Clinical Psychologist

RESUME

EARNEST H-R. BLACKSHEAR, JR., PH.D.

Chairman & CEO, Black-Belt Psychological Services, LLC

PO Box 0583, Tuskegee Institute, AL 36087-0583

Phone: 334-***-**** (office); 334-***-**** (fax) **.*****.****@*****.***

Alabama Licensed Clinical Psychologist: #1551

Arizona Licensed Clinical Psychologist: #4872

American College of Forensic Examiners Institute: #116795 Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards – Certificate of Professional Qualifications: #4563

National Provider Identifier (NPI): #138*******

US Navy/USS Suribachi AE-21 – Honorable Discharge

Disabled Veteran – Service Connected

Licensed clinical psychologist with an expertise that addresses the forensic assessment, and clinical assessment/diagnosis/treatment of trauma-related psychopathology (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] and Dissociative Disorders) and addictions. Developed a private practice that addresses community psychopathology in the domains of clinical, forensic, and educational psychology. Launched and managed a profitable Casemanagement program and worked as an administrator and provider for Project Liberty 9/11 in NYC. Taught courses for a total of 11 years at the undergraduate collegiate level to include: general, personality, abnormal and clinical psychology in classrooms that ranged from 20 - 370 students; directed 2 undergraduate research laboratories; supervised theses; and clinically supervised graduate students, masters- level therapists, and APA-accredited, pre-doctoral interns. EDUCATION

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY. Awarded the Ph.D. from an APA-approved doctoral program in clinical psychology. Honors: Patricia Roberts-Harris Fellow; Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology; and Phi Delta Kappa International Honor Society in Education. Minor: Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychology with an emphasis in organizational stress. Service: Campus Representative, American Psychological Association of Graduate Students; Chapter Advisor, Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology; Clinical Training Committee, Penn State Psychology Department; Faculty Advisory Committee, Penn State Department of Continuing Education; Residential Advisory Board, Centre County Housing Authority. Blackshear Resume - Page 2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Forensic Psychology Consultant (03/16-current) – Office of the Public Defender, Montgomery, AL. Volunteering on a pro bono basis for services as a Certified Forensic Consultant to attorneys that work for the public defender’s office in trial consultations that address the following legal domains: mitigating factors and diminished capacity; competency to stand trial; evaluation of opposing expert reports and rebuttal testimony; and defense mitigation assessments for capital murder cases.

CEO & CHAIRMAN (10/15-current) - Black-Belt Psychological Services, LLC, Tuskegee Institute, AL. Offering a variety of clinical, educational, and forensic psychological services. The Clinical Department provides consultations and clinical supervision for non-profit organizations; direct services in therapy; assessments, evaluations, and specialized assessment and therapy for PTSD and/or Dissociative Disorders in selective at-risk youth populations and personality, intelligence, and achievement testing. Clinical expertise has been established in therapy for psychopathology associated with community stress and violence in environments of concentrated poverty in the Black-Belt region of Alabama. The Education Department provides consultations and needs assessments that diagnose, treat, and prevent symptoms associated with the “Culture of Concentrated Poverty” that operate as functional barriers to the service delivery of a quality public education. These psychosocial constructs are hypothesized to promote, maintain, and/or exacerbate educational cynicism and attrition-related outcomes in families from these impoverished Black-Belt communities. The Forensic Department addresses mitigating factors and diminished capacity; evaluation of opposing expert reports and rebuttal testimony; and defense mitigation assessments for capital murder cases. Expertise has been established in providing the courts with the ability to empirically identify mechanisms that promote, maintain, and exacerbate maladaptive traumatic-stress responses often involved in violent criminal acts that are highly associated with the psychological dynamics directly related to the intensity, frequency, and the nature of the childhood/adulthood exposure to traumatic violence. DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL SERVICES (01/10-current) - The BRANT (Battering Recidivism and Negative Trends) Center, Selma, AL. Providing direct services, supervision, and clinical oversight for 6-9 master’s level therapists and 8-12 behavioral aides that provide wrap-around services for a clinical population of Black adolescents in the public-school system that come from communities of concentrated poverty and are supported by Medicaid in the rural Black-Belt region of South-Central Alabama. Diagnoses range from depression and anxiety, to the more recalcitrant diagnoses of Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Conduct Disorder, maladaptive trauma-responses to stress (PTSD and Dissociative Disorders) and Substance Use Disorders. The Census Bureau counted 15,908 (82%) Black residents and 3,562 (18%) White residents in the city of Selma on average between 2009 and 2013. The poverty rate for the Black population was 48.4%, compared to 14.4 % for the White population. Additionally, more than 40% of Black families and 67% of Black children in the county live below the poverty line; with 80% of Black students receiving free lunch in the school district. The ‘violent crime index’ (VCI) is five times higher than the state average, and as such, has often been called "Alabama's Third World." Blackshear Resume - Page 3

