Becoming a Racially Sensitive Clinician

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Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD Related seminars and products

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Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is president of the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice and clinical and organizational consultant for the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in NYC, as well as a former professor of family therapy at both Syracuse University, NY, and Drexel University, PA. He’s also the author of Racial Trauma: Clinical Strategies and Techniques for Healing Invisible Wounds, and The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness, and editor of On Becoming a Racially Sensitive Therapist: Race and Clinical Practice.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kenneth Hardy receives compensation as a Clinical and Organizational Consultant . He receives royalties as a published author. Kenneth Hardy receives a speaking honorarium and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kenneth Hardy has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Describe two strategies for identifying and managing therapist’s reactivity.
2. Employ two strategies for effectively managing the racial reactivity of clients in ways that facilitate connection instead of escalation.
3. Demonstrate how to foster constructive engagement during divisive, polarizing, and escalating cross-racial interactions.
4. Implement a technique for uncovering therapist-related hidden implicit biases that could undermine the therapeutic process.
5. Utilize strategies for enhancing racially based relational risk-taking in clinical practice.

Outline

Developing a Racial Lens

• The self as a racial being
• The hidden dimensions of race and racial identity
• Race in a relational (cross-racial) context

Addressing Race in Therapy and Beyond

• The PAST (Privilege and Subjugated Tasks) Model as an instrument of relational engagement.
• The Principles of Constructive Engagement as a pathway to effective cross-racial relational engagement
• The Validate-Challenge-Request (VCR) Model as an effective strategy for navigating difficult and toxic interactions

Self of the Therapist Exploration

• The Racial Awareness And Sensitivity Experiential Exercise tool as a mechanism for uncovering Therapist implicit bias and enhancing racial awareness and sensitivity.
• A framework for promoting Racial and Cultural Storytelling as a Self of the Therapist tool, as well as a clinical strategy.
• How to use Petite Lectures as an effective clinical technique, as well as a Self of the Therapist tool.

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Target Audience

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

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