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Paper Presentation

African Americans and the African Diaspora

Session: Let's Talk About Trauma

Preparing Social Work Students to Address Cultural Traumatized Internal Working Models of African Americans

Friday, October 25, 2024
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2201
Increased awareness surrounding the impact of historical and contemporary race- and culture-based trauma are significant to decolonizing clinician practice. Findings suggest clinicians believe increased preparation, dialogue, and structure surrounding methods of assessing the internalization of colonialism in Black/African American clients can improve and sustain treatment outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Defining and establishing a criterion for a culturally traumatized internal working model.
  2. Analyzing the role of collective identification and community membership's significance in the client's understanding and connecting this with their presenting treatment concerns.
  3. Identifying a structured assessment model that incorporates exploring cultural trauma within the therapeutic process.