Working with Asian Diasporic Communities: Culturally Responsive Strategies for Treating Intergenerational Trauma and Acculturation Stress

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Monica Band, PhD Related seminars and products

Mindful Healing Counseling Services, LLC

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Dr. Monica P. Band is an award-winning practicing mental health therapist and educator on a mission to make mental health care more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for the next generation. She has dedicated her clinical work to better understanding and facilitating healing dialogues around intergenerational trauma and cultural identity work within her shared communities. Dr. Band has advanced training in utilizing EMDR specifically treating attachment wounds and complex trauma. She provides adjunct instruction for universities, train the trainer workshops, subject matter consultation, and interdisciplinary partnerships to destigmatize mental health for people of color and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Currently, Dr. Band owns Mindful Healing Counseling Services, LLC, a mental health group private practice that serves the D.C. metro area. She obtained her doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision at Marymount University and her master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling at The George Washington University.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Monica Band maintains a private practice. She is a subject matter consultant with The JED Foundation and a subject matter expert with The AAKOMA Project. Dr. Band receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Monica Band has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Identify how historical, sociopolitical, and environmental factors impact the therapeutic relationship.
2. Develop strategies to broach culturally relevant conversations.
3. Facilitate development and exploration of racial identity.
4. Apply the concepts of Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and Racial Identity Development models in session.
5. Summarize the impacts of race, ethnicity and other aspects of privilege and oppression.
6. Utilize somatic strategies in session to address attachment and intergenerational trauma wounds.

Outline

Engaging in the Asian Diaspora Historical Grounding and Cultural Considerations

• Ethical standards for culturally competent practice
• Identify evolving terms of reference for the community
• Overview of common stereotypes and biases
• Barriers to help seeking and social determinants of recent health and mental health statistics

Theories and Case Conceptualization for culturally responsive care

• Understand the historical influences on Asian Diaspora communities on racial identity formation
• Code of ethics
• Challenging stereotypes
• Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and Racial Identity Development models
• Exercise: Strategies provided of questions to ask during intake

Integrative Models in Treatment

• Culturally responsive intake process
• Address attachment and attunement wounds in session
• Explore themes of belonging, identity, and individuation
• Explore themes of familial expectations, assimilation, and acculturation
• Case example: Forming goals with IFS on identity and trauma

Interventions

• Somatic issues and transference
• Introspective exposure
• Narrative: Personification and first-person narrative
• Identify parts: IFS imagining techniques, room techniques, unburdening
• Broaching: Trauma based on Eastern vs. Western parenting
• Case example: Address somatic dysregulation
• Exercise: Value-Based Living

Exploring Themes of Attachment

• Differences in abandonment vs. loss
• Guilt and sacrifice bond
• Ambivalence as a “safe” option for attachment
• Decoding love languages with intergenerational considerations
• Deciphering independence from lack of availability

Overcoming Limitations of the research & Potential Risks

• Diversity within communities limits research and understanding
• Shame, stigma, language barriers impact rates of help seeking
• After-care post sessions to address somatic issues
• Lack of representation within the profession
• Evolving and changing needs

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counsellors
• Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psychiatrists
• Other Mental Health Professionals
• Nurses
• Physicians