Full Course Description

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!

Program Information

Objectives

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

Outline

Racial Trauma Assessment:

Start the Conversation and Uncover the Trauma of Racism
How to start the conversation
Race-related traumas and DSM-5 criteria
Validated measures for racial trauma
Assessing related cultural constructs
Clinical Interview Assessment tool
UConn Racial/Ethnic Stress & Trauma Survey

Clinical Techniques:
Practical Interventions for Addressing Racial Trauma in Treatment

Culturally-informed case conceptualizations
How to validate experiences of oppression
Identify your clients’ strengths and supports
Strategies to build ethnic and racial pride
Adapting validated PTSD treatments
5 techniques to help clients of color cope with stress
Group treatment for race-based trauma
Research and limitations

Growth as a Therapist:
Become More Comfortable Working with Issues Related to Race

Personal growth questions answered
What can well-intentioned people do about racism
How to become more comfortable talking about issues related to race
Guidance for clinicians of color
Homework exercises

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Physicians
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Nurses

Copyright : 08/27/2020

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.

Program Information

Objectives

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

Outline

How Client Identity and Systemic Dynamics Impact Assessment and Treatment

Social class, race, ethnicity, poverty and religion
Gender identity and sexuality
Myths, oppression, stereotypes and microaggressions
Power dynamics of counseling that can threaten minority groups
How clinician’s values and biases influence therapeutic outcomes
Culturally competent assessment techniques
Research implications and limitations

Ethics and the Equal Treatment of Clients

Obligations to challenge social injustice
Respecting the inherent dignity and worth of the person
Valuing the importance of human relationships

Clinical Strategies: That Meet Clients Where They Are: Proven Approaches for Greater Empathy and Effectiveness

How to understand clients within their social and cultural environments
Strategies to recognize your:
- Inherent biases
- Histories and generational influences
Self-assessment – identify personal values that can influence therapeutic outcomes
Techniques to work with inter-generational and historical trauma
Crisis intervention strategies

Be a Change Agent: How to Advocate for Your Clients Individually, Communally, and Globally

Should clinicians hold a neutral position?
Strategies to reduce barriers to accessing mental health treatment
Overcome cultural shame surrounding mental health issues
Tips for working with racial stress and trauma
Connect clients to resources, agencies and funding
Intervention at the system level

Case Scenarios

32 year-old Latino female with PTSD
46 year-old woman originally from Pakistan with depression
38 year-old Native American male with suicidal ideation and substance abuse issues
30 year-old Latino male with HIV referred for case management services
18 year-old Asian American female with eating disorders

Target Audience

Social Workers
Counselors
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Therapists
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/18/2019

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.

Program Information

Objectives

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

Outline

Racialized Trauma

Myth of race
Historical trauma
White body supremacy
HIPP theory (historical, inter-generational, persistent institutional, personal)

How the body carries racialized trauma

Recognizing trauma in the body

Resilience and community in healing

Building a container
Repetition, Consistency, Practice
Strategies for healing

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 10/15/2020

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

Program Information

Objectives

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.
Assess specific risks and exposures immigrants face before and after entering the U.S. and how they can impact mental health.
Develop culturally sensitive treatment plans for working with immigrant populations that account for differences in languages, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other factors.
Apply concrete and feasible strategies for assisting immigrant clients with advocacy, health and other direct service needs.
Utilize culturally sensitive coping skills exercises and psychoeducation to reduce fear and anxiety.
Apply trauma-informed practices from play therapy and sandtray therapy to assist immigrant children and families in telling their story.

Outline

Keys to Cultural Humility

What is cultural humility – and how to make it work for you
Cultural competency vs. cultural humility
The necessity for cultural humility and cultural attunement
Exercises for developing cultural humility

The “Journey Story” for Foreign Nationals & Immigrants

Discern between varying diverse immigrant experiences.
Risk assessment of foreign nationals and immigrants
How to tell your story when it’s illegal, violent or misunderstood
Tactical tools for addressing client trauma: “Telling My Story”

Appraising Unique Challenges of Foreign Nationals

Understanding why some clients live in constant fear
Deportation concerns and resources to address client needs
Assessing needs related to family separations

Trauma-Informed Interventions for Foreign Nationals

Processing experiences of rape, war, violence of the past
Living with the fear of deportation and violence
Rewriting the client narrative
Psychoeducation & Coping skills exercises

Practical Tools for Advocacy, Basic Needs and Direct Services

Assess why immigrants are vulnerable to increased risk for negative outcomes
“Essential Worker” challenges
Providing psychoeducation on medical and health needs
How to help access advocacy & basic needs information
Understanding food insecurity, shelter, health and other direct service needs

Culturally Sensitive Treatment Plans

Assessment tools for immigrant PTSD
Appraising racism and discrimination in relationships, family, work and community
Creating clinician-client collaboration content
Adopting language & acculturation methods
Resilience, social support & specific coping mechanisms

Trauma-Informed Interventions for Children

Play Therapy for retelling their story/narrative
Differences in Play Therapy for vulnerable populations
Sandtray Therapy for racism, discrimination, genograms
Tools for building immediate & lifelong resilience

Interventions for the Family Unit

Activities, Family Skills’ building
How to honor past experiences and rebuild the Family Narrative

Research, Treatment Risks and Limitations

Target Audience

Social Workers
Counselors
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Educators
Nurses

Boundaries in Clinical Practice: Top Ethical Challenges

Program Information

Objectives

Determine how the code of ethics applies to boundary setting in clinical practice.
Evaluate and examine the common ethical issues therapists face in clinical practice.
Hypothesize how the therapist role is a gatekeeper for the profession.
Determine how to use ethical decision making in clinical practice.
Assess the impact counselor wellness has on boundary setting in clinical practice.
Analyze the barriers and benefits of providing telemental health in clinical practice.

Outline

SETTING THE STAGE FOR BEST PRACTICES

Having a Code of Ethics to Follow
Boundary Contexts and Why They Matter
Setting up a Peer Group to Seek Counsel for Ethical Dilemmas
The “Always Do No Harm to Your Clients” Rule

TOP BOUNDARY CHALLENGES AND ETHICAL TRAPS

Self-Disclosure – A Slippery Slope
Giving & Receiving Gifts
Physical Contact & Proximity in Session
Language Usage in Session
Contact Outside of Sessions
Minors & Parents
Handling Clients Who Lack Boundary Skills

TECHNOLOGY AND BOUNDARIES

Social Media – How to Avoid Ethical Issues
Email, Texting, & Phone Call Boundary Challenges
Telehealth and the Impact on Boundaries

PRIVATE PRACTICE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS & GRAY AREAS

Impact of Isolation on Boundaries
Why Private Practice Heightens All Boundary Concerns
Policies & Procedures that Can Reduce Ethical Boundary Issues

DUAL RELATIONSHIPS (FRIENDS, FAMILY, STUDENTS, EMPLOYEES, BUSINESS, ACQUAINTANCE)

Developing a Strategy for Dual Relationships
Evaluate Your Ability to Handle the Dual Relationship at Hand
Creating a Proper Treatment Plan that Assists with Boundary Concerns
Top Mistakes Clinicians Make Regarding Dual Relationships

FINANCIAL & BUSINESS – NAVIGATING BOUNDARY ISSUES

Self-Referral Policies & Procedures
Collection Process for Nonpayment of fees
Fee Establishing & Transparency Guidelines
Sliding Scales & Bartering
Confidentiality & Privacy Concerns

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychotherapists
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Case Managers
Nurses
Physicians
Other Mental Health Professionals