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Digital Seminar

Racial Trauma Treatment: Step-by-Step Assessment and Culturally Adapted CBT to Empower Healing


Speaker:
Janeé Steele, PhD, LPC
Duration:
Full Day
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN, ES, DE, IT, and FR, handouts in EN, ES, DE, IT, and FR
Copyright:
20 Feb, 2025
Product Code:
POS150004
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

For countless individuals, racial trauma shapes their daily lives, leaving deep emotional scars.

But many clinicians struggle with where they should even start …

And the last thing you want to do is misstep, overstep, or outright offend.

That’s where culturally adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help. Widely regarded as the gold standard in mental health treatment, CBT can be powerfully effective for racially diverse populations when appropriately adapted.

So watch author and certified CBT therapist Janeé Steele, PhD, LPC, who developed this training to help you deal with the intricate challenges of treating racial trauma. Through rich case examples and authentic, client-therapist dialogues, you’ll learn to provide culturally sensitive, theoretically informed, and evidence-based CBT treatment strategies for your clients.

As a result of completing this training you will be better prepared to:

  • Conceptualize and assess race-based trauma
  • Unpack race-based stress in a trauma-responsive way
  • Utilize culturally derived sources of strength and coping to further promote healing from race-based trauma
  • Build rapport and create safety in the therapeutic relationship
  • Ease the physical effects of trauma through mindfulness practices

It’s time to challenge the doubt surrounding CBT’s ability to treat racial trauma. Increase your ability to facilitate recovery from racial trauma and improve CBT outcomes in your work with racially diverse clients!

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Credit


Self-Study Credit

This self-study program consists of 6.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary by country and local regulatory bodies. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your local regulatory organization to determine specific eligibility and requirements. 



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Janeé M. Steele, PhD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, and expert in culturally responsive practice. She is the owner of Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC, and has published extensively on racial identity, internalized oppression, and multicultural counseling. Dr. Steele is author of the book Racism and African American Mental Health: Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Empower Healing, with forward by Judith S. Beck, and co-author of the book Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal From Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity. Her other publications and research interests focus on counselor training, social justice, and multicultural counseling competence.

Dr. Steele’s expertise on these topics is widely recognized and has been featured by various organizations and media outlets such as the American Counseling Association, Counseling Today, Psychology Today, Psychiatric Times, the National Social Anxiety Center, and Vogue. This expertise is further shared through her work as an associate editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, a member of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies’ Diversity Action Committee, and an appointed member of the American Counseling Association’s Research and Knowledge Committee. As a presenter, Dr. Steele is known for her engaging, down-to-earth trainings that help clinicians translate inclusion principles into everyday practice.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Janee Steele has employment relationships with Kalamazoo Cognitive & Behavioral Therapy, PPLC. CBT of Central and South Florida, and Walden University. She receives royalties as a published author. Janee Steele receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Janee Steele is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (ACBT), the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), and the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Objectives

  1. Determine symptoms of racial trauma.
  2. Examine racial trauma through culturally responsive therapeutic relationships.
  3. Evaluate racial trauma within a CBT framework.
  4. Choose cognitive restructuring techniques to challenge maladaptive beliefs and coping strategies developed in response to racial trauma.
  5. Utilize body-centric, mindfulness-based techniques to manage difficult emotions elicited by racial trauma.
  6. Determine empowerment strategies to address environmental factors leading to racial trauma.

Outline

The Need for Culturally Adapted Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Limitations of traditional CBT in diverse populations
  • The latest findings around treating racial trauma
  • A guide for treating with cultural adaptations of CBT
  • Research limitations and potential risks
Identify and Assess Racial Trauma
  • Facilitate culturally sensitive clinical interviews
  • Conduct quantitative assessment of racial trauma along common symptoms
    • Depression
    • Avoidance
    • Anger
    • And more
  • Protective factors that buffer against racial trauma and enhance coping in response to racism
Create and Facilitate a Culturally Responsive Space for Trauma Treatment

Therapeutic Relationships
  • Integrated approach to broaching race/ethnicity and culture
  • Establish a therapeutic bond using validation, empathy, and compassion
  • Repair cultural ruptures caused by microaggressions and cultural misunderstandings
Cognitive Conceptualization
  • Cognitive conceptualization of racial trauma within the CBT framework
  • Integrate culture and societal factors into conceptualization of maladaptive longitudinal and cross-sectional cognitions
  • Culturally responsive cognitive approaches for treatment planning and behavioral change
Cognitive Restructuring
  • Address negative automatic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that influence reactions to racism
  • Modify maladaptive core and intermediate beliefs developed in response to racism
  • Steps to support the development of critical consciousness
  • Techniques for exploration of culturally derived values and healing practices
Body-Centered Mindfulness
  • Increase awareness of the body’s response to racial trauma with mindfulness strategies
    • Body scan
    • Present-moment focus
  • Techniques to soothe the body’s physiological response to trauma
    • Meditation
    • Grounding
    • Breathing
    • Relaxation
    • Enhance self-esteem and resilience with self-compassion, acceptance, and more
Empower Individuals and Communities
  • Assertiveness interpersonal communication skills for dealing with microaggressions and racism
  • Affinity groups and counterspace that highlight culturally derived values
  • Use social action to promote justice across micro, meso, and macro-levels of change

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
  • Physicians

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