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Racial Trauma: Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Trauma Rooted in Racism

 

The trauma of racism is real, and it leaves many clients with the classic symptoms of PTSD.

Join racial trauma expert Dr. Monnica Williams and change the way you work with racism and race-based experiences in therapy as she gives you the tools you need to help clients name, express, and heal from racial trauma!!

Whether you’ve never felt the traumatic wounds of racism, or have experienced racial trauma firsthand, this program will empower you to validate your clients’ pain and offer real clinical solutions.

This fiercely honest 3-hour training will provide you with: 

  • Direction on how you can be more comfortable talking about issues related to racism in therapy 
  • Guidance for clinicians of color who’ve experienced feelings of oppression and discrimination 
  • Interview protocols to identify deep seated wounds from daily assaults on dignity 
  • DSM-5 framework guidance for race-based stress and trauma 
  • Skills and interventions to properly address racial trauma in a clinical setting 

Don’t let racial trauma go unidentified or risk clients failing to fully recover because you don’t have the clinical guidance you need!  

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Objectives

  1. Assess the clinical implications of racial experiences leading to trauma symptomology.
  2. Evaluate how historical, cultural, and individual trauma may or may not fit into a DSM-5 framework.
  3. Employ interventions that address traumatic experiences with racism in trauma treatment sessions.

Copyright : 27/08/2020

Social Justice, Ethics and Multicultural Issues for Mental Health Professionals: Clinical Strategies for Inclusivity, Empowerment and Improved Treatment Outcomes

 

Effective treatment focuses on the whole person. The thoughts, behaviors and sufferings of your clients are intimately connected to the social and cultural context in which they live.

Without seeing your clients in their entirety, you could fail to recognize the unique challenges, stressors, barriers and burdens that can lie at the heart of their mental health issues.

But even therapists can feel uncomfortable with conversations surrounding racial, cultural, sexual, economic and religious issues. And cultural stigmas and distrust born from societal power dynamics can cause some clients to hold back in therapy or leave treatment early.

This inspiring recording will open your eyes to the struggles of disenfranchised or marginalized populations, and give you practical and innovative techniques so you can comfortably and successfully work with them in treatment.

You’ll be able to more capably assess clients, avoid cultural misunderstandings that can harm the therapeutic alliance, and gain the trust you need to achieve truly transformative results.

It’s time to be the change you wish to see.

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Objectives

  1. Argue how social class and race can impact clinical assessment and treatment of mental health issues.
  2. Conclude how the values and biases of clinicians can influence treatment and therapeutic outcomes.
  3. Appraise how mental health clinicians can better understand clients within their social and cultural environments to avoid misunderstanding that can harm the therapeutic alliance.
  4. Demonstrate how clinicians can more comfortably and capably discuss issues surrounding race and economic issues that clients can be reluctant to talk about.
  5. Determine how clinicians can help clients overcome cultural shame for improved engagement in mental health treatment.
  6. Devise two ways clinicians can reduce barriers to mental health treatment that face minority groups and disenfranchised people. 

Copyright : 18/10/2019

How the Body Carries Racialized Trauma: A Therapeutic Pathway to Resilience & Healing

 

WE CAN’T HELP OURSELVES EVEN BEGIN TO HEAL RACIALIZED TRAUMA IF WE DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT EVEN EXISTS. Our society needs to break down systems and institutions that perpetuate the concept of white body supremacy and recognize how the myth of race and historical trauma is deeply ingrained into our culture.

Through a somatic-body approach that negotiates the common historical and perpetual myths that Black bodies, Native bodies, and other bodies of color are inherently deviant and that the white body is the standard of humanness, Resmaa helps build an understanding of racialized trauma so that we can move from our racialized lens to a cultural lens – and move further to a resourced energy lens of healing. Learn how to recognize trauma in the body, how to build a cultural container to heal, and how to begin practicing resourced resilience. These tools can help us recognize body trauma born out of racism and white body supremacy in our own body and our communities and to start to heal.

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Objectives

  1. Determine the stress signs and symptoms of trauma.
  2. Evaluate the basics of the HIPP theory (historical, inter-generational, persistent institutional, personal) of racialized trauma.
  3. Assess the basics of at least one resourcing technique.
  4. Investigate the many dimensions associated with how the body carries racialized trauma.

