Culturally Inclusive, Trauma-Informed Care with Older Adults
This certificate program offers 6 CE credits, and a certificate of completion are available upon completion.
Dates & Times:
Day 1: Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024
10:00 AM–1:15 PM Pacific Time | 1:00 PM–4:15 PM Eastern Time
Day 2: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024
10:00 AM–1:15 PM Pacific Time | 1:00 PM–4:15 PM Eastern Time
Format:
Live Seminar
Not available On Demand
Price:
ASA Member Rate: $150*
Non-Member Rate: $225*
A yearly ASA membership is $275 for individuals and $100 for retired professionals & students. ASA also offers Organizational Membership. Learn more about membership here.
*This offering is non-refundable.
Certificates & CEs:
Continuing Education Credits & Certificate of Completion: 6 CE Credits are offered for this program through the Center for Mental Health & Aging (CMHA). Participants will need to complete a process with Center for Mental Health & Aging (CMHA) to earn their CE credits, certificate and badge, which will be issued by CMHA, and participants may put this on their websites and email signatures if they wish (this is in addition to CE certificates).
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Description:
Approximately 90% of older adults have experienced a traumatic event, and these experiences can have lasting effects on their well-being (Bryant et al., 2017). It is worth noting that PTSD symptoms in older adults may manifest differently than in younger populations (Bryant et al., 2017).
Recognizing the unique impact of trauma on older adults, specifically minoritized older adults, is essential for providing compassionate and culturally responsive care. Trauma in the context of their intersecting identities can have a profound and lasting impact on their well-being across the lifespan (Bryant et al., 2017).
Trauma-informed care is an approach that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma and seeks to address it by creating a safe, empowering, and healing environment for patients (O’Donnell et al., 2017). Cultural humility, on the other hand, emphasizes the need for healthcare providers to approach patients with an open and respectful attitude, recognizing that each patient’s cultural background experiences and beliefs shape their health and well-being (O’Donnell et al., 2017). These frameworks share a common goal of promoting patient-centered care that is sensitive to individual needs and experiences.
This 6-hour workshop is designed for healthcare and senior care providers working with older adults. In this interactive workshop, participants will discover the impact of traumatic stress on health and well-being, deepen their understanding of racism-based trauma, and identify how it impacts minoritized individuals across the lifespan, learn to apply the principles of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) and cultural humility, and gain tools for implementing culturally responsive, TIC in social service and senior care settings.
In this training, participants will:
- Learn the basics of trauma, including trauma theory, prevalence of trauma among older adults, and how trauma impacts physical and mental health over the life span.
- Discover trauma screening tools for healthcare and senior care systems.
- Gain insight into the principles of TIC as defined by SAMHSA.
- Learn how to apply TIC in healthcare, senior care, and home-based settings.
- Explore methods for integrating anti-oppression, cultural humility, and equity and ways to ensure quality healthcare and senior care for all.
- Gain strategies for building psychological safety and reducing the risk of vicarious trauma or secondary stress for yourself and for your workforce.
Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate 3 ways in which older adults may be more vulnerable to post-traumatic stress reactions.
- Describe racism-based trauma and identify how it impacts minoritized individuals across the lifespan.
- List the 6 principles of TIC as defined by SAHMSA, 2014.
- Define cultural humility and the benefits of integrating cultural humility into TIC.
- Apply TIC and Cultural Humility principles in senior care settings using vignettes.
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Event Schedule:
Day 1–Oct. 16, 2024:
1:00–2:30 pm EST Cultural Humility, Equity, and TIC (90 min)
- Differentiate between Cultural Competence, Humility, and Equity, including the 5 principles of Cultural Humility.
- Describe links between TIC and Cultural Humility.
- Lay out the benefits of integrating TIC and Cultural Humility.
- Understand health disparities for marginalized/minoritized populations (those with gender differences, disabilities, those who are LGTBQ+, non-English speakers, from migrant communities, and older) and the intersections therein.
2:30–2:45 Break (15 min)
2:45–4:15 Trauma Basics (90 min)
- Trauma basics and general theory: what is trauma and how does it manifest?
- Different types of traumatic experiences.
- Understanding trauma triggers.
- Racism-based trauma and minority stress: what is it and how it impacts people across the lifespan, including the cumulative effects of racism-related stress.
- How trauma impacts the body and health conditions (physical and mental health) across the lifespan.
- Trauma and unique considerations related to people living with chronic medical conditions.
- Prevalence of trauma among older adults.
- Trauma and unique considerations when working with older adults.
- The role of trauma in suicidal behavior.
- Importance of the role of resilience in older adults.
- Trauma screening tools for healthcare and senior care systems.
Day 2–Oct. 17, 2024:
1:00–2:30 pm EST—6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) (90 min)
- Review the 6 Principles of TIC (SAMHSA, 2014).
- Benefits of TIC.
- Managing resistance to TIC.
- Applying TIC in healthcare settings, senior care settings, home-based settings.
2:30–2:45 pm EST Break (15 min)
2:45–4:15 pm TIC in practice (90 min)
- Framework for having difficult conversations.
- How to respond to complex interactions in which trauma may be playing a role.
- How to start a conversation about the recommendation for mental health care and how to refer.
- How to apologize when you make a misstep.
