Beyond the Status Quo: A Counselors Role in Advocacy with Microaggressions, Mental Health Disparities, and Racial Trauma

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All Level
1.5 NBCC Hours
Estimated 1.5-Hour Workload
Accessible for 180 days

Description

Shon D. Smith, EdD, LMHC, LCAS-A, CRC presents this pre-recorded 90 minute webinar. Microaggressions are statements, actions, or incidences of indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group (Pierce, 1970). These small, often unintentional acts of racism are most likely impacting you more than you know. This presentation will address and explore microaggressions in counseling and advocacy spaces, race-based mental health disparities, and racial trauma systemically (Hernandez et al., 2020; Lima et al., 2020; Williams et al., 2017).

What You Will Learn

Upon successful completion of this activity, you will be able to:

Identify professional counselor’s role as a multicultural and social justice counselor and advocate
Identify the three forms of microaggressions and the implications on mental health
Develop an advocacy plan on how to impact microaggressions, mental health disparities and racial trauma as a professional counselor

Faculty Bio

Shon Smith

Professional Counselor, Clinical Supervisor, Advocate, and Leader. Serves youth, adolescents, and adults of all ages. Provides individual, couples, family, and group counseling sessions to a diverse clientele. Utilizes an integrative counseling approach that is most heavily influenced by the rational emotive behavioral therapy and structural family therapy approaches to counseling in a multicultural and social justice context. Provides clinical supervision and consultation to pre-service and professional counselors and other helping professionals. Educator and advocate in the counseling and the counseling delivery profession.

Dr. Shon Smith has been a professional counselor for over 25 years, a clinical supervisor for 22 years, and a Counselor Educator for 21 years and currently sits on the faculty of the Department of Counseling at North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University. His primary research interests are in counselor education program design and evaluation, use of technology in counselor education curriculum, multicultural & social justice issues in community mental health & counselor programs, clinical supervision, leadership and advocacy competency development, the intersection of mental health public policy, mental health disparities gap, intimate partner violence prevention & relapse prevention and working with military personnel and families.

A Veteran, SSG Smith has been deployed to Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, and stateside. He has conducted several humanitarian missions in Central and South America as a Combat Medic and received a Bronze Star and other military awards for his service.

Dr. Smith has served the counseling professional in several leadership roles on a state, regional and national level through elected office, committee involvement.

Dr. Smith received his doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision with a focus in Marriage and Family Therapy, a master’s degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Rehabilitation Counseling and School Counseling and a bachelor’s in criminal justice.

Accreditation

Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4546. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Walden University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Successful completion of this micro-course provides 1.5 NBCC clock hours; partial credit will not be offered.

ACEP contact information:

100 Washington Ave. S Suite 1210, Minneapolis MN, 55401
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.waldenu.edu