(WC - 058415 - GIBSON - 2025) Racial Trauma and Minority Stress: The Culturally Competent Clinician's Guide to Assessment

Course overview

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 will 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. Do not miss this chance to bring healing change to those facing the trauma of racism.