Help Clients Heal, Cope & Thrive: A Framework for Racial & Cultural Stress

Helping Clients Heal, Cope, and Thrive: A Flexible Treatment Framework for Clients Struggling with Racial and Cultural Stress (CE 3)

Ryan C.T. DeLapp, PhD

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This continuing education activity meets the criteria for Cultural Competency/Ethnicity training (3 credits), as required by licensing boards in various jurisdictions.

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL/TARGET AUDIENCE: This is an intermediate level training and is best suited for mental health practitioners (e.g., psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists) who are motivated to offer culturally responsive care to clients of color.

Culturally stressful events (CSEs) capture the moments individuals feel they experience negative judgment, mistreatment, or denied opportunities due (in part) to their cultural background. CSEs unfortunately continue to be social, emotional, and cognitive stressors that persons of color (POCs) are tasked with learning to navigate in their daily lives. However, it can be hard, as clinicians, to know how to efficiently conceptualize the impacts of CSEs in ways that clarify avenues for offering support and healing. In this presentation, attendees will learn to use components of the Racial, Ethnic, And Cultural Healing Unifying Principles (DeLapp & Gallo, 2022; DeLapp & DeLapp, 2024) to conceptualize and then flexibly adapt their treatment plans for the impacts of racial and cultural experiences when working with POCs. Specifically, clinicians will receive tips for broaching conversations related to CSEs. And, the presentation will offer an overview of treatment options for supporting POCs in coping with following impacts of experiencing CSEs:

1. Emotional Stress: the intense and uncomfortable emotional responses caused by CSEs

2. Identity Stress: the ways CSEs can impact one’s sense of self-love, self-confidence, and cultural pride

3. Agency Stress: the ways CSEs undermine one’s sense of agency and control within their surroundings

Learning Objectives

1. Implement strategies for sensitively broaching conversations about racial and cultural stress

2. Identify when a client’s disclosures suggest they are experiencing Emotional, Identity, or Agency Stresses

3. Create culturally responsive treatment plans that flexibly target these 3-ways racial and cultural stress can impact POCs

Presenters

Ryan DeLapp, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in New York and PSYPACT member, Director of DEI Initiatives and co-Director of Community Education Program at The Ross Center, and creator of the Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Healing (REACH) program. Dr DeLapp is widely recognized for his expertise in supporting minority individuals with healing from cultural stressors within their lives. The REACH Program adapts evidenced-based treatments to help teens and young adults develop protective skills to alleviate the impact of race-based stress. This program is derived from over 10 years of Dr. DeLapp’s research and clinical practice. And, from this work, he has authored over 20 publications and has conducted over 100 presentations discussing considerations for assessing and treating racial and cultural stress in diverse populations. The culmination of these considerations is featured in his recently released workbook entitled “Empower Yourself Against Racial and Cultural Stress: Using Skills from the REACH Program to Heal, Cope, and Thrive.”

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Continuing Education: 3 credits

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