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Live Webinar

Racial Trauma and Minority Stress: The Culturally Competent Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment


Speaker:
Lillian Gibson, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
Product Code:
LWC058415
Brochure Code:
PWZ94627
Media Type:
Live Webinar

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Description

Violent and unjust deaths televised on 24-hour loops. The terrifying stress of traffic stops. Walking into a store and being followed by a clerk.

Race-based stressors can leave BIPOC clients overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, hopelessness and emotional exhaustion. The raw pain and trauma of each experience adding another excruciating burden they must carry.

Without addressing race-based issues at the heart of their trauma, you’ll fail to move clients facing the distress of daily assaults on their dignity toward greater hope and healing.

But where do you start?

Lillian Gibson, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has spent her career working to enhance the lives of people in marginalized groups.

In this one-day training, Dr. Gibson will give you the tools and guidance you need to better align with your clients race-based experiences, strengthen the therapeutic alliance and more capably treat clients with trauma rooted in racism.

Join her and discover how you can:

  • Identify your clinical blind spots with multicultural clientele
  • Assess for trauma symptomology and factors that influence minority stress
  • Conceptualize cases when race-based stressors are present
  • Avoid clinical missteps that can damage the therapeutic alliance
  • Develop a racial trauma treatment plan and apply client-centered strategies

PLUS this program includes scripts, interactive exercises and case studies to help you more comfortably and capably discuss race related matters in therapy.

Don’t miss this chance to bring healing change to those facing the trauma of racism.

Register today!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.

Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Cultural Competency

This activity qualifies for 6.25 hours of cultural competency instruction. If cultural competency is not specified within your licensing board's approval statement below, please contact your board to determine the applicability and amount of cultural competency allowed.


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2023 - January 27, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 Cultural Competency continuing education credits.

 

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance.  Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 380 continuing education minutes as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 


US National Boards - Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 



Speaker

Lillian Gibson, PhD's Profile

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Lillian Gibson, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with clients facing race-based traumas, minority stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, insomnia, nightmares, and chronic medical conditions.

Dr. Gibson is a highly recommended speaker, consultant, and clinician who is frequently engaged by non-profit agencies, community-based programs, and mental health agencies to inform and train their staff on culture-affirming best practices for both employees and patients.

Experienced in a variety of settings including inpatient mental health centers, outpatient behavioral care services, and primary care settings, Dr. Gibson’s professional footprints include places such as Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Quality Education for Minorities Network. Dr. Gibson has also conducted international research in Johannesburg, South Africa.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Lillian Gibson maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as an independent consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lillian Gibson has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


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Objectives

  1. Investigate core elements of cultural competency for mental health professionals.
  2. Formulate a detailed conceptualization of a case with race-based stressors.
  3. Analyze trauma diagnostic criteria and the impact of race-based stressors.
  4. Determine how vicarious trauma impacts clients’ emotional functioning.
  5. Employ the biopsychosocial model framework to guide assessment steps and treatment of trauma stemming from racism and discrimination.
  6. Analyze factors that influence generational trauma and exacerbate racial trauma symptomology.

Outline

Cultural Competency Markers for Mental Health Professionals
  • Core elements of cultural competency within mental health
  • Bidirectional relationship between cultural humility and cultural competency
  • Cultural attunement variables
  • Honoring of worldviews, identity, language, customs
Case Conceptualization Strategies When Race-Based Stressors are Present
  • Essential conceptualization components to assess cases
  • Treatment planning and case conceptualization factors
  • Errors often seen within poor case formulations
  • Enhancement of case conceptualization processes when cultural competency is present
Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD per the DSM-5™
  • Considerations to diagnose trauma secondary to a race-based stressor(s)
  • Exploration of direct trauma in relation to a PTSD diagnosis
  • Generational trauma factors linked to racebased stressor(s)
  • Exploration of vicarious trauma in relation to a PTSD diagnosis
  • Minority stress features that impact quality of life factors
Racial Trauma Symptomology: Identifying with Biopsychosocial Framework References
  • The mind and body trauma connection
  • Diathesis-Stress Model in relation to trauma
  • Recognizing physiological signs of trauma
  • Long-term impacts of chronic stress stored in the body
  • Outline of useful trauma measures that may be utilized
  • Listing of symptom monitoring measures
  • Client and therapist match measures
Racial Trauma Treatment: Effective Interventions and Multimodal Framework
  • Applicable options for treatment
  • Scripts to discuss racial trauma, minority stress and explore client/therapist dynamics
  • Culturally sensitive treatment implications
  • Multimodal framework for treatment:
  • Distressed sleep interventions: CBT for insomnia and imagery rehearsal for nightmares
  • Chronic stress: CBT and mindfulness approaches
  • Value-based living: usefulness of ACT tenents
  • Trauma-focused treatment using prolonged exposure
  • Assertive communication strategies from interpersonal psychotherapy
  • Safeguards to help the efficacy of racial trauma treatment(s)
  • Limitations of racial trauma treatments
  • Risks associated with administering evidence-based psychotherapies for racial trauma

Target Audience

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

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