Cultural and Historical Traumas: Invisible Barriers to Healing and Change

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Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC Related seminars and products: 4

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Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC, is an integrative psychotherapist practicing at The Center for Contextual Change. She’s the creator of the Integrative Trauma Recovery Group (ITR) a group therapy process designed specifically for adults with developmental and complex PTSD.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Anita Mandley practices at the Center for Contextual Change.
Non-financial: Anita Mandley has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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Objectives

1. Evaluate the clinical implications of clients with historical trauma to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
2. Articulate clinical interventions that acknowledge and process grief and loss connected to the client’s historical trauma.

Outline

• Acknowledgement and Awareness of The Intergenerational Impact and Memory Traces of Cultural and
• Historical Traumas on Clients and The Therapist’s Own Self
• Relevant Areas for Assessment
• Structured Model of Assessment
• Case Examples of The Clinical Implications of Traumatic Experiences in The Present

• Difference Between Bias, Prejudice and the “Isms”
• The Process to Regulate the Neurobiology of Bias
• The Benefit and Power of Providing the Resources of Witness, Protector and Comforter to Heal Intergenerational Wounds

• Studying, Listening to And Validating the Client’s Traumatic Cultural Narrative, While Listening for The Resources That Helped Them Survive
• Using the Client’s Own Survival Resources, As Well As Cultural-Specific Rituals and/or Creating New Rituals for Acknowledging and Processing the Loss and Grief Connected to Historical Traumas
• New Ways to Establish Boundaries and Self-Defense and Self-Protection

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