Professor, Social Justice Advocate, Counselor Educator, Clinical Mental Health Counselor, former School Counselor. Tweets/RTs my own. Pronouns: He/Him/His
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
📢 International Journal of Modern Education Studies presents new research on child-centered play therapy for children with cancer.
Findings show:
🧸 Significant improvement in quality of life
💛 Reduced anxiety & depression
🎯 Enhanced emotional expression
📽 Watch the highlights in our latest video.
#PlayTherapy #PediatricOncology #MentalHealth #IJONMES
🔗 Full article: doi.org/10.51383/ijonmes.202…
#PlayTherapy #ChildHealth #PediatricOncology #MentalHealth #IJONMES
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
Spread the word! Applications for the Minority Fellowship Program are open until June 30. Apply for a fellowship ranging from $12,000 to $22,000 for educational support.
🔗Learn more and apply at nbccf.org/programs. #NBCCF #Fellowships #Counseling #Scholarships #BridgeTheGap
ALT Image of an adult smiling at the camera. The text reads, “NBCC Foundation. Apply for a Counseling Fellowship! Awards range from $12,000–$22,000 for educational support. Application deadline is June 30, 2025.”
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
What is #HealthDisparityResearch? Where can you access comprehensive minority health and health disparities data? If you have these questions or more, visit #HDPulse to get publicly accessible data and evidence-based interventions all in one place! ➡️ bit.ly/4cIuuPA
ALT HDPulse Health Disparity Research A multi-disciplinary field of study devoted to gaining greater scientific knowledge about the influence of health determinants; understanding the role of mechanisms; and determining how this knowledge is translated into interventions to reduce or eliminate adverse health outcomes. National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities logo.
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
On this day in 1865, following the emancipation of Black people, South Carolina passed a law requiring labor contracts to refer to white people as "masters" and Black people as "servants."
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine." cbs12.com/news/local/broward…
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
Saying bye bye to this site by sharing my last @ASR_Journal pub, w amazing colab @mioana! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/000312242412…
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
📣New Pub 📣
Excited about this new pub on #JusticeJoyHealing
I summarize our @APADivision17 yearlong initiative & I share thoughts about the healing ingredients of joy and much more
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
The work doesn’t stop ✊🏽. In our @IJQMonline article, @LatoyaTeague and I developed Black ancestral text analysis, a qual method to help educational researchers re(cover) ancestral messages in Black intellectual archives. Read here and share widely:
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
Just accepted at Clinical Psych Science ✨
"Engaging people with lived experience of psychological disorders: Current research and future directions for community-engaged measure development in psychological science"
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
New article with @AtkinAnnabelle examining the associations between parent-adolescent attachment, racism, and mental health among Asian American adolescents!
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
On November 19, 1906, white employers in San Antonio refused to hire wrongfully discharged Black veterans seeking employment, in an effort to drive them out of town. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
This week is National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week—a time to recognize and address hunger and homelessness and its impact. Let’s raise awareness and support initiatives that provide vital resources for those in need: samhsa.gov/homelessness-prog…
ALT National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week from November 18-26, against an autumnal cityscape background.
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
On this day in 1983, Chicago police officers acting under Commander Jon Burge beat and tortured James Cody, a Black man. For 30 years, Commander Burge tortured over 100 Black men to force confessions. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
Congratulations to @UMDPublicHealth @BCHUMD alum @DrJohnSalerno on his latest publication on mental health risk and protection among first-generation Latinx immigrant youth. We appreciate your great work! #mentalhealth #latinx #research #communityhealth
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
On this day in 1937, 1,000 white students and faculty at the University of North Carolina gathered in support of a speech openly advocating white supremacy by the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
New publication alert! Loved dreaming this work up alongside my sistas!! #BlackGirlhoodStudies
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E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
“racism-based potentially traumatic events demonstrated stronger associations with PTSD, MDD and GAD compared to conventional PTEs… racial discrimination is a unique traumatic stressor with distinct impacts on minoritized youth” @ChardeeGalan @HeyArtez @EmilySatinsky @itselaynez
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
Latine/x immigrant youth with strong psychosocial resources (high family, peer, and school support, and sense of ethnic identity, and low immigrant stress) were protected from mental illness compared to youth with weak or average psychosocial resources. Therefore, Latine/x immigrant youth may require strong, multilevel psychosocial resources to experience optimal mental health. doi.org/10.1177/109019812412…
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
Check out our new publication! @UTSACOEHD @CounselingUTSA 🔽🔽🔽
E Mackenzie (Ken) Shell, Ph.D., LPC, CAADC retweeted
On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death. calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
