Intentional Responses to the COVID and Racism Pandemics and the Role of the Listening Skills
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Cohosted by Carlos Zalaquett, Professor, Pennsylvania State University, and Elizabeth Robey, Publisher, Coherent Digital
Dr. Carlos Zalaquett
President of the Interamerican Society of Psychology
Sociedad Interamerican de Psicología- (SIP).
Professor – Catedrático, Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education, The Pennsylvania State University.
11:00-11:45 AM EST (New York Time)
The Listening Skills: A Relevant Response to the Pandemic Challenges Created by COVID-19 Around the World
The listening skills are a relevant foundation of counseling and psychotherapy. The use of the listening skills is valuable regardless of therapeutic approach. By mastering them and learning a therapy model of interest, all mental health professionals can become empowered to provide culturally sensitive, ethical, neuroscience-supported, and strength-based interventions. Special focus of this presentation will be on the role the listening skills play in response to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Participants will be able to:
Identify the listening skills and their role in counseling and therapy.
Recognize how the listening skills are used by different models of counseling and therapy.
Identify the role that the listening skills play in responses to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Lawrence H. Gerstein, Ball State University George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Psychology-Counseling. Director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.
12:00-12:45 PM EST (New York Time)
COVID-19 and Racial Oppression: The Role of Conflict Prevention and Resolution Skills
Numerous conflicts have emerged among individuals and groups as a result of COVID-19 and the 400-year history of the oppression of blacks in the US. While many mental health professionals possess the skills to assist people with the psychological effects of COVID-19 and racial issues, few have the skills to prevent and resolve these conflicts. This presentation will provide an overview of transformative mediation, created to empower individuals to prevent and resolve conflict. Skills linked to this adapted model including active listening, empathy, respect, finding common ground, and problem solving.
Participants will be able to:
Comprehend the foundational principles of the adapted model of transformative mediation.
Understand the basic steps to prevent and resolve a conflict.
Recognize the relevance of conflict prevention and resolution skills to COVID-19 and the racial problems in the United States.
Dr. Rita Chi-Ying Chung,
Professor Emerita, George Mason University. Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion.
Dr. Fred Bemak, Professor Emeritus, George Mason University. Founder, Counselors Without Borders.
1:00-1:45 PM EST (New York Time)
Social Justice Oriented Culturally Responsive Counseling in the Time of a Racism Pandemic and COVID-19: Transforming a Post-Disaster Model into a Continuous-Disaster Model
Continuous escalation of the racism and COVID-19 pandemics has caused unremitting stress, depression, anxiety, and an accentuation of general mental health problems. Drs. Chung and Bemak will present their Disaster Cross-Cultural Counseling Model developed for work in post-disasters and discuss how effectively to transform it into a continuous-disaster counseling model that is culturally responsive and inclusive of social justice and human rights issues.
Participants will be able to:
Apply a culturally responsive post-disaster mental health counseling intervention model to the coronavirus and racism pandemics.
Understand how social justice and human rights are a foundation for psychologically addressing the coronavirus and racism pandemics.
Dr. Lori Russell-Chapin, Professor of Counselor Education at Bradley University and Co-Director of the Center for Collaborative Brain Research.
3:00-3:45 PM EST (New York Time)
The Need for Social Engagement in This New COVID Era: How Intentionality and Neurocounseling Strengthen the Active Listening Process
During these days of COVID and social unrest, many feel isolated. There is, now more than ever, a human need for social engagement. Dr. Lori Russell-Chapin will discuss the importance of intentionally connecting with others, since many of our typical paralinguistic parameters are hidden. Dr. Russell-Chapin will review the neuroscience of active listening and the brain location involved in this fundamental counseling skill. LORETA brain scans will illustrate brain activation in diaphragmatic breathing, paraphrasing, and reflection in active listening.
Participants will be able to:
Define healthy social engagement.
Label the stages of active listening.
Identify brain regions needed for active listening and calming.
Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji,
Professor of Counseling and Director of the Center for Traumatic Stress Research at Xavier University of Louisiana. Past President of the American Counseling Association.
4:00-4:45 PM EST (New York Time)
Coronavirus, Systemic Police Brutality, Traumatic Stress, and Resilience: Fostering Cultural and Epistemic Justice in Counseling
This presentation offers a nuanced view of culture-centered disaster mental health counseling (C-DMHC) as it applies to the current global health pandemic and systemic police brutality. Special focus will be placed on historical trauma and resilience in marginalized communities and what cultural and epistemic justice interventions can be utilized. Dr. West-Olatunji will discuss the critical aspects of C-DMHC and how to apply those principles in responding to the needs of clients, peers, and students.
Participants will be able to:
Apply culture-centered disaster mental health counseling to the current COVID and racism pandemics.
Better understand historical trauma and resilience within marginalized communities.
Understand the cultural and epistemic justice interventions.
Dr. Martin La Roche, Director of Psychology Training, Boston Children’s Hospital at Martha Eliot (oldest standing community health center in the United States). Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
5:00-5:45 PM EST (New York Time)
Telehealth Child Cultural Psychotherapy During the COVID and Racism Pandemics
Many culturally diverse families are experiencing an enhanced sense of vulnerability as a result of the current COVID and racism pandemics, including an increased exposure to PTSD symptoms, paralyzing depression, and anxiety symptoms. Dr. Martin LaRoche will discuss strategies to ameliorate these issues and empower families to transform unjust socioeconomic conditions. Specific online developmentally and culturally competent interventions from the three phases of Cultural Psychotherapy will be described.
Participants will be able to:
Identify the main characteristics of Cultural Psychotherapy and its three phases.
Identify some of the main problems that culturally diverse children are experiencing because of the COVID and racism pandemics.
Identify online, culturally competent interventions from each of the three phases of Cultural Psychotherapy that can be used with culturally diverse children.
Dr. Allen Ivey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Creator of the Microskills Model.
Dr. Mary Bradford Ivey, Coauthor of Intentional Interviewing and Counseling.
6:00-6:45 PM EST (New York Time)
The Universal Power of the Narrative and Listening
With social distancing in place and mental health services placed online, now more than ever, listening is crucial to improving mental health. Drs. Allen and Mary Ivey will review the Basic Listening Sequence (BLS), a specific listening structure Dr. Allen Ivey created nearly 50 years ago, and how it plays an essential role across all theories in counseling and therapy. Special focus will be on the relationship between neurobiology and stress, and the critical importance of listening skills during the COVID and racism pandemics.
Participants will be able to:
Better understand specific ways to use the BLS in culturally competent ways.
Identify neuroscience/neurobiology findings and how they relate to the BLS.
For questions, please contact Elizabeth Robey, Publisher, Mindscape Commons: erobey@coherentdigital.net