Understanding Race-Based, Historical, and Intergenerational Trauma in Nursing Facility Residents

March 19, 2024

2 – 3 p.m. ET

ACCME CREDITS WILL BE OFFERED.

Nursing facility residents are impacted by historical and intergenerational trauma that goes deep and wide for many racially minoritized groups in the United States. Whether the trauma is recognized openly or tucked deeply into the subconscious, it is often characterized by emotional, physical, and psychological wounds that bleed through generations and across one’s lifespan. In this session, nursing facility staff will gain an awareness to consider the “generations-later” mental health effects of African American slavery, the Jewish Holocaust, the Native American Indian experience, and Latinx immigration trauma that residents may have experienced.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the concepts of historical, race-based, and intergenerational trauma.
  2. Consider the intergenerational and historical trauma experiences of Black, Latinx, and Native Americans.
  3. Discuss how the biology of trauma can negatively impact trust in caregivers.

Speaker: Dr. LaVerne H. Collins, PhD, LPC, LCMHC, NCC

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