CHAIRMAN (08/12-01/15) - Montgomery Task Force on Community Violence, City Department of Public Safety, MPD, Montgomery, AL. Initiated an awareness campaign for Leadership Montgomery that introduced community violence as a “Biopsychosocial” phenomenon, that when properly assessed and diagnosed could be treated and prevented with techniques deployed in the field of Community Health Psychology. Worked with the MPD DART (Directed Area Response Team/Gang Unit) for 200+ hours to gain an accurate understanding of how Montgomery’s “Street Code” may have differed from Elijah Anderson’s original ethnographic analyses of the “Code of the Streets” in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; developed and facilitated a stress-management program for MPD that provided cultural sensitivity training to 147 patrol officers to date (588 clock hours); and currently working with MPD administrative leadership on Comp Stat crime prevention and awareness (statistical approach to predicting complaint statistics and crime patterns) and impression management strategies to address the legacy of acrimonious relations with the Black community of Montgomery; which is approximately 60% of the city’s population. Montgomery was ranked the 9th most densely Black Populated Metropolitan City of 200,000, or more, citizens within the continental US by the 2010 US Census; with a Birmingham being 4th. DIRECTOR (03/12-08/16) - Community Stress & Violence Research Laboratory, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL. Developed a scientist-practitioner model of training that examined the unique psychopathology that develops within cultures of concentrated poverty predominated by a Street Code Lifestyle. In other words, provided a contemporary biopsychosocial analysis that moved beyond the traditional antisocial umbrella provided by the by the American Psychiatric Association. Thus, initiated a clinical assessment agenda that utilized test construction strategies that psychometrically evaluated unique forms of psychopathology not formally codified by the mainstream medical establishment that have persistently plagued US Black communities for over 3 decades to include: attrition-related outcomes in public education; emergent culture of single-led women families; 2/3 of males supervised by the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC); and IMF Homicides. These issues are additionally compounded by an extreme lack of knowledge of clinical psychology which in turn, prevents health seeking behaviors and indirectly promotes the leading cause of death for US Black males aged 15-34 (same aged White males is unintentional injuries, or accidents) in general and within Black-Belt communities of Alabama specifically. Mentored students in the statistical acquisition, analysis and reporting of findings using the SPSS 18 application software. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY (08/10-07/16) - Department of Psychology, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL. Developed lesson plans, established, and maintained a web-based course management system (Blackboard), and created examinations for Theories of Personality, Abnormal and Clinical Psychology - 4 sections taught per semester (2 in summer) with approximately 35 students per section. Developed 3 online courses in Theories of Personality, Abnormal Psychology and Clinical Psychology that were taught in the department’s Accelerated Online Program. Total of 57 sections/courses taught to date. Blackshear Resume - Page 4

LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST (01/08-07/10) – Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine Service, Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS)-East Campus Hospital, Tuskegee, AL. Facilitated individual and group psychotherapy sessions; developed treatment plans; implemented evidence-based approaches in the treatment of PTSD, Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), and personality disorders. Initiated a Video-Telemedicine (V- Tel) protocol projected from the Tuskegee East-Campus to facilitate group psychotherapy at understaffed VA Community-based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) in Dothan, AL and Columbus, GA; developed the first Intensive Outpatient Dual-diagnosis Treatment Program for a predominantly Black population (92%); and supervised Psychology Interns in all aspects of these clinical applications.

