Cultural Moral Injury: The Longitudinal Impact of Existing in a Racialized Society

Friday, September 20, 2024
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Webinar

Registration Fee: $45

Bernadette Spooner Thompson Ed.S., LPC-S, LCPC, CSC, founder and principal of Context of Culture, LLC is committed to facilitating safe and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of societal hierarchies and cultural identity within a trauma-informed framework. Her specializations are issues that impact children, women, and racial identity.

Bernadette possesses a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, and an Education Specialist Degree in Professional Counseling. She is licensed as a professional counselor and supervisor in Missouri, a certified K-12 school counselor in Missouri, a licensed professional clinical counselor in Kansas, and a level one certified clinical trauma professional.

Having spent nearly a decade within the K-12 academic environment in various capacities, Bernadette provided individual counseling support for students and families while creating social emotional development curricula and teaching in the classroom. Along with creating a proactive and reactive comprehensive counseling program responsive to the needs of students and their families with a foundational focus of creating a culturally-affirming, trauma-predictive environment within academic institutions, she facilitated professional development centered on trauma-informed practices to better equip staff and faculty.

Bernadette is keenly aware of the many challenges marginalized individuals face today and the corresponding impact socially, emotionally, and psychologically centered at the intersection of race, class, gender.

OVERVIEW:

The internalized impact of living in a racialized society not only has physiological, psychological, emotional, and social ramifications, it can also lead to cultural moral injury. Unlike the occupational moral injury often associated with military, medical, and educational professionals that is treated in relation to career experiences, cultural moral injury is more difficult to heal. The propensity for racialized individuals to succumb to cultural moral injury is both insidious and pervasive due to the historical and systemic trauma frameworks in which our current societal infrastructures still function.

OBJECTIVES: After attending this Zoom webinar, the participant will be able to:

Define cultural moral injury and gain a foundational understanding of how it differs from traditional or occupational moral injury,
Increase awareness of how early the precursors of cultural moral injury begin and how cultural moral injury builds over the lifespan for racialized individuals,
Begin to explore self-protective and self-healing measures to mitigate and recover from the internalized pain carried by those suffering from cultural moral injury.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This continuing education Zoom webinar is designed for case managers, social workers, psychologists, therapists, counselors, and health care workers. The community is welcome to attend.

CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Mental Health America of the Heartland is a pre-approved provider for social workers through the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board (BSRB) Provider Number 17-007. This continuing education provider is approved 3.0 hours for social workers and accepted for psychologists, professional counselors, masters prepared psychologists, marriage and family therapists and addiction counselors.

In order to receive continuing education credit and a certificate of attendance for this Zoom webinar, you will be required to participate in the Zoom webinar. You will receive a Zoom invitation via email within a week of webinar. Also you will need to take an online exam and complete an evaluation that will be sent in a separate email after the live Zoom webinar. You must pass the test by 70%. The Zoom webinar will not be available by recording and viewing at any other time.

Questions?

Stacy Davis
Mental Health America of the Heartland
739 Minnesota Avenue
Kansas City, KS 66101
Phone: 913-222-5933
Email: sdavis@mhah.org
www.mhah.org

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Please register by September 19, 2024. If you are unable to register online or have questions or need translation or accommodations please contact Stacy Davis at least 5 days prior to the workshop.

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