Kirkland C. Vaughans | Faculty Profiles

Diplomas/Degrees

PhD, Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University (1985)

Licenses and Certifications

CERTIFICATIONS

2014 Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: International Association of Trauma

Professionals.

Jan 1999 Relational Framework for Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral Principles in Brief

Psychotherapy Beth Israel Medical Center, NY. (21 CE credits).

1995-98 Child and Adolescent Postdoctoral Psychotherapy Program. Derner Institute: Adelphi

University, NY

1996 Certificate of Specialization in Clinical Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Postdoctoral

Program Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. New York University, NY

LICENSE

1991 Licensed Clinical Psychologist, State of New York

Certified School Psychologist, State of New York

Professional Experience

2017- July Director: Postgraduate Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy. Derner Institute of Advance Psychological Studies. Adelphi University. Garden City, NY.

2001- 2017 School Psychologist: Hempstead High school, Hempstead, NY. Provide individual and group counseling, crises intervention, diagnostic assessments, Chair Sub-committee on Special education (CSE). Director of the Team Center: Provide supervision for clinical interns, crises intervention for students and community outreach. District Chairperson for CSE 2005- 2007.

2004-2005 Consulting Psychologist: Five Towns Community Center, Inc. Hempstead, New York. Conducting mental status assessments for persons who have contacted HIV/AIDS with a history of substance abuse.

2003--2006 Consulting Psychologist: Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center, Inc. Brooklyn, NY. Provide psychological assessments for applicants for Access-A-Ride..

1992-2001 Regional Director: New Hope Guild Centers, Brooklyn, NY. Responsible for the administrative, fiscal and policy and procedural management of three OMH licensed, community-based mental health outpatient centers, an OASIS licensed, drug prevention and treatment center and an Alternative School for youth at risk. Other primary responsibilities include program development, community outreach, grant and proposal writing; graduate training programs, clinical supervision and treatment for children and adolescents.

1991-present Private Practice: Individual and Group psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults.in NYC.

1996-97 Psychologist: Good Samaritan Gates Child Development Center. Developmental assessments of infants and toddlers for admission to the Early Intervention Program.

1992-95 Chairman: Committee on Special Education (CSE) and the Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE). Wyandanch UFSD, NY. Conduct Annual Reviews, determine eligibility of referrals for special education services, and conduct Manifestation Determinations.

1981-Present Organizational Training Consultant: Conduct laboratory model training with educational, mental health and social service agencies. Topics include Team and Leadership Development, Cultural Competence, Group Dynamics, Training the Trainer and Conflict Resolution Skills.

1991-93 Consultant: Graham – Windham, Brooklyn, NY. Conducted adolescent group psychotherapy with foster children in group homes.

1989-91 School Psychologist: Middle School. Wyandanch, NY. Conducted psychological and educational diagnostic testing, individual and group counseling and parent- teacher consultations.

1989-91 Clinical Supervisor: New Hope Guild Centers, Brooklyn, NY. Provide individual/group supervision for staff psychotherapists and doctoral psychology externs.

1984-89 Clinic Director: New Hope Guild – Flatlands Center, Brooklyn, NY. Coordinated administrative and fiscal operation of an outpatient mental health center; program development, community outreach, direct services for children and adults in individual/group psychotherapy, and clinical supervision.

1983-84 Associate Director: New Hope Guild, Brooklyn, NY. Assisted Clinic Director with administrative and management duties, community outreach programs. Conducted case conferences, clinical supervision and individual/group treatment for youth and adults.

Recent Courses

S/T: Psychotherapy With Late Latency And Adolescent Youth

Behavior Disorders Of Childhood

Clinical Practice III: Psychotherapy Practicum

Multi-Cultural Issues In Counseling

Psychotherapy Case Conference I

Psychotherapy Case Conference II

Psychotherapy Case Conference III

Psychotherapy Case Conference IV

S/T: Community-Based Intervention: Working With The Underserved

Chapters

Vaughans, K. (in press) Black Children in the Eye of the Storm: The Intergenerational transmission of trauma. In Beverly Stoute & Michael Slevin (Eds.) The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter. New York: Routledge.

Vaughans, K. & Vaughans, R. (2019) Culture and play as key elements of identity formation and academic performance for children of color in primary education, In Marilyn Charles & Jill Bellison (Eds.}. The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education: Psychoanalytic, Attachment, and Developmental Perspectives.204-210. London: Routledge.

Vaughans, K. (2017) Confronting the Other Within: Introduction to Part 2. In Sue Grand & Jill Salberg (Eds.) Transgenerational Trauma and the Other. Routledge: Abingdon..

