Palo Alto University profiled in TALK BUSINESS 360, an inflight TV show on American Airline's First and
Business Class during the months of August and September, 2016. Dr.
Alvin Thomas, Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Excellence
in Diversity, was interviewed for his work on youth and violence.
Palo Alto University:
Palo Alto University (PAU) is a nonprofit
and private educational institution established in 1975as the Pacific Graduate
School of Psychology (PGSP) which was an independent school and in 1986
accredited by the regional accrediting body, the Western Association of Schools
and Colleges.PGSP re-incorporated as Palo Alto University in August 2009.
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Transcription of Video is given below:
Speaker: [00:00:00]Next we hear
from Palo Alto University a nonprofit and private educational institution
dedicated to improving lives through education and research. Dr. Alvin Thomas
is the co-director of the Center for Excellence in diversity at Palo Alto
University and he's been engaged in research at Palo Alto on how exposure to
violence affects the development of youth. He joins us now to tell us more. Dr.
Thomas welcome.
Dr. Thomas: [00:00:25] Well thank you
very much for having me.
Speaker: [00:00:26] Dr. Thomas
start by telling us a bit about yourself and your institution Palo Alto University.
Dr. Thomas: [00:00:32] I am an
assistant professor at Palo Alto University and co-director for the center for
excellence and diversity and originally from the island of St. Lucia. I teach
classes and cultural diversity in clinical psychology as well as a seminar
called Psychology of the African-American child. My research lab investigates
the risk and protective factors associated with positive youth development and
I focus on self-efficacy enhancement father son relationships and parenting.
Speaker: [00:01:01] you’ve been
doing research on how exposure to actual physical violence and experiences
where youths have seen or heard about violence can affect them. What have you
found?
Dr. Thomas: [00:01:09] Alongside
parenting practices, School resources and community support self-efficacy
beliefs continued to predict positive youth development especially so for youth
who have witnessed physical violence and by self-efficacy what I mean is youth
confidence in their own ability to avoid specific negative behaviors. Self-efficacy
is an internal asset that clinician’steacher’s community organizations
policymakers and even parents must seek to enhance in youth who live in low
income and high crime neighborhoods. There is no doubt that growing up black in
America in urban settings is a significant risk to children and youth. In fact
some work has suggested that the trauma and PTSD symptomatology associated with
these life situations are similar to that of war veterans and read found in war
torn regions like Iraq and Afghanistan witnessing physical violence therefore
is a major risk for future youth violence. However for children who have
witnessed violence parents can enhance the self-efficacy of youth and reduce
future violence by monitoring their children by becoming involved in the lives
of their children and by communicating about specific risk factors like
witnessing physical violence.
Speaker: [00:02:32] That was Dr.
Alvin Thomas. Learn more about Palo Alto University by visiting paloaltou.edu
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