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ACE Foundation Programs
The Moderator for the entirety of the program will be Sandra Cambridge, LCSW, RDT
Session 1
THE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SYSTEMIC RACISM, POWER, PRIVILEGE AND CULTURE FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS IN WORKING WITH CLIENTS
With the recent social upheaval and turmoil over the past ten months related to the Black Lives Matter movement, following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery (amongst others), and the social inequities exposed by the COVID19 pandemic disproportionally affecting Black, Brown, and poor urban communities, our society’s consciousness has been raised to forces of power, privilege, cultural difference, social hierarchies, oppression, and discrimination, that have always been present, to a level that has not been seen since the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
This context gives mental health providers a special opportunity to examine these powerful and ubiquitous social and cultural forces as they relate to the theoretical underpinnings and practice of psychotherapy, understanding ourselves and our clients as racial/cultural beings, and providing multiculturally competent counseling services to our clients. The overall goal of this webinar is to provide mental health providers with relevant knowledge of systemic sociocultural forces that affect their understanding of themselves, their clients, and how they provide services to their clients; and to help them develop new perspectives and skills in providing multiculturally competent services to their clients.
To this end, this webinar will: a.) define and explore systemic racism and differentiate it from individual thoughts, affect, and behaviors that result in prejudice and discrimination; b.) examine power and privilege (or the lack there of) related to social hierarchies around racial/cultural group memberships and how these phenomena may affect how clinicians see, understand, and provide services to their clients, and affect their clients’ psychological realities and functioning; and c.) assist participants in examining themselves as racial/cultural beings as well as how they may benefit (or not) from systemic racism (or other systemic forms of oppression) and develop/generate new perspectives and skills to address these systemic sociocultural forces in working with their clients.
Session 2
REFLECTIONS ON RACE/RACISM CONTENT IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
The presenting complaints of African American patients and People of Color rarely indicate that they are seeking psychotherapy to better manage some pressing problem with systemic racism. There is a complex interaction between what is experienced in the external world and how this finds expression in the internal world of our clients. Content related to race/racism can emerge at any stage of treatment. This presentation will reflect on how issues of race/racism that emerge and are cathected in the intra psychic lives of our clients are consistent with, and extend, our emerging understanding of their psychodynamics. Case illustrations will be drawn from both individual and combined individual/group treatment.
Session 3
IMPLICIT RACIAL ASSOCIATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE
Research using the Implicit Association Test (IAT, 2021) or subliminal priming suggests most Americans display anti-Black implicit bias. Phelps et al. (2000) and Lieberman et al. (2005) trace implicit bias to amygdala activation associated with fear conditioning. It may be culturally shared and reinforced through stereotype-consistent media misrepresentations of ‘Black crime’ (Craemer, 2011; Dixon, 2006; 2008; 2017; Dixon & Linz, 2000a; 2000b). Dovidio et al. (1997) show that implicit bias can lead to awkward automatic body language, perceived by Black conversation partners as ‘racist.’ Attempts at reducing implicit bias can be successful over the short-term (e.g., Patané et al. 2020) but do not persist over the long term (FitzGerald et al., 2019; Lai et al., 2016). However, pro-Black implicit identification may be able to overwrite implicit bias among some white respondents leading to pro-Black attitudes (Craemer, 2014). However, among Black respondents, pro-Black implicit identification may exacerbate “stereotype threat” leading to underperformance (Craemer & Orey, 2017). Macan and Merritt (2011) observe stereotype threat also among whites in interracial situations. In summary, anti-Black implicit bias poses a threat to therapy in interracial settings, while pro-Black implicit identification may provide opportunity.
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The Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0028; licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0045; licensed psychoanalysts #P-0017; licensed psychologists #PSY-0121; licensed social workers #SW-0056; and licensed creative art therapists #CAT-0120.
Out-of-state providers are welcome to request a certificate upon completion of the presentation evaluation but must check with their own state licensing boards to inquire about whether or not the certificate is recognized as transferrable for CEs in their state’s jurisdiction.
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Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists and mental health counselors.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Moderator:
Sandra Cambridge, LCSW, RDT has over 20 years of clinical experience, having worked in biopsychosocial, medical, and psychiatric settings. She received her Masters in Social Work from Wurzweiler Yeshiva University, and went on to pursue post graduate studies at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapies, earning a certificate in psychoanalytic informed psychotherapy. She also trained as a Drama Therapist at the Institute for the Arts in psychotherapy, and is a member of the National Association for Drama Therapy. After completing a training at Columbia University, she used her training to instruct many students in field placement. Sandra has developed a keen interest in advocating for racial equality in both her personal and work lives, and has recently, during her sabbatical, undertaken leadership of the BIPOC Committee; a network for Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous People of Color, which aims to provide support primarily, but not exclusively, to individuals at the beginning of their careers in Clinical Social Work.
Session 1
Dr. Jonathan Rust is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Counselor Education at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. As a faculty member in the Counselor Education program, he is responsible for training the school counseling and mental health counseling students. Relevant courses he teaches include Multicultural Counseling and Group Dynamics and Counseling. He is a Certified Group Relations Consultant with the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems as well as a member of the affiliate organization the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems. Furthermore, Dr. Rust is a NYS licensed psychologist and a National Certified Counselor, who maintains a private practice in Poughkeepsie, NY. His areas of expertise in research, teaching, psychotherapy, and consulting include understanding how racial/cultural factors—and the societal power and privilege dynamics associated with these factors—systemically affect the psychosocial development and mental health of racially/culturally diverse groups. He has conducted training workshops on diversity and multicultural counseling for the Hudson Valley Psychological Association, the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and for Vassar College’s Counseling Service. In addition, Dr. Rust has provided consultative services to the Greenburgh Eleven Union Free School District assessing the racial/cultural attitudes and dynamics that affected the school district’s task of educating a racially/ethnically diverse student body.
Session 2
Judith C. White, LCSW, CGP, is a psychotherapist in private practice who works with individuals, couples, families and groups. Ms. White’s clinical practice and publications have focused on the intersection of psychotherapy with issues of race/ethnicity, culture, and sexuality.
Ms. White was the director of counseling at Malcolm-King Harlem College Extension.
Ms. White earned her certification in psychotherapy/psychoanalysis and analytic group therapy from Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. She has been a faculty member and supervisor in the Advanced Training Program of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services. Currently she is a faculty member and training analyst at the Harlem Family Institute.
Session 3
Thomas Craemer, Ph.D. obtained a political science doctorate in 2001 from the University of Tuebingen in his native Germany, and a PhD from Stony Brook University, New York, in 2005. He teaches at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy. His experience of growing up in post-World-War II Germany motivated is research on implicit racial attitudes and race-related policies including slavery reparations. He has used reaction time measures to tap people’s implicit racial attitudes in a number of papers, including his paper on “Implicit Closeness to Blacks, Support for Affirmative Action, Slavery Reparations, and Vote Intentions for Barack Obama in the 2008 Elections,” which received the International Society of Political Psychology’s Roberta Sigel Award in 2010. In 2014, the paper appeared in Basic and Applied Social Psychology (Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 413-424). His research on reparations has been widely cited in the media, including appearances in Full Frontal with Samantha Bee in 2019, and United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell on CNN in 2020.
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