TRAINING 2: BLACK IDENTITY FORMATION and culture bound syndromes

TRAINING 2: BLACK IDENTITY FORMATION and culture bound syndromes
TRAINING 2: BLACK IDENTITY FORMATION and culture bound syndromes
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TRAINING 2: BLACK IDENTITY FORMATION and culture bound syndromes

Original price was: $880.00.Current price is: $800.00. inc. GST

TRAINING 2: BLACK IDENTITY FORMATION and culture bound syndromes
Indigenous Psychological Services (IPS) has been at the forefront of research, development and delivery of cultural competency programs since 1998.

Earlybird registrations (8 weeks prior) enjoy a discounted rate.

How do I receive the discount?

Simply book and pay 8 weeks or more prior to the event date to receive the discounted price.

Groups of 5 or more receive an additional 5% discount. To receive this discount, simply click “Payment on Invoice” in the checkout and we will issue you with an invoice via email.

Terms and Conditions

In these terms and conditions, ‘you’ means the person attending (virtually or in-person) the workshop named in the registration or substituted in accordance with the terms and conditions, and ‘paying agency’ means the person or agency responsible for payment named in the registration.

REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT
1. By submitting this registration, you and the paying agency will be regarded as having made a firm and irrevocable booking, and agree to these terms and conditions. You warrant that you have the authority of the agency to submit the registration and to bind the agency to these terms and conditions.
2. Once the registration has been submitted, a tax invoice will be issued to the paying agency, which will be responsible for payment of the workshop fees named in your registration form. These are payable within 14 days of the issue date of the invoice, and funds must be cleared at least 2 full business days before training commences.
3. In the event that training is booked in the last week prior to commencement, payment must be made by credit card.

SUBSTITUTIONS & TRANSFERS TO OTHER WORKSHOPS
4. Places are not refundable or changeable to another workshop location within 21 days of Workshop date, however, places are able to be transferred to another participant from your agency to attend in your place. You must notify the agency in writing at the earliest opportunity and at least 72 hours before the workshop begins so our administration team can process the transfer.
5. Transfer of workshop registrations to a different date or location at least 21 days out may be made only if the workshops both take place in the same calendar year. If you wish to transfer your registration to a different workshop date or location, you must notify the agency in writing at least 21 days before the workshop from which you wish to transfer begins.
6. Workshops can only be transferred ‘like to like’ – meaning that you are only able to transfer an ‘in person workshop’ to an ‘in person workshop’ or a ‘virtual workshop’ to a ‘virtual workshop’ once registration occurs. This is due to the costs associated of hosting both training formats in tandem for our clients.

CANCELLATION
7. In the event that for any reason you cancel your registration, workshop fees are not refundable. IPS acknowledges personal circumstances may prevent you from attending (including medical conditions, emergencies, transport difficulties, severe weather conditions or other events beyond the control of IPS), but you and the paying agency acknowledge the logistics of event management prevents IPS from assuming responsibility for these contingencies.
8. Whilst IPS will endeavour to ensure all workshops proceed, IPS reserves the right to cancel workshops for any reason, including insufficient registrations. If workshops are cancelled by IPS, full refunds of workshop fees only will be provided. IPS will not be liable to you or the paying agency for any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred as a result of the cancellation. You or any substituted delegate are strongly advised to book fully refundable or variable airfares and accommodation for in-person workshops.

CHANGES AND POSTPONEMENT
9. IPS reserves the right to alter the workshop program, venue and timing at any time. IPS will not be liable for any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by you or the paying agency in the event of it being necessary, for whatever reason, to change the location or timing of the workshop.
10. Whilst IPS will use every endeavour to hold the workshop at the venue and on the dates specified in the registration form, any refund of registration fees requested as a result of changes to the workshop program, venue or scheduled workshop dates will be at the discretion of IPS.

