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• Archive: Faculty:Candice Richardson DickensDuration:2 Hours 4 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:Mar 22, 2019 Description African Americans regularly receive societal messages about their lack of value, powerlessness, and inability to ensure their personal safety.
• Perpetuated through media stories as well as common, everyday interactions, these microtraumas cause African Americans to experience a heightened sense of cortisol arousal, a pervasive feeling of doom, and a lack of trust in relation to their environment.
• The result is hypervigilance and intrusive exaggerated flight, fight, and freeze responses.
• Macro-traumasDSM-5 Trauma and PTSDDefining and Assessing TraumaWitnessed or Experienced TraumaTalking about RaceTalking to Children about RaceAddressing Ethnic Differences Between Therapist & ClientEmpowering through Experience ValidationTechniques for Treating Physiological Responses to TraumaMindfulnessGrounding & TappingDeep Breathing TechniquesVisualizations & HypnosisReducing Shame & Increasing Self-AffirmationsUnderstanding Long-Term MemoryImplicit MemoryExplicit MemoryEpisodicSemanticTrauma & NeurosciencePolyvagal TheorySympathetic and Parasympathetic responsesPhysiological Impact of Trauma on African Americans Faculty Candice Richardson Dickens, LCPC-S, LCADC-S, CCTP Related seminars and products: 1 Candice Richardson Dickens, LCPC-S, LCADC-S, CCTP, is a hypnotherapist, Imago therapist, and owner of CRA Counseling and Consulting Agency.