ADJUNCT FACULTY (06/08-05/10) - Department of Psychology & Sociology, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute, AL. Developed lesson plans, established, and maintained a web-based course management system (BlackBoard), and developed examinations for 2-3 sections of Introductory and Abnormal Psychology classes of approximately 60 students per semester. Total of 10 sections taught to date.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (06/09-05/10) - National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Institute, AL. Developed a research agenda to address two objectives in Alabama’s Black-Belt Region: (a) to clinically identify the psychosocial mechanisms that promoted racial health disparities related to community violence; and (b) to formally test the Black Vulnerability Hypothesis for PTSD development. NON-TENURED INSTRUCTOR (01/03-06/07) - Department of Continuing Education, The Pennsylvania State University. Developed lesson plans, established, and maintained a web- based course management system (Angel), and developed examinations for 2-3 sections of Introductory Psychology classes of approximately 40 students per semester. 27 sections taught with an additional two sections taught for the psychology department (2006) with 370 students enrolled in each class for a grand total of 29 sections taught to date. LABORATORY DIRECTOR (01/03-06/06) - The Stress and Anxiety Disorders Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Developed a scientist-practitioner model of training for advanced undergraduate research assistants under the supervision of Dr. Thomas D. Borkovec; Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Director of the Institute, and expert in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and worry research. Facilitated weekly clinical agendas with an emphasis on the structural development of profiles that consisted of dissociated cognitive and/or emotional processes, collectively subsumed by personality traits, which were then tested as collective vulnerabilities to stressful encounters for clinical subjects diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Dissociative Disorders. Instructed students in research/design and methods and discussed career development. Mentored students in statistical acquisition, analysis and reporting of findings using the SPSS 11 application software.

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ASSISTANT PROJECT COORDINATOR (09/01-08/02) - Project Liberty/911, City Department of Public Health, NY, NY. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funded, disaster-recovery program managed by the New York State Office of Mental Health. Reported directly to the Project Coordinator of Queensboro and attended monthly administrative meetings at Project Liberty Headquarters in Manhattan. Provided direct services as a crisis counselor; provided grief services for surviving family members who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center Disaster and took them on boat cruises from the Midtown Piers down the Hudson River to Ground Zero and allowed them to observe the clean-up efforts for 15 minutes and then presented them with a memorial flag and an urn (with soil from Ground Zero) on behalf of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to assist in promoting psychological closure for their grief process (as there were no identifiable remains of their loved ones to have a traditional funeral); delivered outreach services to underserved, minority citizens on subways, in transportation hubs (Grand Central Station and Port Authority Bus Terminal) and in low-income, housing projects to assess increased levels of substance abuse in federally-determined, high impact zones of concentrated poverty in the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Harlem. PROGRAM DIRECTOR (10/99-01/03) - Adult Casemanagement Services, Steinway Child

& Family Services Inc., Long Island City, NY. Developed an Assisted-Outpatient Treatment

(AOT) program in a double apartment in the Queensbridge Housing Projects that serviced urban Black consumers who suffered with serious and persistent mental illnesses (SPMIs). Prior to this assignment, was the Acting Director and substance abuse counselor for the Scattered-Site Housing Program that serviced dually-diagnosed clients with HIV/AIDS and substance abuse issues. Duties consisted of biannual substance abuse assessments; program development for the AOT startup program; NY State and federal regulatory compliance; budget evaluations; individual and group supervision of clinical staff; development of partnerships with local hospitals, medical centers, mental health agencies, other non-profits and community organizations; and provided staff development that enhanced service delivery to the SPMI, HIV/AIDS and dually-diagnosed minority populations that resided within federally-determined, high impact zones of concentrated poverty of the Queensboro catchment area of New York City. APA-APPROVED PSYCHOLOGY PRE-DOCTORAL INTERNSHIP (09/98-08/99) – North Chicago Veterans Medical Center, Veterans Affairs, North Chicago, IL. Functioned as a junior psychologist under the supervision of a licensed psychologist in this regional medical center. Facilitated individual and group psychotherapy sessions; developed treatment plans; operated as a medical liaison to primary care providers; administrated and interpreted psychological evaluations in the domains of intelligence, personality, and vocational and rehabilitation assessments; and developed outreach programs to identify eligible veterans who were currently not using services. Implemented cognitive-behavioral, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), hypnotic and integrative techniques in the treatment of veterans with PTSD, substance use disorders, personality disorders, and consumers with housing and/or vocational issues. Completed 2,260 hours of service, of which 850+ hours involved client contact/clinical supervision.

