Indigenous Mental Health, Complex Racial Trauma & Attachment
Indigenous Mental Health, Complex Racial Trauma & Attachment
Original price was: $3,840.00.$3,540.00Current price is: $3,540.00. inc. GST
Dr Tracy Westerman’s ‘Indigenous Mental Health, Complex Racial Trauma & Attachment’
Indigenous Psychological Services (IPS) has been at the forefront of research, development and delivery of cultural competency programs since 1998.
A three day event on INDIGENOUS MENTAL HEALTH, COMPLEX RACIAL TRAUMA & ATTACHMENT
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INDIGENOUS MENTAL HEALTH, COMPLEX RAcial TRAUMA & ATTACHMENT
OVER 50,000 PEOPLE HAVE NOW ATTENDED DR WESTERMAN'S KEYNOTES AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS
3 DAYS - from 9 AM – 4 PM
- PERTH - August 12th to 14th 2025
$3,840 per person
As a multi-award winning psychologist and proud Njamal woman, Dr Westerman understands the difficulties practitioners face when working interculturally with Aboriginal clients, and the complex intersectionality of mental health, complex racial trauma and attachment. With over 50,000 people who have attended her workshops over the last two decades she would arguably be one of the most in demand trainers in Australia. Her success comes from her unique ability to combine theory with practice and the countless number of highly complex clients and communities she has worked with through the healing journey. Her work in this area is seminal across multiple areas and you will walk away from this workshop a better practitioner for the experience. This training has evidence of improving cultural competencies of participants
Participants will:
- Become accredited in the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist for Youth (WASC-Y) for Youth aged 13-17 and the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist for Adults (WASC-A) – the only uniquely developed, culturally co-designed and clinically validated tools in Australia. These tools are now digital – meaning you can screen for risk with your phone!
- Complete the Aboriginal Mental Health Cultural Competency Profile (CCP: Westerman, 2003) which provides a baseline of cultural competencies and generates a cultural supervision plan
- Become accredited in the Acculturation Scale for Aboriginal Australians
- Become accredited in the Acculturative Stress Scale for Aboriginal Australians
- Receive pre‐workshop reading materials with a participant workbook (over 200 pages)
- Receive comprehensive pre reading material prior to the workshop
Workshop is fully catered with morning tea, lunch & afternoon tea. Receive an extensive participant workbook
Topics covered include:
- How to 'close the gap' across Indigenous mental health, incarceration, child removals, suicide and educational outcomes - how the gaps are as unacceptable as they are in defining the problem and focusing prevention efforts
- How to ensure ‘cultural compatibility’ and minimise the impact of common client‐practitioner barriers
- What is cultural competency and how has it been defined? What are the core components of cultural competence and how to ensure it as a practitioner
- Other Race Effect and the Racial Empathy Gap - understanding racial neuroscience and how to address racism and cultural competence using this and the stages of behavioural change model
- Assessing and working with culture‐bound syndromes - Dr Westerman's publication on culture bound syndromes won the APS Almetrics Award for the biggest reach of a published paper in Australian Psych Journals
- A model of culturally competent assessment
- Determining the relevance of cultural identity in assessment and intervention (this includes accreditation in the Acculturation Scale for Aboriginal Australians listed above)
- How we can 'treat cultural identity' and why it is a more important focus that risk factors (that cannot always be altered)
- Black Identity Formation and how this model makes sense of identity conflicts that Aboriginal clients present with.
- Culture Bound Depression – how to assess and treat from a clinical and cultural best practice treatment perspective
- The link between Depression and Suicide in Aboriginal People
- Cultural Grieving and spiritual visits – understanding unresolved cultural grief and when clinical and/or cultural intervention is implicated
- Understanding the clinical difference between self‐harm and cultural ‘sorry’ cutting
- Post‐Traumatic Stress – cultural impacts on assessment and treatment. How racism compounds the trauma experience- racial trauma/trauma and complex trauma – what is the difference?
- Assessing the impacts of racism, marginalization as hopelessness and helplessness for Aboriginal people at risk of suicide (this includes accreditation in the Acculturative Stress Scale for Aboriginal Australians listed above)
- Understanding cultural attachment theory and how to use these differences to address the intergenerational transmission of trauma
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Location & Date | PERTH, 12th to 14th August 2025 |
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