Racial Trauma Education:
Strategies for Healing
Ethical Decision Making When Assessing and Treating Racial Trauma
Ethical Decision Making When Assessing and Treating Racial Trauma
Earn 6 Ethics CEs.
This is an approved program by the National Board of Certified Counselors
Date and Time:
Friday, August 25: 9am to 4:30pm
Two 15-minute breaks
One 45-minute lunch break
Training Overview
Training Overview
The CE training led by psychologists, Drs. Daphne Fatter and Lillian Gibson, will provide mental health professionals with a practical framework to confidently assess and treat racial trauma. The importance of recognizing both the likenesses and dissimilarities of clients’ and clinicians’ worldviews, race, and ethnicity within the context of treatment will be explained with the use of several studied identity models. Attendees will learn how to apply culturally-specific approaches when exploring clients’ trauma experiences and ways to implement client-centered interventions. The latter part of the program will focus on multicultural guidelines and ethical standards from a de-colonized perspective while exploring race socialization and relational dynamics to help clinicians better serve BIPOC clients.
The CE program will use case vignettes to guide the training and demonstrate common clinical mistakes that can be made when cultural considerations are not utilized to aid in ethical decision making due to color blindness. Aspects of the training will focus on components of white supremacy culture and ways internalized ‘whiteness’ can unknowingly show up in clinical settings to increase every clinician’s cultural attunement. Practical ways to discuss racial identity with all clients and how to conduct a therapeutic repair following a relational rupture will also be discussed. Participants will leave the CE training with a clear understanding of racial trauma, an awareness of racial trauma assessment options, the biopsychosocial impacts of trauma, symptom tracking measures to guide treatment, clinical pitfalls to avoid, steps to strengthen the therapeutic alliance with clients, how to avoid committing microaggression against BIPOC clients, and a list of useful treatment interventions to decrease the effects of racial trauma.
At the end of this CE training, participants will be able to:
At the end of this CE training, participants will be able to:
1. Analyze and discuss trauma diagnostic criteria as it relates to the DMS-5-TR.
2. Utilize the Biopsychosocial Model framework to guide assessment steps and treatment of racial trauma.
3. Identify social justice factors that influence generational trauma and exacerbate racial trauma symptomology.
4. Identify client centered strategies to develop a racial trauma treatment plan.
5. Formulate cultural competencies in the assessment and treatment of racial trauma.
6. Apply 3 practical ways to discuss racial identity with clients.
7. Describe how to conduct a repair when a relational rupture has occurred.
8. Explain specific ways to set up therapeutic relationship contracts when processing racial traumas.
9. Analyze one’s style of approaching cultural and racial issues for treatment planning.
10. Utilize ethical decision making steps when directly addressing overtly racist comments, racial stereotypes and microaggressions with clients.
Agenda
Agenda
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Racial Trauma and the DSM-TR (Dr. Lillian Gibson, Presenter)
-Discuss diagnostic criteria for PTSD per the DSM-5, and consideration to diagnose trauma secondary to a race-based stressor(s). Direct trauma and vicarious trauma will be presented with respect to case conceptualization while noting social justice issues. -Identify helpful trauma assessment measures to use at the outset of treatment along with assessments that may be utilized at any point during counseling services. -Explore trauma in relation to the body with the use of a biopsychosocial framework while also considering the Diathesis-Stress Model when assessing trauma.
15 minute break
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Ethics, Assessment and Treatment (Dr. Lillian Gibson, Presenter)
-Variables that influence racial trauma assessment and treatment will be presented: worldviews, social justice issues, culture, identity, language, and generational trauma. -Culturally sensitive treatment implications for clinicians will be outlined to cautiously guide ethical decision making when developing racial trauma treatment plans. -The pros and cons of evidenced based psychotherapies will be discussed. Treatment overviews will include the following: Psychoeducation, Mindfulness, Prolonged Exposure, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia, and Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for Nightmares.
12:15pm to 1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Ethical Standards & Race Socialization (Dr. Daphne Fatter, Presenter)
-Identify ethical standards that dictate the need for introspection of one’s own race socialization. -Race Socialization and qualities of white supremacy culture. -Identify one’s own social location through an experiential exercise. - Dr. Ken Hardy’s The Privilege and Subjugated Task (PAST) Model and applying it in the real world. - Ways internalized whiteness and racialized dynamics can show up in clinical settings including microaggressions.
15 minute break
2:45 PM - 4:15 PM Ethical Decision-Making & Multicultural Competency in Session (Dr. Daphne Fatter, Presenter)
- Identify ethical standards that dictate the need for introspection of one’s own race socialization. - Race Socialization and qualities of white supremacy culture. - Identify one’s own social location through an experiential exercise. - Dr. Ken Hardy’s The Privilege and Subjugated Task (PAST) Model and applying it in the real world. - Ways internalized whiteness and racialized dynamics can show up in clinical settings including microaggressions.