Mid-Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society
Let's Face Fact(or)s: Navigating Race in Groups Through Re-examining Therapeutic Factors.
Guest Presenter: Aziza Belcher Platt, Ph.D.
Learning Objectivies
- Identify relevant ethical codes associated with addressing systemic oppression and creating inclusive and culturally responsive therapeutic encounters
- Analyze race and racism in individual and societal systems and extrapolate that to group therapy
- Identify the trajectories and outcomes of racial-cultural events in groups
-Use an understanding of the therapeutic factors to illuminate, facilitate, and resolve racial-cultural events within groups
- Apply a broad range of skills, strategies, and innovative practices to incorporate principles of social justice into their group work
- Identify performance and social anxiety, and methods to address it
- Demonstrate increased self-knowledge and awareness of practitioner anxiety and coping mechanisms, and how these constructs may impact work with patients