|
 Dr. Esther J. Jenkins is a Professor of Psychology at Chicago State
University and a Senior Research Associate at the community Mental
Health Council in Chicago. Her current research interests are
trauma and grief among African American children and youth and HIV
risk behaviors among African American women. She received her B.A.
degree from Northwestern University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Some of Dr. Jenkins publications include:
| Jenkins, E. J. (2002). Black women and community
violence: trauma, grief, and coping. Women and Therapy, 25, 29-44. Co-published
simultaneously in C. West (Ed.), Violence in the lives of black women: Battered,
black and blue. Pp. 29-44. NYC: The Haworth Press. |
| Jenkins, E. J. (2001). Violence and trauma in the
lives of African American Children. In A. Neal-Barnett, J. Contreras, & K. Kerns
(Eds.), Forging links: African American Children: Clinical Developmental
Perspectives. Westport , Conn : Praeger. |
| Mattis, J., Bell , C.C, Jaegers, R., Jenkins, E.
J. (1999). Towards a critical approach to stress related disorders in African
Americans. Journal of the National Medical Association. 91. 80-85. |
| Jenkins, E. J., Kpo, W., Barr, M. (1997). Alcohol
use, drug use, and violence exposure of CSU students: A report to the Family
Life Center . In Perkins, U.E. (ed.), Binkabj: Research papers on violence
prevention. Chicago: Chicago State University, Family Life Center. |
| Jenkins, E. J. and Bell , C.C. (1997). Exposure
and response to community violence among children and adolescents. N J. Osofsky
(ed), Children in a Violent Society. New York : Guildford Press. |
| Uehara, E., Chalmers, D., Jenkins, E., Shakoor, B.
(1996). African American youth encounters with violence: Results from the
Community Mental Health Council, Inc. Violence Screening Project. Journal of
Black Studies, 26. 768-781. |
| Jenkins, E. J. Children's exposure to community
violence, (1996). In Proceedings of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the
African American Community. Washington , D.C. : U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Community
Services. |
| Jenkins, E. J. (1995) Violence exposure,
psychological distress, and risk behaviors in a sample of inner city youth In R.
Block & C. Block (eds.), trends, Risks and Interventions in Lethal Violence,
Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of Homicide Research Working
Group, Atlanta. Washington : National Institute of Justice. |
| Bell , C. C., Jenkins, E. J. (1995) Violence
prevention and intervention in juvenile correctional facilities. Journal of
Correctional Health Care. 2, 17-38. |
| Jenkins, E. J. and Bell , C. C. (1994) Violence
among inner city high school students and post-traumatic stress disorders. In S.
Friedman, (ed.), Anxiety Disorders in African-Americans. New York : Springer
Publishing Co. |
| Bell , C. C. and Jenkins, E. J. (1994) Isolated
sleep paralysis in African Americans: Relationship to anxiety disorders. In S.
Friedman, (ed.) Anxiety Disorders in African - Americans. New York : Springer
Publishing. |
| Bell , C. C., Jenkins, E. J., Kpo, W., & Rhodes,
H. (1994). Emergency rooms responses to victims of interpersonal violence.
Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 45. 142-147. |
| Bell , C. C., Jenkins, E. J. (1993). Using
surveillance in homicide and violence prevention. In C. R. Block & R. L. Block
(eds.), Questions and Answer in Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence: Proceedings of
the First Annual Workshop of the Homicide Research Working Group. Washington
D.C. : National Institute of Justice. |
| Bell , C. C., & Jenkins, E. J. (1993). Community
violence and children on the south side of Chicago. Published simultaneously in
Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Process. 56, 46-54. And in D. Reiss. J.
Richter, M. Hadke - Yarrow, & D. Shcaff (Eds.. Children and Violence. New York
: Guilford Press. |
| Jenkins, E. J., & Bell, C. C. (1992) Adolescent violence: Can
it be curbed. Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. 3, 71-86. |
| Bell, C. C. & Jenkins, E. J. (1991). Children and traumatic
stress. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2, 175-185. |
| Bell , C. C., & Jenkins, E. J. (1990). Preventing black
homicide. In J. Dewart, (Ed.), The State of Black America , 1990. (pp. 143-155 &
319-323) New York : National Urban League. |
| Salloum, I, Jenkins, E. J., Thompson, B., Levi, D., & Burnett,
Y. (1990). treatment Compliance and hostility levels of head injured psychiatric
outpatients. Journal of the National Medical Association, 82. 557-564. |
| Jenkins, E. J., Bell , C. C., Taylor , J., Walker, L. (1989).
Circumstances of sexual and physical victimization of black psychiatric
outpatients. Journal of the national Medical Association, 81. 246-252. |
| Bell, C. C., Hildreth, C. J., Jenkins, E. J. Levi, D., &
Carter, C. (1988). The need for victimization screening in a poor, outpatient
medical population. Journal of the National Medical Association, 80. 853-860. |
| Bell, C. C., Taylor-Crawford, K., Jenkins, E. J. & Carter, C.
(1998) Investigation of the relationship between isolate sleep paralysis, panic
disorder, and hypertension. Journal of the National Medical Association, 80.
289-298. |
| Uehara, E., Chalmers, D., Jenkins, E. J., & Shakoor, B.,
(1996). African-American youth encounters with violence: Results from the
Community Mental Health Council violence screening project. Journal of Black
Studies, 26, 768-781. |
| Bell , C. C., & Jenkins, E. J. (1995). Violence prevention and
intervention in juvenile correctional facilities. Journal of Correctional Health
Care, 2, 17-38. |
| Jenkins, E. J. (1995). Children's exposure to community
violence. In Proceedings of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African
American Community (pp. 107-117). Washington , DC : U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. |
| Bell , C. C., Jenkins, E. J., Kpo, W., & Rhodes, H. (1994).
Emergency rooms' responses to victims of interpersonal violence. Hospital and
Community Psychiatry, 45, 142-147. |
| Bell , C. C., & Jenkins, E. J. (1994). Isolated sleep
paralysis in African-Americans: Relationship to anxiety disorders. In S.
Friedman (Ed.), Anxiety disorders in African Americans . New York : Springer
Publishing Co. |
| Jenkins, E. J., & Bell , C. C. (1994). Exposure to violence,
psychological distress, and risk behaviors in a sample of inner city high school
students. In S. Friedman (Ed.), Anxiety disorders in African Americans (pp.
76-88). New York : Springer Publishing Co. |
| Bell , C. C., & Jenkins, E. J. (1991). Children and traumatic
stress. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2, 175-185. |
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