Adolescence in Crisis: Racial Trauma and Identity (A Trauma-Focused DBT Perspective)

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Eboni Webb, PsyD, HSP Related seminars and products

The Village of Kairos

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Eboni Webb, PsyD, HSP, opened the private practice Kairos in Middle Tennessee in July 2010. Kairos, now The Village of Kairos, offers diverse DBT specializations including DBT or trauma-based disorders and co-occurring disorders. The Village of Kairos has expanded therapy programs, better known as Restorative Services, to include individual and group therapy sessions for adolescents, parents, families, and adults, including in-the-moment coaching for patients.

Dr. Webb earned her Doctor of Clinical Psychology from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Webb began her clinical work as assistant clinical director and program director at Mental Health Systems in Minnesota, a large clinic specializing in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She has extensively practiced DBT, developing two special treatment programs for clients with developmental disabilities and borderline-intellectual functioning.

Dr. Webb has completed Level II training and is currently in the process of completing her board certification in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy as an Advanced Certified Practitioner, which has become a prominent feature of therapy offerings in the Village.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Eboni Webb maintains a private practice, and she has public speaking relationships with Acacia Therapy and Health Training and Jack Hirose and Associates, Inc. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Eboni Webb is an Executive Board Member for Mental Health America-Middle Tennessee.

Objectives

1. Apply a racial trauma-informed treatment framework to existing and future clients.  
2. Appraise how a DBT-informed approach can support clients who have experienced racial trauma. 
3. Utilize DBT strategies to overcome resistance to discussion, racial identity exploration and formation among adolescent clients. 

Outline

The Racial Trauma Survival Lens

• The impact of racial trauma on the developing mind
• Key features of healthy racial identity and its impact neurologically
• Common defensive survival strategies in racial trauma
• Historical traumatic wounds, hidden wounds, and microaggressions

Racial Trauma-Informed DBT Interventions

• Looking through the racial identity “life worth living” lens
• An ethnopolitical approach to racial trauma
• Utilize DBT to overcome resistance to discussion, racial identity exploration and formation among youth
• Learn how to balance validation, secure attachment, and DBT change strategies

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Case Managers
• Speech Language Pathologists
• Occupational Therapists
• Nurses
• School Guidance Counselors
• School Social Workers
• School Psychologists
• School Administrators
• Teachers
• Special Education Teachers
• School-based Clinicians
• Educational Paraprofessionals
• Other Helping Professionals that work with children