Trauma-Informed Responses to Racial Injustice: Interventions for Immigrant, Diverse or Vulnerable Populations – Charissa Pizarro

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Do these racially-charged times leave you and your clients asking: Am I safe? Do I belong? Is your heightened sensitivity toward the racially-charged social and political climate holding you back from robustly treating your clients struggling with racial injustice?

Gain the confidence, cultural competency and trauma interventions to empower your most vulnerable clients! Watch Dr. Charissa D. Pizarro a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of clinical experience working with diverse clinical populations on trauma and adjustment disorders in addition to extensive research and policy experience on immigration.

You will gain immeasurable insight from Dr. Pizarro on how to address diverse populations AND practical, step-by-step recommendations and resources in providing tactical solutions for your clients facing deportation, violence, family separation, or meeting their basic needs. Upon completing of this seminar, you will enhance your toolbox with:

• Cultural Humility exercises to better connect with existing and potential clients
• Culturally Sensitive Treatment plans that address racism and discrimination within the family, at work or school, in the community and elsewhere
• Tactical tools to help your clients access advocacy, basic needs, direct service needs such as food, shelter and healthcare.
• Resilience interventions for diverse children and adult populations

Purchase today and take the incredible step toward empowering yourself and your clients!

1. Conduct a self-appraisal of cultural competence and cultural humility to raise self-awareness about your own values, biases and privileges and how they can affect your clinical work.
2. Assess specific risks and exposures immigrants face before and after entering the U.S. and how they can impact mental health.
3. Develop culturally sensitive treatment plans for working with immigrant populations that account for differences in languages, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other factors.
4. Apply concrete and feasible strategies for assisting immigrant clients with advocacy, health and other direct service needs.
5. Utilize culturally sensitive coping skills exercises and psychoeducation to reduce fear and anxiety.
6. Apply trauma-informed practices from play therapy and sandtray therapy to assist immigrant children and families in telling their story.

Keys to Cultural Humility

• What is cultural humility – and how to make it work for you
• Cultural competency vs. cultural humility
• The necessity for cultural humility and cultural attunement
• Exercises for developing cultural humility

The “Journey Story” for Foreign Nationals & Immigrants

• Discern between varying diverse immigrant experiences.
• Risk assessment of foreign nationals and immigrants
• How to tell your story when it’s illegal, violent or misunderstood
• Tactical tools for addressing client trauma: “Telling My Story”

Appraising Unique Challenges of Foreign Nationals

• Understanding why some clients live in constant fear
• Deportation concerns and resources to address client needs
• Assessing needs related to family separations

Trauma-Informed Interventions for Foreign Nationals

• Processing experiences of rape, war, violence of the past
• Living with the fear of deportation and violence
• Rewriting the client narrative
• Psychoeducation & Coping skills exercises

Practical Tools for Advocacy, Basic Needs and Direct Services

• Assess why immigrants are vulnerable to increased risk for negative outcomes
• “Essential Worker” challenges
• Providing psychoeducation on medical and health needs
• How to help access advocacy & basic needs information
• Understanding food insecurity, shelter, health and other direct service needs

Culturally Sensitive Treatment Plans

• Assessment tools for immigrant PTSD
• Appraising racism and discrimination in relationships, family, work and community
• Creating clinician-client collaboration content
• Adopting language & acculturation methods
• Resilience, social support & specific coping mechanisms

Trauma-Informed Interventions for Children

• Play Therapy for retelling their story/narrative
• Differences in Play Therapy for vulnerable populations
• Sandtray Therapy for racism, discrimination, genograms
• Tools for building immediate & lifelong resilience

Interventions for the Family Unit

• Activities, Family Skills’ building
• How to honor past experiences and rebuild the Family Narrative

Research, Treatment Risks and Limitations