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APA-APPROVED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY PRACTICUM (09/97-08/98) – The Psychological Clinic, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Under the supervision of a licensed psychologist, functioned as a staff therapist/assessor in a psychological clinic that provided out-patient, mental health services to a predominantly rural, low SES, Caucasian clientele (94%) that were declared indigent and received support from the Medicaid managed-care system of the Centre County government. Developed treatment plans for a variety of clients in the psychodynamic, interpersonal, and cognitive-behavioral approaches to psychotherapy; provided crisis management for the rural Centre County community at-large; and administrated and interpreted psychological evaluations in the assessment domains of intelligence, personality, neuropsychology, and psycho-educational testing. Completed 900+ hours of clinical supervision, and 750+ hours of client contact in this clinical practicum. GRADUATE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTSHIP (08/97-08/98) - Center for Minority Graduate Opportunities, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Operated as a project manager who was charged with identifying and meeting the unique minority-centered programming needs that promote and foster academic success for both graduate and undergraduate students of color. Developed and facilitated a two-semester series of stress-management workshops for undergraduate pre-medical students who were preparing for the MCAT; coordinated technical writing and statistical workshops for doctoral candidates; and developed workshops geared towards the retention of minority graduate students and prevention of the Terminal ABD Syndrome.

PUBLICATIONS

Blackshear Jr., E.H.R. (03/10). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Structural Approach. Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing. http://www.amazon.com/Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder-PTSD-Structural/dp/383-***-**** This treatise represents my primary research that assesses who would be most likely to develop PTSD when exposed to a traumatic life event (TLE). After working at Ground Zero, in the aftermath of 9/11, it became abundantly clear that an assessment method was necessary to triage individuals to determine service delivery priorities for stress-related issues. This work was generated with a prevention model in mind and attempted to develop a non- intrusive means of assessing at-risk status for those who are most likely to develop the most severe forms of this disease. A theoretical case for these predictions was proposed however, the overall results suggested an alternative interpretation. The individual facets that yielded the strongest relationship suggested that not introversion and neuroticism, but higher levels of trust with lower levels of competence; in conjunction with the amnestic form of dissociative coping established the strongest association with PTSD symptom severity. These results converge with a social- cognitive perspective of shattered assumptions (Janoff-Bulman, 1992) that may suggest core beliefs maintain symptom severity.

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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2017, February). Human Trafficking, Victimology, and a Trauma- Informed Response within Criminal Justice System Procedures: Implications for The Judiciary Prosecutors, Law Enforcement Officers, and Advocates. Black-Belt Psychological Services LLC, National Bar Association, Judicial Council Mid-Winter Conference, Magdalena Grand Beach and Golf Resort, Tobago Plantations Estate, Lowlands, Trinidad/Tobago, W.I. Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2015, August). Awareness of how Potentially Violent Encounters with Young Males Can Promote Legal Cynicism and Community Mistrust of MPD in the Black Community. Black-Belt Psychological Services LLC, Montgomery Police Department, Montgomery, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2015, July). Poverty, Pessimism, and Nihilism: How Culturally-driven Coping Strategies Can Adversely Impact Psychological and Educational Outcomes. Black-Belt Psychological Services LLC, The Alabama State Department of Education, 2015 MEGA Conference, Mobile Convention Center, Mobile, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R & Holton, M.G. (2015, May). The Psychological Nature of Maladaptive Trauma Responses: Implications for the Development of Criminal Defense Strategies and the Mitigation of the Capital Murder Defendant. Black-Belt Psychological Services LLC, Montgomery County Bar Association, Montgomery County Courthouse, Third Floor Jury Assembly Room, Montgomery, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R., Parker, D., Akintola, T. & Kelley, L. (2015, April). My People are Destroyed for the Lack of Knowledge! Black-Belt Psychological Services LLC, Gnosis Edutainment Productions, Maggie Street Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL. Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2015, February). How the Culture of Concentrated Poverty can become a Barrier to the Delivery of a Public Education! Black-Belt Psychological Services LLC, Poverty, and Academic Achievement Cohort - Learning Support Services, Sylacauga Board of Education, Sylacauga, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2014, September). Pessimism, Nihilism & Increased Exposure Rates for Gun Violence in Black Youth: Cultural Risk Factors for Adopting a “Street Code/G-Code” Belief-Value System. Presented the “Biopsychosocial Model of Community Violence” to Leadership Montgomery, Montgomery Taskforce on Community Violence, Montgomery Police Academy, Montgomery, AL.