- The impact of trauma on healthcare providers to define secondary traumatic stress and vicarious trauma.
- Strategies to deal with secondary stress or vicarious trauma.
- Explore one’s own experiences with trauma, focusing on the ways in which trauma impacts one’s work.
- Tools to engage in a trauma-informed reflective practice.
- How to care for yourself and create psychological safety among your team when providing TIC.
On Aging Institute Faculty:
Regina Koepp, PsyD, ABPP is a board-certified clinical psychologist, clinical geropsychologist, and founder and director of the Center for Mental Health & Aging. She is the lead medical psychologist at University of Vermont Medical Center, where she provides Trauma-Informed Care to a medically ill population and advises multidisciplinary medical teams on providing Trauma-Informed Care.
Dr. Koepp is creator and host of the Psychology of Aging Podcast and a contributing writer at Psychology Today and Psychotherapy Networker, where she discusses aging mental health and aging sexual health. She has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Katie Couric Media, News Nation, and other national periodicals.
Dr. Koepp is a sought-after speaker on the topics of mental health and aging, cultural humility in working with minoritized older adults, sexual health and aging, and resilience.
Prior to founding the Center for Mental Health & Aging, Dr. Koepp was an assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, vice chair of the Georgia Psychological Association Ethics Committee, and staff psychologist at the Atlanta VA Health Care System, where she provided direct patient care and consultation on an Older Adult Outpatient Mental Health team for more than a decade.
Dr. Koepp earned her doctorate at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Emory University Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, where she won the Richard W. Morrell Community Commitment Award.
Telsie A. Davis, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with 11 peer-reviewed publications; four book chapters; and hundreds of hours of education and training delivered through international, national, state, and local talks and workshops in the areas of evidence-based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies; and culturally responsive and empirically supported treatments for PTSD and co-morbid substance use.
Dr. Davis earned a BS in Applied Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Georgia State University, and completed pre- and postdoctoral training at Emory University School of Medicine (ESOM). At the Atlanta VA, she works as a psychologist in Mental Health Specialty Services, co-chairs the APA-Accredited Psychology Training Program’s Diversity Rotation, and co-chairs the Mental Health Service Line DEI Committee. At Emory School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, she serves as an assistant professor and Implicit Bias facilitator, and was a past assistant vice chair of Faculty Development for DEI.
Dr. Telsie Davis is also the founder and director of the Cultural Equity Institute, an organization whose mission is to eradicate racial and cultural inequities in mental health care through education, consultation, and advocacy so the U.S. mental health care system can help every client thrive at their fullest potential.
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CE Information
Social Workers
Center for Mental Health & Aging, #1801, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The Center for Mental Health & Aging maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/25/2023–03/25/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
Psychologists
Center for Mental Health & Aging is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Mental Health & Aging maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Counselors
The Center for Mental Health & Aging (CMHA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7230. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Center for Mental Health & Aging is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Care Managers
The Center for Mental Health & Aging is approved by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers (NACCM) as a continuing education provider, #21-905CMHA. This activity is approved for 6 CMC contact hours.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs)
The Center for Mental Health & Aging (CMHA), Provider #1032775, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for California LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. CMHA maintains responsibility for this program/course and its contents.
The Center for Mental Health & Aging is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. In many state licensing jurisdictions, APA approved continuing education programs qualify for LMFT CE credits.
Additional Notes about CE credits:
Registrant is responsible for ensuring that CE credits meet the criteria for their own jurisdiction requirements.
Content and materials in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession’s standards.
FAQs
How Do I Earn CE Credits?
Participants will have their participation registered through the the Center for Mental Health & Aging. To earn continuing education (CE) credits you must complete the following steps for on demand/pre-recorded courses:
Step 1: Attend 100% of the course. Attendance is tracked via the online platform.
Step 2: Successfully pass the course post-test (for pre-recorded courses only; you have a total of 3 attempts to pass the post-test).
Step 3: Complete the Course Program Evaluation & Attestation
Step 4: Download Your Certificate
Certificates of completion will be emailed immediately following submission of electronic survey and available for download in the course platform.
How Do I Make a Request for Accessibility?
If you require speech-to-text captioning for this event, please contact us at least 5 business days before 10/16/2024 so we can accommodate your needs.
Center for Mental Health & Aging is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities and will conduct all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists, NASW ethical principles for social workers, etc. If participants have special needs, reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate them. Please contact support@cmhaging.com with questions, concerns or to request special accommodations.
What Is Your Grievance Policy?
CMHA will respond to grievances in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner. Grievances may be submitted by course participants in writing to support@cmhaging.com. CMHA’s complete Grievance Procedure will be provided upon request. You may request Grievance Procedure by emailing support@cmhaging.com.
What Computer Systems Do I Need to Complete Online Courses?
The following system requirements help to reduce tech problems:
- Operating Systems: Windows XP or higher, MacOS 9 or higher, Android 4.0 or higher.
- Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher, Google Chrome, Firefox 10.0 or higher.
- Broadband Internet connection: Cable, High-speed DSL & any other medium that is internet accessible.
- Webinar software: Zoom is used to deliver live, synchronous programs.
Who do I contact for help?
Please reach out to institute@asaging.org with any questions.