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Full Summit Dates: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - Friday, April 17, 2020
The Pacific Southwest MHTTC will be presenting three workshops at the 17th Hawaii International Summit on Preventing, Assessing & Treating Trauma Across the Lifespan. Workshops will take place on April 14th, 16th, and 17th, 2020. Please see below for more details on our workshops.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020: 12:30pm - 4:30pm HT
Trauma refers to individual trauma resulting from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being. A trauma-informed approach to the delivery of mental health services includes an understanding of trauma and an awareness of the impact it can have across settings, services, and populations. This workshop provides a conceptual foundation of the importance of trauma and approaching the delivery of services and supports through culturally responsive trauma-informed approach. Participants will engage in interactive experiences/discussions and examine the importance of culturally responsive trauma-informed approach as a change process and better understand the leadership required to motivate and manage the change to integrate trauma-informed approach and cultural and linguistic competence in the delivery of mental health services and supports.
Thursday, April 16, 2020: 12:00pm - 1:45pm HT
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. Everyone has them, and becoming mindful of how implicit and explicit biases impact our work with others is important. This workshop explores the dynamics of implicit bias and its impact on service and supports provision in mental health spaces. Implicit biases affect how service providers perceive and respond to people. Bias can lead to unfair differences in the expectations we hold of those we serve, ways in which we interact with them, and the retraumatization that we create in our encounters with our clients. This workshop will also dive into the concept and understanding of implicit bias leading to workplace trauma among staff and personnel in that of the unhealthy workplace culture and climate. Participants will experience a hands-on and interactive workshop that when they finish they will have a strong grasp of implicit bias in trauma in the workplace setting.
Friday, April 17, 2020: 8:00am - 11:15am HT
Secondary trauma or vicarious trauma is the emotional residue of exposure that health care providers have from working with people, hearing their trauma stories, and becoming witnesses to the pain, fear, and terror that trauma survivors have endured. This experience is filtered their own cultural values and beliefs. This workshop provides an understanding of vicarious/secondary trauma and its impact on crisis/trauma response providers and other providers through a cultural lens. Assessing for symptoms like compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma which diverse cultures experience and express in different ways will be reviewed. Systemic and organizational approaches to providing coping and resilience building strategies using a cultural lens will be explored. Participants will engage in interactive experiences/discussions and examine the importance of culturally responsive trauma informed approaches to coping positively and moving towards posttraumatic growth.
