Understanding our Microaggressions in Working with Minority Clients

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As clinicians, we face challenges in discussing how power and privilege effect our clients. Microaggressions are commonplace in our society and it is important to understand what they are, their different forms and how they effect society. Finding new ways to discuss microaggressions with our clients is an important component of mental health care.

Who Should Attend:   

 Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Creative Arts Therapists, Marriage and Family Therapists, and any professional that is working in the mental health field. 

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify the roots of “othering” and how power and privilege are manifested in microaggressions.  
• Participants will be able to identitfy how people who live in the same world can have different realities related to power and privilege which in turn can result in overlooked forms of trauma.  
• Participants will be able to recognize the types of trauma related  to microaggressions in our clients and provide congruent clinical interventions.
• Participants will be able to discuss with our clients how older ways of dsicussing power, privilege and microaggressions overlook important clinical needs and facilitate newer types of discussions.
  

APPROVED FOR 3 CE HOURS (LMSW/LCSW/LMHC/LCAT/LMFT)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. (Provider #0156)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. (Provider #MHC-0014)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. (Provider #MFT-0010)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. (Provider #CAT-0004)
 

*New York State Office of the Professions (NYSED) regulations require that participants attend the entire approved educational activity in order to receive continuing education credits, from 9:00am-12:00pm. 

Certificate of completion will be provided at the end of the workshop.

Registration fee: $60.00

***No Refunds will be issued for cancellations *** 

About the Presenter:  

Letizia Adorno, LCSW  is an instructor and supervisor at the Trauma Studies Center at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.  She has also been a guest lecturer at various Social Work and clinical organizations.  Ms. Adorno has been in clinical practice since 1998 and has held various agency jobs providing in addition to her private psychotherapy practice.  She has been working with ethnically diverse individuals and specializes in working with people who identify as different types of minorities. The traumatic effects of discrimination and microaggressions towards a number of minorities is a focus of Ms. Adorno’s work with her clients and part of her clinical teaching and supervision.  In March 2019, Ms. Adorno presented on “Understanding Our Microaggression When Working With  Latinx Families” at the Latino Social Workers Coalition’s Spring Conference held at NYU School of Social Work.    

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