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 Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma: Moving Toward Liberation |
| Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
| 3:00 PM–3:50 PM |
| Meeting Level 1; Room 102B |
| Area: DEI; Domain: Applied Research |
| Chair: Elizabeth Hughes Fong (Pepperdine University) |
| CE Instructor: Thema Bryant Davis, Ph.D. |
| Presenting Author: THEMA BRYANT DAVIS (Pepperdine) |
| Abstract: This presentation will illuminate ways the field of psychology and student services can serve communities who live with the psychological effects of racism. Insights from liberation psychology, decolonial psychology, Black psychology, and womanist psychology will be presented. This 90-minute training is for beginner and advanced clinicians, educators, and administrators, as most training programs have not offered training in addressing racial trauma. The training will encompass both theory and practical application of anti-racism therapy, teaching, and student service. The training also touches on sustainability, self-care, and community-care as clinicians may be affected by vicarious trauma when working with students/clients in the aftermath or continued exposure to racial trauma. Topics discussed will include: • The need for anti-racism therapeutic practice as an ethical mandate given the prevalence of racism-related stress and trauma • The overlapping theoretical frameworks of liberation psychology, decolonial psychology, and anti-racism psychology • Anti-racism in assessment and treatment, as well as education and administration. |
| Instruction Level: Basic |
| Target Audience: Clinicians, educators, and administrators, as most training programs have not offered training in addressing racial trauma. |
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will be able to: (1) List at least three potential mental health consequences of racism; (2) apply decolonial, trauma-informed principles to assessing racial trauma; (3) describe an appropriate liberation, trauma-informed framework to racial trauma intervention. |
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| THEMA BRYANT DAVIS (Pepperdine) |
 Thema Bryant is a professor of psychology at Pepperdine University and director of the Culture and Trauma Research Lab. She is a past president of the Society for the Psychology of Women and past psychology representative to the United Nations. The California Psychological Association honored her as Scholar of the Year for her work in the cultural context of trauma recovery and the Institute of Violence, Abuse, and Trauma honored her for mentorship in the field of trauma psychology. She published one of the first frameworks and models for the treatment of racial trauma and has provided trainings for associations, Universities, counseling centers, and non-profit organizations nationally and internationally. The APA division of International Psychology honored her in 2020 for contributions to international psychology for her global work on women. She also gave an invited address at the APA 2020 convention on racial trauma. |
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