Copyright : 15/10/2020

Trauma-Informed Responses to Racial Injustice: Interventions for Immigrant, Diverse or Vulnerable Populations

Do these racially-charged times leave you and your clients asking: Am I safe? Do I belong? Is your heightened sensitivity toward the racially-charged social and political climate holding you back from robustly treating your clients struggling with racial injustice?

Gain the confidence, cultural competency and trauma interventions to empower your most vulnerable clients! Watch Dr. Charissa D. Pizarro a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of clinical experience working with diverse clinical populations on trauma and adjustment disorders in addition to extensive research and policy experience on immigration.

You will gain immeasurable insight from Dr. Pizarro on how to address diverse populations AND practical, step-by-step recommendations and resources in providing tactical solutions for your clients facing deportation, violence, family separation, or meeting their basic needs. Upon completing of this seminar, you will enhance your toolbox with:

  • Cultural Humility exercises to better connect with existing and potential clients
  • Culturally Sensitive Treatment plans that address racism and discrimination within the family, at work or school, in the community and elsewhere
  • Tactical tools to help your clients access advocacy, basic needs, direct service needs such as food, shelter and healthcare.
  • Resilience interventions for diverse children and adult populations

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Objectives

  1. Conduct a self-appraisal of cultural competence and cultural humility to raise self-awareness about your own values, biases and privileges and how they can affect your clinical work.
  2. Assess specific risks and exposures immigrants face before and after entering the U.S. and how they can impact mental health.
  3. Develop culturally sensitive treatment plans for working with immigrant populations that account for differences in languages, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other factors.
  4. Apply concrete and feasible strategies for assisting immigrant clients with advocacy, health and other direct service needs.
  5. Utilize culturally sensitive coping skills exercises and psychoeducation to reduce fear and anxiety.
  6. Apply trauma-informed practices from play therapy and sandtray therapy to assist immigrant children and families in telling their story.

Copyright : 18/05/2021

Boundaries in Clinical Practice: Top Ethical Challenges

Boundary issues present some of the largest challenges you’ll face as a clinician. How you communicate and interact can be interpreted differently by each client. Your professional liability is at risk by not following clear guidelines and best practices when it comes to boundaries.

This recording will provide you with answers to the top challenges you face. You’ll get guidance on the following ethical boundary pitfalls:

  • Social Media
  • Email & Text
  • Self-Disclosure
  • Gifts & Receiving Gifts
  • Contact Outside of Session
  • Dual Relationships
  • Financial & Business Boundaries

Avoid ethical entanglements that risk your professional liability!

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Objectives

  1. Analyze how following a code of ethics applies to boundary setting in clinical practice.
  2. Evaluate the unique boundary issues that arise in private practice and how to effectively handle them.
  3. Employ best practices for avoiding boundary issues related to self-referral policies and procedures.
  4. Appraise ethical dilemmas related to self-disclosure and language usage in session.
  5. Assess the ethical challenges that technology poses in a clinical setting.
  6. Establish ethical guidelines to effectively handle possible dual relationships with clients in clinical practice.

Copyright : 26/02/2020

Diversity in Clinical Practice

Too often, therapists and other helping professionals feel paralyzed by the fear that they don’t know enough about other cultural groups to counsel clients different than themselves. In his debut book, Diversity in Clinical Practice, Lambers Fisher sets out to mitigate these fears by providing a framework for professionals to better understand the experiences of cultural groups with whom they are not personally or professionally familiar.

With his encouraging and non-shaming approach, Lambers will challenge you to learn more about other cultures, accept what you do not yet know in the process, and utilize strategies that can help you become an increasingly culturally competent professional. Beyond ethnicity, you will explore issues of age, gender, sexuality, religion, acculturation, and social justice, as well as identify opportunities to strengthen your own cultural self-awareness.

Applicable for a wide range of professionals – including counsellors, religious leaders, occupational therapists, educators, coaches, physical therapists, and nurses – the practical and impactful strategies in this book will allow you to:

  • Journal about your cultural competency journey
  • Reduce cultural offences and repair damaged relationships
  • Avoid ethical dilemmas
  • Build rapport with diverse clients
  • Understand various experiences of diverse people through case examples
  • Help clients of any culture make meaningful life changes