IPA 2024 Webinar Series
1.0 Hour of Category I CE credit
Wednesday, June 12th, 2024 at Noon

Co-sponsored by the Indiana Association of Black Psychologists (IABPsi) and IPA

Registrants will receive further information for participating via Zoom Webinar for the presentation.

Challenges to Assessing and Treating Racial Trauma and How to Overcome Them Ethically, Practically, and Bravely
In this engaging webinar, the presenters offer an overview on how to assess and treat racial trauma in people of color. We focus on (1) recognizing complexities in the social environment that make this work challenging (for example, practitioners naming or talking about "racial issues" may appear to them as though they are entering into more political than therapeutic arenas) and (2) theory-informed guidelines for navigating therapeutic/consultation interactions. We highlight the research that identifies the multiple influences of individual trauma --- developmental, physiological, and societal, and offer strategies for ethically overcoming the challenges that tend to diminish practitioners' ability to help their clients' healing processes. Case studies will be presented to illustrate successful measures to facilitate client healing. This presentation is an introduction to an extended workshop we plan to offer in the fall which will provide attendees with opportunities to engage in role-plays and receive nuanced guidance in the promotion of successful processes and outcomes in therapy and consultation.
    
Learning Objectives
By completing this program, participants will able to:
1.    Describe what racial trauma is, its symptomatology, and recent research about its manifestations in people of color.
2.    Summarize how racialized environments influence and can exacerbate racial trauma, thus an understanding of these environments is relevant to an understanding of this form of trauma and to ethical psychological practice.
3.    Apply theory and other guidelines to the ethical treatment of people of color affected by racial trauma .
4.   Describe how racial trauma can be integrated into a practice setting based on qualities about the client and the practitioner.

Presenter Bio:  Chalmer Thompson, PhD
Chalmer E. Thompson, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of IUPUI and a psychology legal consultant in Indiana. For 30 years, Dr. Thompson has built her scholarship, teaching, and practice around theory development on racialized violence and its application to individual, group, and community-level practices. She also has studied how therapists' "racial talk" can be used to be optimally effective in therapy. She has worked for over 20 years with the psychology department faculty at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda on research projects in peace psychology. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Specialist fellowships and the American Psychological Association (APA) Ignacio Martín-Baró Peace Practitioner Lifetime Award. Dr. Thompson is the author of multiple journal publications, book chapters, and 3 books, including Racial Identity Theory: Applications to Individual, Group, and Organizational Interventions (with Robert T. Carter), An International Casebook in Mental Health (with senior editor Senel Poyrazli) and A Psychology of Liberation and Peace:  For the Greater Good.  She is a Fellow of APA Divisions 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology), 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), and 52 (International Psychology), and the current president of the Indiana Association of Black Psychologists.  

Dr. Chalmer Thompson

Presenter Bio: Joseph Smedley, PhD, LMHC
Dr. Joseph Smedley, Ph.D., LMHC is a native of Chicago, Il. He is Founder and President of Smedley and Smedley Consulting & Training LLC based in Noblesville IN. His firm provides solutions for businesses, healthcare, and educational organizations to develop a workplace which promotes, supports, and improves the mental health and well-being of their employees. His expertise is in the assessment of organizational culture, organization development, and facilitating professional development in Cultural Competence. He is a licensed psychotherapist in the state of Indiana. Dr. Smedley has held dual appointments as adjunct assistant professor in both the School of Education, and the Purdue School of Science - Department of Psychology, at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He recently served as associate professor in the Graduate School of Behavioral Health and Clinical Psychology at the University of Indianapolis. He is the former Chair of the Department of Psychology at Martin University in Indianapolis. Dr. Smedley obtained his BS in psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and his MS and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Howard University in Washington, DC. He was also awarded a Certificate for Social Scientists in Neuroscience from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Smedley is a published author and has conducted numerous seminars for university faculty, school counselors, psychologists, administrators, and school board members, and, has served as consultant to school districts serving the K-12 population.

Dr. Joseph Smedley

Special Note to Conference Attendees
The Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Indiana Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
 
Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board:

• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for psychologists.

• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC.

Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice.
 
Please note that APA rules require that credit be given only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the scheduled start time or leaving early will not receive CE credits. Partial credit cannot be given. We ask that all participants return the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program. Drs.Thompson & Smedley, IPA, and IABPsi have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
 
CE certificates will be distributed via email withing two weeks post-event. 
 
Registration Fees
IPA New, Premier, Platinum, Emeritus-Practicing, and Student Members - $0
IPA Basic, Emeritus-Retired Members, and Affiliate Members - $15
Non-Members - Psychologists and Other Professionals $30
*If a non-member Student seeking to attend, please either join IPA (free membership with "sponsorship" by an IPA Academic Member or, if outside the state of Indiana, please contact info@indianapsychology.org.

Registration will close on Tuesday, June 11th, 2024.