Description: Cultural competency and ethical decision-making are two different concepts, yet they are interconnected in our approach as culturally responsive clinicians. The understanding and application of unconscious bias awareness has the potential to provide behavioral healthcare providers with rich and … Read more
Description: Striking a balance between home and work can be challenging for everyone. Having a family member with a disability further complicates these issues. This workshop provides an overview of work-life integration issues, including the physiologic toll that caregiver stress … Read more
Description: Caregiving is both vital and stressful work that is often carried by parents and other family members, along with other service providers. In this workshop, Courtney Smith will describe the risks caregivers themselves can face when caring for individuals … Read more
Description: Members of the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning) community are at increased risk for mental health concerns, substance use, and youth homelessness. For helping professionals to competently serve LGBTQ+ clients, they must understand the language of identity, the … Read more
Description: Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers an empirically validated approach to the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related symptoms like unwanted thoughts, feelings, memories, and nightmares. Trauma survivors often work to avoid these experiences as well as trauma-related situations and cues. … Read more
Description: Individuals who experienced trauma, and especially those with complex PTSD, can become disconnected from their somatic experience, which decreases their ability to regulate internal states. A growing body of research on the psychology and neurobiology of trauma supports the … Read more
Description: Trauma work involves exposure to painful memories and emotions, including shame, grief, anger, sadness. Because exposure work holds risks of re-traumatization as well as potential escalation of negative coping behaviors, practitioners need to gauge when and how it is appropriate to proceed. In … Read more
THE FRANK DANIELS ENDOWED LECTURE Handouts: Tenets of Black Feminism | Intersecting axis | Definitions | Reference list | Workshop slides Description: Identity is a complex and multifaceted construct. In this lecture, Dr. Carmen Crosby will explore ways that the context of culture creates inherent power … Read more
Description: What does it mean to be a member of the Latinx community? This workshop encourages participants to examine cultural biases and assumptions that can contribute to treating a community of individuals as “other,” including when this stance comes from … Read more
Description: In this workshop, Tonya Armstrong will engage participants in the process of seeking clarity around our own cultural identities, as well as explore how this work is central to ethical practice with individuals with intersecting racial, ethnic, sexual, and other … Read more