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Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2014, July). The 2013 Alabama Accountability Act and the Profile of Failure: A Biopsychosocial Approach to the Unique Needs of Adolescent Students from Women-Led, Single-Parent Families within Communities of Concentrated Poverty. Montgomery Taskforce on Community Violence, The Alabama State Department of Education, 2015 MEGA Conference, Mobile Convention Center, Mobile, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2013, October). Black Males and the New Jim Crow: Where Do We Go from Here? Montgomery Taskforce on Community Violence, The Alabama Council on Crime and Delinquency, 65th Annual Study Conference, Embassy Suites Conference Center, Montgomery, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2013, September). Nihilism, the ‘Code of the Streets’ & PTSD: Biopsychosocial Risk Factors that Increase the Intentional Misuse of Firearm Homicides. Presented the “Biopsychosocial Model of Community Violence” to Leadership Montgomery, Montgomery Taskforce on Community Violence, Montgomery Police Academy, Montgomery, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2013, April). Awareness of how Potentially Violent Encounters with Young Males Can Promote Legal Cynicism and Community Mistrust of MPD in the Black Community. Montgomery Taskforce on Community Violence, Montgomery Police Department, Montgomery, AL.

Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. & Doran, C. (2012, August). An Introduction to the “Code of the Streets” in Black Neighborhoods of Concentrated Poverty as a Psychosocial Pollutant. Poster presented at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4 Environmental Justice Conference, Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, Atlanta, GA. Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2012, August). Black-on-Black Homicide as a Racial Health Disparity and the Need to Establish a Montgomery Taskforce on Community Violence. Montgomery Taskforce on Community Violence, Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall, Montgomery, AL. Blackshear, Jr., E.H.R. (2012, April). Black-on-Black Homicide: A Biopsychosocial Model of Assessment and Intervention. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Troy Psychology Conference, Troy University, Troy, AL.

Blackshear Jr., E.H.R. (2009, September). Clinical Treatment of Veterans with PTSD at the Tuskegee Veterans Hospital: Lessons Learned about the Black Vulnerability Hypothesis. Alabama Ujima Chapter of NABSW, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL. Blackshear Jr., E.H.R. (2008, March). Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and the Black Vulnerability Hypothesis. APA Approved Psychology Pre-Doctoral Internship, Veterans Affairs, Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System (CAVHCS), East Campus - Tuskegee, AL.

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AWARDS & SERVICE

Creative Research Fellow (2004-06), Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., 2nd District.

Faculty Diversity Award (2005), The Pennsylvania State University, Multi-Cultural Resource Center, University Park, PA.

2005 Alumni Achievement Award, Kansas Wesleyan Alumni Association, Salina, KS.

Omega Man of the Year (2005), Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., Iota Lambda Lambda Chapter #912, State College, PA.

Faculty of Excellence Award (2006), The Pennsylvania State University, Fraternity and Sorority Life, University Park, PA.

State Representative (2006-08), Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Corridor VII (from central Pennsylvania to the Ohio border), 2nd District.

Life Membership #5222 (2007), Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Omega Life Membership Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC.

Employee of the Month (September, 2008), Veterans Affairs, Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System – East Campus, Tuskegee, AL.

Life Member #096******* (2008), Penn State Alumni Association, The College of Liberal Arts, University Park, PA.

Board of Directors (2008-10), Veteran’s Resource Center #816, Selma AL.

3 Customer Service Awards (August, 2009), Veterans Affairs, Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System – East Campus, Tuskegee, AL.

Psychology Club Advisor (2009-10), Tuskegee University, Psychology Department, Tuskegee Institute, AL.

Recovery Clinician of the Year (October, 2009), Veterans Affairs, Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System – East Campus, Tuskegee, AL.

Basileus (2010-11), Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., Iota Omega Chapter #507, Tuskegee Institute, AL.

Senior Warden (2011-12), Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Alabama, Silver Trowel #10, Tuskegee Institute, AL.

Psychology Club Advisor (2011-12), Alabama State University, Psychology Department, Montgomery, AL.

Preceptor (2011-13), Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC), Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U-STAR), National Institute of Health (NIH), Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL.

Undergraduate Chapter Advisor (2012-currrent), Delta Phi Delta Dance Fraternity, Inc., Xi Chapter #14, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners

Alabama Board of Examiners in Psychology

American College of Forensic Examiners Institute

Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards

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