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Hip Hop Therapy: A Culturally Responsive Approach to Trauma Treatment

A Culturally Responsive Approach to Trauma Treatment

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1 CE Hour
Cultural Competency, General

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Description

At first glance, Hip Hop and therapy might appear to be quite the odd combination. However, despite drastically different cultural underpinnings, they are both widely used expressive practices that serve as a form of catharsis and connection. For half a century, the culture of Hip Hop has served a therapeutic purpose for participants and witnesses alike. It has also reached people where, historically, talk therapy has not. With roots in progressive social movements and political protest, its messages transcend geography, race, ethnicity, and class. First developed in the mid-90s by Hall’s late mentor Dr. Edgar Tyson, Hip Hop therapy (HHT) embraces the therapeutic value of Hip Hop and its power to facilitate personal and communal transformation.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
Learning Objectives

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

  • Describe the origins of Hip Hop culture and how its inherently cathartic elements relate to two or more forms of psychotherapy.

  • Assess the theoretical and practical underpinnings of Hip Hop therapy as a receptive and expressive approach to treatment.

  • Identify 2 or more treatment outcomes of a studio-based approach to Hip Hop therapy in a transfer high school setting.

  • Analyze a trauma-informed approach to HHT based on the neurophysiological implications of its parallels with expressive arts therapy and EMDR.

References

  • Crooke, A., & McFerran, K. (2019). Improvising using beat making technologies in music therapy with young people. Music Therapy Perspectives, 37(1), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/miy025

  • Cross, K., & Fujioka, T. (2019). Auditory rhyme processing in expert freestyle rap lyricists and novices: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 129, 223-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.03.022

  • Hadley, S., & Yancy, G. (Eds.). (2011). Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203806012 Malchiodi, C. (2020). Trauma and expressive arts therapy: Brain, body, & imagination in the healing process. Guilford Publications.

  • Travis, R. (2016). The healing power of Hip Hop: Intersections of race, ethnicity, and culture. Praeger.

  • Travis, R., Rodwin, A., & Allcorn, A. (2019). Hip Hop, empowerment, and clinical practice for homeless adults with severe mental illness. Social Work with Groups, 42(2), 83-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2018.1486776

  • Travis, R., Gann, E., Crooke, A., & Jenkins, S. (2020). Using Therapeutic Beat Making and lyrics for empowerment. Journal of Social Work, 21(3). 551-574. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1468017320911346

Introductory
Cultural Competency
General
Counselors

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.

 

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

 

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.

Addiction Counselors

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. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

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 continuing education credit.

 

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

 

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.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

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

 

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.

Physicians


In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.Health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.

 

Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses


In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.Health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.

 

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 1 ANCC contact hours.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. 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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J.C. Hall, LCSW, EXAT

J.C. Hall, LCSW, EXAT is a Hip Hop artist and clinical social worker who runs the Hip Hop Therapy Studio program at Mott Haven Community High School, a “second-chance” public school in the South Bronx. In 2013, Hall assembled a professional recording studio in an old storage room to provide youth the opportunity to engage in the therapeutic process through writing, recording, producing and performing their own music. The origins of the program are chronicled in the award-winning short documentary Mott Haven, which showcases the efficacy of this approach in addressing trauma and grief in the wake of a school tragedy. After the passing of his mentor Dr. Edgar Tyson, the originator of Hip Hop Therapy (HHT), Hall developed hiphoptherapy.com to serve as a free resource for those interested in the emerging field. Due to the impact of his work over the years, Hall won the 2020 National Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefiting the New York Community.

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