
Tysheann Grant, Ph.D.
Clinical Faculty
Adler Community Health Services
Chicago
“Knowledge is Power”
OVERVIEW
Dr. Grant is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with more than a decade of experience providing trauma-informed care, psychological assessment, and therapy with adolescents, young adults, women, and marginalized populations. Her research interests focus on the intersections of racism and media, identity development in the African American community, and the experiences of minority graduate students.
She completed her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology, followed by an APA-accredited internship with Adler Community Health Services – Division of Teen Wellness and Opportunity (formerly the Juvenile Justice Division) and a postdoctoral residency at the San Diego Center for Children in the Residential Assessment Department, where she honed expertise in child and adolescent psychodiagnostic testing and therapy.
Dr. Grant has provided services through Youth Outreach Services, After School Matters, and The Chicago High School for the Arts. She is also trained in the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule–2 and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS
Publications
Enhancing Emotional Safety in a Graduate School Setting
Prevalence of Romantic and Sexual Student-Teacher Relationships in American High Schools
Attitudes Toward Educator-Student Sexual Relationships and Proposed Preventive Techniques
Internalized Racism, Television Consumption, and Television Casting
Enhancing Emotional Safety in the Classroom: A Pilot Project
Prevention of Romantic and Sexual Relationships Between High School Students and Teachers
Internalized Racism and Television Consumption
Can Survival Processing Override the Effects of Collaborative Inhibition on Recall
Presentations
Internalized Racism, Television Consumption, and Television Casting (poster presentation)
Enhancing Emotional Safety in the Classroom: A Pilot Project (symposium)
Attitudes Toward Educator-Student Sexual Relationships and Proposed Preventive Techniques (symposium)
Prevalence of Romantic and Sexual Student-Teacher Relationships in American High Schools (symposium)
Internalized Racism and Television Consumption (poster presentation)
Can Survival Processing Override the Effects of Collaborative Inhibition on Recall (paper presentation)
Can Survival Processing Override the Effects of Collaborative Inhibition on Recall (poster presentation)
Can Survival Processing Override the Effects of Collaborative Inhibition on Recall (poster presentation)
LEADERSHIP + COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
- 2013-Current: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated.