Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy Training Series: Clinical Responsiveness & Chicanx Mental Health

6 Session, ONLINE TRAINING, June 26 - Nov. 20

Optional CE’s forthcoming

Dates:

June 26 July 24 Aug. 21 Sep. 25 Oct. 23 Nov. 20

Session Times: 11am - 1:30pm CDT/ 9am - 11:30am PST

As a result of this training participants will understand the framework for a Chicana/o/x Affirmative approach, understand how a focus on identity, family, and spirituality are key in a Chicanx Affirmative approach, learn to be culturally responsive to Chicana/x/o culture in clinical interactions, gain an understanding of varying notions of mental well-being from a Chicana/o/x perspective, and apply these concepts with case scenarios in each training session. Features of the training series are: Constructing Chicana/o/x wellness & well-being, the roles of identity, family, and spirituality for Chicana/o/x mental health, facilitating a reconnection to current and ancestral cultural strengths in clinical practice, aspects of Chicana/o/x culture that complements the practice of counseling & therapy, values & assumptions of the mental health field that are not congruent with Chicana/o/x wellness culture, the impacts of marginalization and discrimination on Chicana/o/x well-being on an individual and community level, and the inclusion of historical trauma in the treatment of Chicana/o/x populations.

After completing the training participants will receive:

Certificate of Training Completion

On-going support and consultation for 6 months after training

Listing on our Clinician Directory

Annual group check in sessions and case scenarios

As a result of participating, the attendee will be able to:

Identify varying notions of mental well-being from a Chicana/o/x perspective

Describe how a focus on identity, family, and spirituality are key in a Chicanx Affirmative approach

Define the difference between individualistic and collectivistic worldviews in therapy

Identify 5 aspects of Chicana/o/x culture that complements the practice of counseling & therapy

Describe the 3 foundations and 3 principles of a Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy

Identify at least 3 clinical interventions that center Chicanx/Latinx cultural values or experiences.

15hr Training

“This training modeled how to hold and nurture space in a indigenous affirming and centering way”

— Participant

“It was helpful to have a space to continually be reminded of collectivist values and the gifts of ancestral knowledge and wisdom that is not included in western psychology. ”

— Participant

“it gave me the opportunity to value collectivism just as much as individualism. This space simply doesn’t exist anywhere else, except when we intentionally make space for it!”

— Participant

“my ancestors brought me into alignment with this community and with the land. This training really helped me spiritually and feeling held by the elements, my ancestors, my maestros, my classmates, and my corazon”

— Participant