Vaughans, K. (2017) To Unchain Haunting Blood Memories: Intergenerational Trauma among African Americans. 226-242. In Jill Salberg & Sue Grand (Eds.) Wounds of History. Abingdon: Routledge.

Vaughans, K. (2015) To unchain haunting blood memories: Intergenerational trauma among African Americans. In Michael O’Loughlin & Marilyn Charles (Eds.) Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering.277-290, Lanham Roman & Littlefield

Vaughans, K. (2014). To Unchain Haunting Blood memories: Intergenerational Trauma Among African Americans.. In M O’ Loughlin (Ed.) Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (p.277-290). Lanham: Roman & Littlefield.

Vaughans, K. (2014) Disavowed Fragments of the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma from Slavery among African Americans. In K. Vaughans & W. Spielberg (Eds.) The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. Vol. 2 (pp.563-575), Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers.

Articles

Spielberg, W. & Vaughans, K. (January 18, 2016) See the Sweetness of Black Boys. Guest Editorial in the Daily News Newspaper, New York (p.21)

Vaughans, K. & Harris, L. (2016) The Police, Black and Hispanic Boys: A Dangerous Inability to Mentalize. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy 15: 1-7.

Vaughans, K. (2016). African-American Boys and Adolescents under the Shadow of Slavery’s Legacy. The American Psychoanalyst: Quarterly Magazine. Vol. 50: 6….29

Invited Presentations

The School to Prison Pipeline. Family Court Mental Health Services. New York City Health & Hospitals, New York.

Plugging the School-to –Prison Pipeline. Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. San Francisco, CA.

Moderator: Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity and Attachment by Stephen Seligman. Division 39 Annual Spring Conference: Philadelphia, PA.

Slavery Embodied: The Psychological Consequences of its Legacy in Our Culture Today for Children of Color. International Psychotherapy Institute. Rockville, MD.26

Political and Clinical Issues of Race & Ethnicity in Psychoanalytic Institutes. Changing the Conversation. Sponsored by 10 psychoanalytic institutes: Fordham School of Law, New York.

Discussant: University Forum: Racism in America, Part 3, American Psychoanalytic Association: National Meeting: New York.

Consultant to Case Presenter: Black Psychoanalyst Speak 3 Conference: Beyond Borders and Boundaries. The New School for Social Research. New York, NY.

Discussant: Slavery in Effect: What is the Lifeline of Mass incarceration? 2018 Annual Conference of the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Presenter: A Conversation on Trauma and Race. Annual Conference for the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society- 2018. Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Keynote: Black Children in the Eye of the Storm: 38^th Annual Spring Meeting, Division of Psychoanalysis {39} Generations – Ghosts & Guardians, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Working across Racial Lines: with Warren Spielberg. Ridge/ View Institute Behavioral Health Care: Smyrna, Georgia

Workshop Leader: Trauma, Unconscious Phantasy and Reparation: A Clinical reflection from Freud to Klein: Contemporary Freudian Society, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research, UPMS, and the Sigmund Freud Institute-Stuart. New York Psychoanalytic Society, NY.

Chair: African Americans and Psychoanalysis: What’s Going On (and how can we talk about it )? Presenters – Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D., Dionne R. Powell, MD., , Beverly Stoute, MD. & Anton Hart, Ph.D. American Psychoanalytic Association.. -National Meeting, New York.

Discussant: Artist/Scholar-In-Residence 3: Volney Gay, Ph.D. On the Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of American Slavery. American Psychoanalytic Association- National Meeting, New York.

Honors and Accomplishments

1989 Certificate of Appreciation: For outstanding and dedicated service to the East New York, Brooklyn Community. Presented by the John F, Kennedy Regular Democratic Club

1999 Certificate of Appreciation: The Clinical Division of the New York State Psychological Association for providing exceptional continuing education at the Turn of the Century Conference, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York.

2002 Recipient of the Kurt Lewin Award: The Division of Social Issues and Cross Cultural Psychology of the New York State Psychological Association for outstanding contributions to psychology.

2002 Community Service Award: For contributions and commitment to mental health needs of the Central Brooklyn Community, from the Kwanzaa Collective of Brooklyn, New York.

2002 Honored: for leadership and Commitment to the residents of Northeast Brooklyn by the State Committee Member District Leader, 54^th. Assembly District.

2014 Honored: as founding editor of JICAP at the William Allyson White Institute by the Executive Board of Directors.

2015 Honored: for outstanding contribution to the psychological knowledge base on the development and treatment of Black boys and adolescents. Division of Neuropsychology, Pediatric Neurology Committee of the New York State Psychological Association