Liberating Our Patients

Behavioral health providers are on the frontlines of our current mental health crisis and social justice issues. This workshop will explore how providers can intervene around the impact of socio- political factors with their clients and integrate social justice into their clinical work. We will review the liberation health framework which merges clinical and macro work into a unified way of working with individuals, families, and communities. We will review the concepts of liberation psychology which acknowledges the confluence of clients’ internal world with the systemic social political forces affecting health and well being.