Microtraumas and the African American Client

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Candice Richardson Dickens, LCPC-S, LCADC-S, CCTP Related seminars and products

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Candice Richardson Dickens, LCPC-S, LCADC-S, CCTP, is a hypnotherapist, Imago therapist, and owner of CRA Counseling and Consulting Agency
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Candice Richardson Dickens is the clinical director at CRA Counseling & Consulting Agency.
Non-financial: Candice Richardson Dickens an executive board member for The Board Of Professional Counselors. She is a member of the Maryland Association of Imago Therapist.

 

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Objectives

1. Identify triggers and symptoms of microtrauma, as well as how it’s processed in the brain.
2. Use mindfulness, faith-based rituals, deep breathing exercises, grounding techniques, and memory-processing activities to decrease frequency of reactivity.
3. Apply mood-regulation skills, self-talk safety scripts, and sensory techniques to enhance clients’ feelings of being in control and empowered in the presence of real or perceived danger.
4. Develop behavioural choices in dealing with anxiety over past microtraumas and current situations.

Outline

Understanding Cultural Trauma

• Fight or Flight Responses
• Learned Helplessness
• Micro- vs. Macro-traumas

DSM-5 Trauma and PTSD

• Defining and Assessing Trauma
• Witnessed or Experienced Trauma

Talking about Race

• Talking to Children about Race
• Addressing Ethnic Differences Between Therapist & Client
• Empowering through Experience Validation

Techniques for Treating Physiological Responses to Trauma

• Mindfulness
• Grounding & Tapping
• Deep Breathing Techniques
• Visualizations & Hypnosis
• Reducing Shame & Increasing Self-Affirmations

Understanding Long-Term Memory

• Implicit Memory
• Explicit Memory
  • Episodic
  • Semantic

Trauma & Neuroscience

• Polyvagal Theory
• Sympathetic and Parasympathetic responses

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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