You're here because you have black patients that don't show up for sessions consistently, they are initially hesitant to give information, they give short responses, constantly on defense or, they don't receive the same results and breakthroughs as quickly as patients of other races.
This is due to mistrust for the mental health profession as a whole as it pertains to black people. What if I told you the key to building deep trust and breakthroughs for your black patients is having the empathy to learn and understand the history of where the mistrust began? This course is going to provide that for you.
Introducing: Art Exposing Psych Racism
Your clients and potential clients have deep rooted trauma that's stored in the body. Whether or not they have directly experienced certain things, these psychological racial traumas have been passed down through generations dating back to slavery. In order to build deep trust and give your clients major transformations, you have to understand the history.
Because you're here, you are already showing your deep empathy for your clients. Your black patients, need to feel seen, heard, understood and important. The best way to earn their trust, is to disarm their defenses with understanding and addressing the fears they have with getting help.
By learning the history of psychological racism, school to prison pipeline, and mental health diagnosis in black people, you will begin to see similarities to issues we face today. Getting to the root issue will allow you to build deep trust that will result in dynamic transformations.
The Safe Place APP is on a mission to improve the relationship between black people and the Mental Health Field by exposing the foul treatments black people experience, the history behind racism and its effects and being the bridge between patient and provider. Taking this course will help you be apart of the change.
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