Cultural Considerations for Integrating Racial Socialization in TF-CBT for Black Youth & Families
March 4, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 P.M. PT
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TRAINING DETAILS:
This training provides an in-depth exploration of how racial socialization can be integrated into Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) to enhance culturally responsive care for Black youth and families healing from interpersonal and racial trauma.
Participants will first reflect on their personal identities and experiences to understand how these factors influence their professional practice. The training will introduce the concept of racial socialization as a protective and promotive factor, emphasizing its role in enhancing treatment outcomes such as resilience, academic engagement, and reduced anxiety and peer conflict.
The second part of the training focuses on practical strategies for incorporating racial socialization into TF-CBT components, including:
- Building therapeutic trust and alliance
- Assessing racial stress and trauma
- Engaging parents and caregivers in the therapeutic process
- Psychoeducation to normalize and validate race-related stressors
- Relaxation techniques like deep breathing and progressive muscle relaxation
- Affect identification and emotion regulation skills
Participants will receive concrete tools and resources for applying racial socialization within core TF-CBT components such as Cognitive Restructuring, Trauma Narratives, In-vivo Exposure, and Conjoint Parent-Child Sessions. Emphasis will be placed on culturally affirming practices that validate Black clients’ experiences while promoting healing and empowerment. Time will be dedicated for discussion and Q&A to support practical implementation in clinical settings.
Learners will be able to:
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- Define racial socialization and its protective and promotive impact on treatment outcomes for Black youth
- Implement 3 evidence-based culturally affirming treatment strategies with Black youth and families
- Utilize at least 3 practical tools for engaging families in the racial socialization process
Who should attend: Therapists/practitioners who are providing direct psychological services (CBT, TF-CBT) to Black youth and families.
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MEET THE SPEAKER
Dr. Isha W. Metzger is the Founder of Cultural Concepts, LLC, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University, Adjunct and Graduate faculty at the University of Georgia, and Visiting Research Faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Dr. Metzger earned her PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina, completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, and received postdoctoral training at both the National Crime Victims Center and Yale University.
As Director of The EMPOWER Lab at GSU, Dr. Metzger focuses on reducing mental health disparities through “Engaging Minorities in Prevention, Outreach, Wellness, Education, & Research.” Dr. Metzger’s systematic research program is aimed at healing culturally specific risk factors like racial discrimination through utilizing protective factors like racial socialization to improve cognitive and behavioral outcomes for Black clients receiving evidence-based services for interpersonal and racial stress and trauma in “real world” settings.
As a licensed clinical psychologist and trainer for Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dr. Metzger offers instruction, supervision, training, and consultation to students, practitioners, client-facing staff, and organizations on the culturally sensitive delivery of evidence-based treatments for underserved individuals seeking mental health treatment for a range of problems including anxiety, depression, school disengagement and behavioral difficulties, PTSD, racial trauma, and substance misuse. Dr. Metzger is an advocate for Black youth and families, and she is personally and professionally committed to amplify and utilize the individual and family strengths of Black youth to heal and thrive in the face of racism.
