When: Friday, October 8, 2021, 12-3:15 EDT (originally scheduled for May 14, 2021)
Where: On Zoom
Instructor: Yamonte Cooper, EdD, LPCC
Rates: Full Rate – $125, Early Bird Rate before 4/30/21 – $100; Student/Agency Clinician* Rate — $105, Student/Agency Clinician* Early Bird Rate before 4/30/21 — $85; Equity Rate** available (base of $25)
Additional Rate for CEs: $20
CEs: 3 CEs approved for LMFTs, LICSWs, LMHCs, and Lic. Psychologists
Target Audience: Supervisors and Supervisors-in-Training who are Marriage & Family Therapists, Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Psychologists
Level: Intermediate
Clinical supervision serves the two primary goals of increased supervisee competence and the enhancement of psychotherapy outcomes. Failing to combat racism is racism. Antiracism supervision is an active form of supervision that takes an explicit stance against racism in its many forms and manifestations (e.g., individual, institutional, and systemic) including in the supervisory process/relationship. Antiracism supervision is a proactive and responsive evidence-based approach to racial discrimination, racial microaggressions, racial biases, and racism that affects the physical and mental health of those groups targeted and victimized. The intended goal of anti-racism supervision is to ameliorate suffering through the dismantling of anti-Black racism and white supremacist ideology and its many permutations. Antiracism supervision requires action beyond cultural competence and humility. This workshop will provide supervisors and supervisors-in-training with an introduction to antiracism supervision.
Participants should have working knowledge of racism. This workshop is for supervisors and supervisors-in-training but open to supervisees and other clinicians.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be better able to:
- Describe two core tenets of antiracism supervision.
- Analyze two historical antecedents that led to the sociopolitical construction of race.
- Identify two stages of white identity development.
Schedule (all times in EDT)
12-12:05pm Introductions
12:05-1pm Tenets of antiracism supervision; small group exercise; discussion
1-1:55pm The construction of race; small group exercise; discussion
1:55-2:10pm Break
2:10-3:05 Stages of white identity development; small group exercise; discussion
3:05-3:15pm Summary, questions, closing comments & evaluations
Dr. Yamonte Cooper is a Professor of Counseling at El Camino College, adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Antioch University, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), National Certified Counselor (NCC), ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT) & Supervisor, Certified Gottman Therapist, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (CST). He specializes in working with couples, trauma, sexual dysfunctions, gender & sexual identity, depression & anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality issues, grief, and other mental health problems.
He is the author of the forthcoming book Racial Trauma and African-American Men (Routledge) and co-editor of the forthcoming book Black Couples Therapy: Clinical Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press). Further, as a Fulbright scholar, Dr. Cooper exchanged best practices in career counseling and development in Germany and has exchanged best practices with higher education institutions in Botswana. He can be reached at dryamontecooper.com.
*Agency Clinician/Student Rate: We offer this discounted rate to enable students and clinicians working in community mental health settings on a full-time basis to be able to participate. Group practices are not eligible.
**Equity Rate: This registration option is for participants with historical/institutional barriers to access. Please choose equity pricing only if you are a member of one or more historically marginalized communities.
This activity is certified by the New England Association for Family and Systemic Therapy (NEAFAST) on behalf of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LMFT professional continuing education.
This activity is certified by the The Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association (MaMHCA) on behalf of the Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LMHC/LPC professional continuing education.
This activity is certified by the The National Association of Social Workers Massachusetts Chapter (NASW-MA) on behalf of the Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health & Human Services Professions for LICSW/LCSW professional continuing education.
This activity is certified by Amego, Inc. (DBA Amego Prepare) on behalf of the American Psychological Association for Licensed Psychologists.
NOTE: It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their state boards to determine CE requirements and rules of reciprocity, i.e. to assess whether out-of-state and/or APA-approved certificates can be accepted.
This program is being offered independent of any commercial support or conflict of interest. Clinicians with any level of experience are welcome to participate.