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Healing Interpersonal & Racial Trauma: Integrating Racial Socialization into
TF-CBT for Black Youth & Families

 

 

 

This training was presented on
November 29, 2023

 

 

TRAINING MATERIALS & RESOURCES:

Click the button below to access the materials and resources from this training, including:

  • Recording
  • Presentation Deck (full-size slides)
  • Notetaking Slides (3/page)
  • Healing Interpersonal and Racial Trauma Workshop Google Drive
  • Healing Interpersonal and Racial Trauma: Integrating Racial Socialization into TF-CBT for African American Youth. Child Maltreatment, 2 6(1), 17-27. Metzger, I., Anderson, R., Are, F., & Ritchwood, T. (2020).
  • Black Moms Matter: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Barriers to Service Utilization at a Children’s Advocacy Center Following Childhood Abuse. Child Maltreatment. Metzger, I., Moreland, A., Garrett, R., Quiones, K., Spivey, B., Hamilton, J., & Lopez, C. M. (2023).
  • Integrating Trauma-Focused CBT and Racial Socialization for Black Youth and Families: An Implementation Manual. Pittsburgh, PA: Allegheny Health Network. Metzger, I. W., Dandridge, A., Cohen, J. A., & Mannarino, A. P. (2023). 
  • First Approach Skills Training (FAST) Program (Seattle Children’s)
  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training at MUSC
  • Dr. Isha Metzger’s Website
    • Racial Trauma Trainings
    • CARE Package for Racial Healing
    • Public Health Campaign
    • Racial Trauma Guide
    • Resources for parents, caregivers, researchers, and clinicians
    • Black & EMPOWERED Podcast

Training Materials & Resources

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TRAINING DETAILS:

Black families utilize racial socialization to negate the negative consequences of interpersonal (e.g., physical abuse) and racial stressors (e.g., witnessing police brutality in the media, microaggressions). This webinar provides an overview of interpersonal and racial trauma and racial socialization; presents research on systemic, organizational, client, and provider barriers and facilitators to mental health service utilization; and discusses strategies clinicians can PRACTICE (Psychoeducation, Relaxation, Affect identification and modulation, Cognitive restructuring, Trauma narrative, In-vivo exposure, Conjoint parent-child sessions, Enhancing safety) to integrate racial socialization into treatment to help Black youth and families access and engage in treatment while empowering them to heal from experiences with interpersonal and racial stress and trauma.

 

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Identify three ways that racial socialization and interpersonal and racial stress and trauma impact development for Black youth;
  • Describe four barriers and facilitators to service utilization for Black youth and families;
  • Contribute to multidisciplinary teams to assist in making culturally informed decisions pertaining to engagement, assessment, and treatment of Black youth;
  • Explain their personal identity to clients to build rapport and trust and to serve as an ally and advocate in the therapeutic space; and
  • List four applied strategies for integrating racial socialization into clinical care in a culturally affirming and validating manner
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Who should attend: The first 1.5 hours of this webinar will be relevant for all staff of family resource center (FRCs), child abuse prevention councils (CAPCs), community-based organizations, and other child- and family-serving systems. The second 1.5 hours of the webinar will be most relevant for therapists/practitioners who are providing direct psychological services (CBT, TF-CBT) to Black youth and families. 

 

Important Training Information:

  • This is a webinar-style training. This means that you will not be on camera and will not be able to see other learners. This training will not include breakout rooms. Opportunities to interact with the presenter(s) and other participants will be included.
  • This training will be recorded. A pre-recorded version of this webinar will be available to registered learners within 2 days of the training.
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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT INFORMATION: 

This course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Chadwick Center For Children and Families, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego (Provider #75651) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Chadwick Center For Children and Families, Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Please click here for additional information about continuing education credit.

 

MEET THE SPEAKER

Dr. Isha W. Metzger is the Founder of Cultural Concepts, LLC, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University, Adjunct and Graduate faculty at the University of Georgia, and Visiting Research Faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Dr. Metzger earned her PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina, completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, and received postdoctoral training at both the National Crime Victims Center and Yale University.

As Director of The EMPOWER Lab at GSU, Dr. Metzger focuses on reducing mental health disparities through “Engaging Minorities in Prevention, Outreach, Wellness, Education, & Research.” Dr. Metzger’s systematic research program is aimed at healing culturally specific risk factors like racial discrimination through utilizing protective factors like racial socialization to improve cognitive and behavioral outcomes for Black clients receiving evidence-based services for interpersonal and racial stress and trauma in “real world” settings.

As a licensed clinical psychologist and trainer for Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dr. Metzger offers instruction, supervision, training, and consultation to students, practitioners, client-facing staff, and organizations on the culturally sensitive delivery of evidence-based treatments for underserved individuals seeking mental health treatment for a range of problems including anxiety, depression, school disengagement and behavioral difficulties, PTSD, racial trauma, and substance misuse. Dr. Metzger is an advocate for Black youth and families, and she is personally and professionally committed to amplify and utilize the individual and family strengths of Black youth to heal and thrive in the face of racism.

 

 

ISHA METZGER, PhD

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Founder, Cultural Concepts, LLC

Asst. Professor of Psychology, Georgia State University