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Counseling Black Older Adults with Racial Trauma

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Virtual
1 CE Hour
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Description

This workshop will illuminate how compounded racially traumatic experiences across the lifespan impact Black older adults as they age. Incorporating themes pertaining to racial trauma created through Dr. Jones’ dissertation research, Dr. Jones will provide storied examples of racially traumatic experiences and offer ways Black older adults have navigated their racial trauma. This session will unpack race-based traumatic stress for Black baby boomers, address diagnostic absence of racial trauma in the DSM-V and how counselors circumvent the diagnostic shortcoming. We will further examine assessments, narrative therapeutic approaches, and interventions in treatment to empower racially traumatized Black older adults in obtaining mental wellness in older adulthood.

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Psychologist
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this presentation is to educate individuals on culturally relevant assessments, approaches, and interventions to working with Black Older Adults who have experienced racial trauma.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Define racial trauma.

  • Summarize the historical societal influences that contribute to racial trauma for older Black adults.

  • Identify and describe at least five presentations of racial trauma across the lifespan.

  • Articulate how racial trauma across the lifespan can impact Black individuals in or entering into older adulthood.

  • Name at least two assessments or interventions that can be utilized with Black older adult clients.

References

  • Ayalon, L., & Gum, A. M. (2011). The relationships between major lifetime discrimination, everyday discrimination, and mental health in three racial and ethnic groups of older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 15(5), 587-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2011.563876

  • Booker, V. (2014). Civil Rights Religion? Rethinking 1950s and 1960s Political Activism for African American Religious History. Journal of Africana Religions, 2(2), 211-243.

  • Bor, J., Venkataramani, A. S., Williams, D. R., & Tsai, A. C. (2018). Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based quasi-experimental study. The Lancet, 392(10144), 302–310. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31130-9.

  • Briere, J. N., & Scott, C. (2014). Principles of trauma therapy: A guide to symptoms, evaluation, and treatment. SAGE Publications.

  • Brondolo, E., Ng, W., Pierre, K.-L. J., & Lane, R. (2016). Racism and mental health: Examining the link between racism and depression from a social cognitive perspective. In A. N. Alvarez, C.

  • T. H. Liang, & H. A. Neville (Eds.), The cost of racism for people of color: Contextualizing experiences of discrimination. 109–132. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/14852-006

  • Bryant-Davis, T. (2019). Healing racial trauma: The road to resilience. American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000171-000

  • Carter, R. T. (2007). Racism and psychological and emotional injury: Recognizing and assessing race-based traumatic stress. The Counseling Psychologist, 35(1), 13-105.

  • Chae, D. H., Lincoln, K. D., & Jackson, J. S. (2011). Discrimination, attribution, and racial group identification: Implications for psychological distress among Black Americans in the National Survey of American Life (2001–2003). American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 81(4), 498. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.2011.01122.x

  • Delgado, R., & Stefancic, J. (2017). Critical race theory: An introduction (Vol. 20). NYU press. Franklin-Jackson, D., & Carter, R. T. (2007). The relationships between race-related stress, racial identity, and mental health for Black Americans. Journal of Black Psychology, 33(1), 5-26.

  • Greer, T. M., & Spalding, A. (2017). The role of age in understanding the psychological effects of racism for African Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 23(4), 588-594. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000148

Clinical
Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologist

Pending review.

Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Clinical continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Counseling Services

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Janelle L. Jones, PhD, NCC

Janelle Jones, PhD, NCC is an Assistant Professor at Agnes Scott College in Decatur Georgia. Dr. Jones obtained her Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from Indiana University, her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Georgia State University, and her Doctorate in Counselor Education from the University of Alabama. She also obtained graduate certificates in Gerontology and Qualitative Research. Dr. Jones is a National Board of Certified Counselors Fellow, an NBCC Mental Health Facilitator, and serves as President for the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). Dr. Jones has facilitated more than thirty national and international conference presentations and trainings. Dr. Jones’ dissertation research examined racialized trauma experiences across the lifespan for Black baby boomers. Her research interests include gerontological counseling, racial trauma, and mentorship in counselor education.

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