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Information
- Faculty:
- Candice Richardson Dickens
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 4 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Mar 22, 2019
Description
African Americans regularly receive societal messages about their lack of value, powerlessness, and inability to ensure their personal safety. Perpetuated through media stories as well as common, everyday interactions, these microtraumas cause African Americans to experience a heightened sense of cortisol arousal, a pervasive feeling of doom, and a lack of trust in relation to their environment. The result is hypervigilance and intrusive exaggerated flight, fight, and freeze responses.
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
Trauma & Neuroscience
- Polyvagal Theory
- Sympathetic and Parasympathetic responses
Physiological Impact of Trauma on African Americans Faculty
Candice Richardson Dickens, LCPC-S, LCADC-S, CCTP, is a hypnotherapist, Imago therapist, and owner of CRA Counseling and Consulting Agency.