 

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Description

TRAINING 2: BLACK IDENTITY FORMATION and culture bound syndromes

- VIRTUAL - Thursday 10th April 2025

$880 per person

$800 per person early bird

5% discount for group bookings

This module explores the process of developing robust cultural identity, based on the work of Helms and adapted by Westerman (in preparation). The model is then combined with the identity development work of Erickson to explain the additional layers of complexity in the development process of ‘black, marginalised’ groups. It explains who identity impacts not just at an individual level but also at a whole of group level and is explained by collective fawn trauma – a unique explanation of how identity for Aboriginal people is often about ‘ group’ more than the ‘self’. The module will walk through a number of case studies with Aboriginal clients and teach practitioners to ‘treat’ cultural identity.

This module will then guide participants through the evidence for Culture Bound Syndromes drawing heavily on the 2021 Australian first paper by Dr Westerman on Culture Bound Syndromes. This paper provided the first Australian evidence base of the cultural manifestations of unwellness and ensures that assessment can not only incorporate cultural elements of treatment into existing clinical frameworks but also ensure culturally and clinically valid assessment. The module explores several concepts around cultural engagement with identity and with cultural difference to ensure culturally competent assessment and practice with Aboriginal clients. The concept of cultural identity and its role in suicide and mental health risk assessment as well as prevention and treatment efforts. It explores identity at individual level, providing practitioners with awareness of the need to explore this as a primary aspect of client engagement.

This Session:

  • from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm (with breaks)
  • 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm The afternoon session (until 4:00 pm) is an open Q & A session on complex clients that participants are able to ask of Dr Westerman. This will be a moderated session with questions sent in prior to the workshop.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Learn about the limitations of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) in the mental health assessment of Aboriginal Australians
  • Learn about culture-bound syndromes and their evidence in Aboriginal Australian populations
  • Learn how to incorporate cultural factors into diagnostic formulation through Dr Westerman’s work that provides a critical analysis of the DSM-IV Outline for Cultural Formulation (“OCF”) for the Aboriginal Australian context and walks participants through these steps with an applied case example of a young Aboriginal client experiencing spiritual visits
  • Learn the difference between cultural grieving and how to distinguish this from clinical disorders of psychoses and schizophrenia
  • Participants will learn about individual difference in beliefs, cultural practices and identity formation
  • Understand cultural connection and disconnection and its role in mental ill health and suicide prevention
  • Recognise the importance of developing comfort with discussing cultural identity as a critical starting point to client assessment and ‘treatment’ planning.
  • Understand the value of assessing individual beliefs at the first point of engagement
  • Learn how to engage with Aboriginal clients in discussion about cultural identity
  • Learn the important components of cultural identity and what research confirms
  • Participants will be accredited in the Acculturation Scale for Aboriginal Australians (ASAA: Westerman, 2003) as a method of assessment
  • Learn how to use the ASAA for engagement, psychological assessment (cognitive and mental health), and intervention programs
  • Learn about the different theoretical models of Acculturation including Assimilation; Separation; Integration and Marginalisation and the relationship with mental health outcome with Aboriginal people
  • The use of the ASAA in an applied case study – assessing the difference between psychoses and being sung/cursed in assessment.
  • Participants will learn about Helms Black Identity Formation model (adapted by Westerman) to understand the relationship between culture and mental health / suicide risk
  • Learn how Erickson’s work into identity formation provides a useful process of understanding Black identify formation
  • Explain Black Identity Formation and its adaptation for Aboriginal clients in applied case studies
  • Explain the challenges in cultural identity as a personal process and how to address this therapeutically
  • Explain how the model of black identity formation has critical links with racial trauma responses and develop strategies to address these client challenges
  • Understand how to develop cultural treatment plans in accordance with different developmental and black identity formation stages.
  • Why do clients ‘reject’ cultural identity and how to work with identity rejection.

You can undertake these workshops as ‘stand alone workshops’
However: if you would like to be accredited in the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist – Youth and Adults which are about to be launched in digital form you will need to do all FIVE modules. This accreditation will also enable you to access the associated Cultural Treatment Plan program and Client Cultural Interview Process.

Additional information

Date of virtual workshop:

Thursday 10th April 2025
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