“Life, for me, ain’t been no crystal stair…But this?!?!” Psychotherapy with African American Women in the Current Sociopolitical Climate

“Life, for me, ain’t been no crystal stair…But this?!?!” Psychotherapy with African American Women in the Current Sociopolitical Climate

Friday, March 19, 2021

Registration 8:30am Program 9am to 12pm

Presented By: Cheryll Rothery, Psy.D., ABPP

Location: Online Workshop

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3.0 CE Credits

This workshop will provide an in-depth look at ways in which the current sociopolitical climate affects the mental health and well-being of the African American community, with a particular focus on African American women. From an overarching framework of Cultural Humility, aspects of the Relational-Cultural Model and Kenneth Hardy’s Racial Trauma Model will be used to illustrate conscious therapeutic interactions in the assessment and treatment of specific presenting problems experienced by African American women navigating today’s societal landscape. Case examples and video segments will be used to elucidate African American women’s lived experiences and therapist interventions.

Objectives:

1. Discuss 3 ways the current sociopolitical climate affects the mental health and well-being of the African American community, particularly African American women.
2. Define Cultural Humility and describe how it differs from Cultural Competence.
3. Describe the premise and 5 tenets of the Relational Cultural Model.
4. Describe 3 components of Hardy’s Racial Trauma Model.
5. Apply the concepts of connection and disconnection from the Relational Cultural Model and the concept of Racial Storytelling from the Hardy Racial Trauma Model to relevant case material.

Dr. Cheryll Rothery is a graduate of the Rutgers University, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. She is Professor of Psychology and the Graduate Program Chair and Director of Clinical Training of the Center for Professional Psychology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience in teaching, training, supervision and administration, and 25 years of experience in individual, couple, and family therapy. Dr. Rothery’s areas of clinical focus include ethnic identity development, adjustment issues, life transition issues, anxiety and mood disorders, bereavement, LGB issues, relationship issues, and women’s issues. Dr. Rothery has a small private practice and is an associate and consultant for the Ladipo Group in Philadelphia.

Dr. Rothery is a frequent workshop presenter on topics related to providing culturally-informed psychotherapy to African American clients, relational-cultural therapy; racial and ethnic identity formation and struggles; and the training and supervision of clinicians. She also provides organizational consultation and training on various diversity topics. Dr. Rothery has served on the executive boards of the Delaware Valley Association of Black Psychologists, the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists, the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, and the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s Distinguished Service Award and the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Alumni Award for Distinguished Career Achievement.

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