Working Effectively with Black Couples
This Home Study Program was recorded as a live event on April 9, 2021 as part of CFINE’s Spring Symposium Emotionally Focused Therapy in a Time of Racial Reckoning: Centering Race in Couple & Family Therapy*.
When: Any (Distance Learning/Home Study)
Instructor: Marjorie Nightingale, JD, LMFT
Format: Recorded video, 1:15 hours, plus handout
Fee: $25
CEs: This program does not offer CEs.
This workshop examines the importance of Self-of-the-Therapist work regarding race as a precursor to working with African American couples and encourages participants to consider the impact of their own identities on the building of therapeutic trust. Additionally, the presenter discusses how individual and collective experiences of racial trauma negatively impact African American couple functioning. Special attention is given to navigating culturally constructed narratives about vulnerability and/or trust to further deeper emotional exploration.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be better able to:
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Identify 3 methods for building trust with African American couples.
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Describe at least 2 ways that racial trauma negatively impacts African American couples.
Schedule
- Introductions: speaker, audience, course, and topic (5min)
- The importance of self-of-therapist work regarding racial identity and building therapeutic trust (30min)
- The impact of racial trauma on African American couple functioning (30min)
- Summary, questions, closing comments & evaluations (10min)