Healing Interpersonal and Racial Trauma: The Power of Racial Socialization in Evidence Based Practices for Black Children and Families
Join us to explore this important topic with Dr. Isha Metzger, PhD, LCP, Associate Professor at Georgia State University. Black families utilize racial socialization to negate the negative consequences of interpersonal (e.g., physical abuse) and racial (e.g., witnessing police brutality in the media, microaggressions) stressors. Community-based organizations and services exist to help children and families overcome stressors, abuse, and trauma. However, current services do not systematically consider racial stress and trauma in their understanding of youth, which impacts mental and physical health, behavioral, and academic outcomes, to name a few. This webinar provided an overview of interpersonal and racial trauma; discussed the benefit of racial socialization for Black children and families; and discussed strategies clinicians can utilize (Psychoeducation, Relaxation, Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Restructuring) to integrate racial socialization into treatment to help Black children and families access and engage in treatment while empowering them to heal from experiences with interpersonal and racial stress and trauma.
Participants of this webinar were able to:
- Identify ways that interpersonal and racial stress and trauma impact Black youth development.
- Explain the protective role of racial socialization on behavioral and mental health outcomes for Black youth.
- Describe research on barriers and facilitators to trauma treatment utilization for ethnic minority youth and families.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate racial socialization into psychoeducation, relaxation, emotion regulation, and cognitive restructuring into evidence-based treatment.
Date & Time
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
12:30pm –2:00 pm EST