting. In H. P. McAdoo (Ed.). Black children: Social, educational, and parental environments (2nd Ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Franklin, A.J. & Davis, T. (2001). Therapeutic support groups as a primary intervention for issues of fatherhood with African American men. In J. Fagan & A. J. Hawkins (Eds.). Clinical and educational interventions with fathers. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press.

Franklin, A. J. (1999). Therapeutic support groups for African American men. In L. E. Davis (Ed.). African American males: A practice guide. Newbury, CA. Sage Publications.

Franklin, A.J. (1998). Treating anger in a support group for African American men. In W. S. Pollack & R. F. Levant (Eds.). New Psychotherapy for men: Case studies. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Boyd-Franklin, N., & Franklin, A.J. (1998). African American couples in therapy. In M. McGoldrick (Ed.). Revisioning family therapy. New York: The Guilford Press.

Franklin, A.J. (1998). The Invisibility Syndrome in Psychotherapy with African American Males. In R.L. Jones(Ed), African American mental health. Hampton, VA: Cobb & Henry Publishers.

Franklin, A.J. (1997). Sociolinguistic structure of word lists and ethnic group differences in categorized recall. In M. Cole, Y. Engestrom, & O. Vasquez (Eds.). Mind, culture, and activity: Seminal papers from the laboratory of comparative human cognition (pp. 70-78). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Franklin, A.J. (1996). An index of psychological well-being among African Americans. In R.L. Jones (Ed.), Handbook of tests and measurements for Black populations (pp. 587-595). Hampton, VA: Cobb and Henry Publishers.

articles

Franklin, A.J., Boyd-Franklin, N. & Kelly, S. (2006). Racism and invisibility: Race-related stress, emotional abuse and psychological trauma for people of color. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 6(2/3), 9-30.

Franklin, A. J. & Boyd-Franklin, N. (2000, January). Invisibility syndrome: A clinical model towards understanding the effects of racism upon African American males. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70(1), 33-41.

Franklin, A. J. (1999, November). Invisibility syndrome and racial identity development in psychotherapy and counseling African American men. The Counseling Psychologist, 27(6), 761-793.

Franklin, A. J. (1999, November). Visibility is important too: Viewing the larger systemic model. The Counseling Psychologist, 27(6), 820-826.

Franklin, A. J. (1997, Summer). Friendship issues between African American men in a therapeutic support group. Journal of African American Men, 3(1), 29-43.