QMED - 2024 Black Health Connect Conference

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THURSDAY, JUNE 5 - 8:30 am - 10:45 am

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 - 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 - 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 - 3:45 pm - 5:45 pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 8:30 am - 10:30 am

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 10:45 am - 12:15 pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 8:30 am - 10:30 am

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 10:45 am - 12:15 pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

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Objective 1: Identify and analyze the prevalent health disparities in Black communities, including heart and mental health, and the socio-economic factors contributing to these issues.

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

The teaching methods used were appropriate to the objectives

If you have additional comments regarding the session or individual speaker(s) - e.g. content issues, teaching ability, credentials or expertise, etc. - please use the space below:

Objective 2: Implement strategies to enhance culturally competent healthcare by recognizing and integrating cultural influences on health behaviors and outcomes

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

The teaching methods used were appropriate to the objectives

Objective 3: Advocate for health policy reforms to address systemic inequities and improve healthcare access and quality for Black populations. 4Apply evidence-based interventions and best practices to prevent and manage chronic diseases disproportionately affecting Black communities using the latest research and guidelines.5.Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration among healthcare providers, community leaders, and policymakers to create a unified approach to tackling health disparities and enhancing Black community health.

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

The teaching methods used were appropriate to the objectives

Recognizing inequality and its impact on family health

Review multidimensional ways inequality becomes part of the body.

Discuss how family therapists can incorporate the questions of health equity and inequity in the family therapy room

Apply skills developed in the group to their own practice

apply these skills to their teaching

apply these skills to their clinical supervision

identify couples’ vulnerability cycles & the neurobiology fueling these cycles

Describe how to work effectively with couple reactivity & offer ways to clients to increase self-regulation & empathy

Discuss strategies for facilitating change by understanding the dynamics of habits and change, including the possibility of neuroplasticity in adulthood.

list at least 3 common problems experienced by veteran couples and families

list at least 3 steps that were taken to meet the challenges of creating and implementing this program

list at least 3 aspects of the therapeutic interventions conducted in this program.

Discuss the needs of transgender and GNC clients

Discuss clinical knowledge about advanced work with trans and GNC clients

Discuss tools for working effectively with families of trans and GNC persons.

Discuss the basic tenets of the “Collaborative Helping” framework

Explain how to participate in evaluating a possible treatment manual

Discuss how an outcome research model might look.

Explain how to dispel distortions/misunderstandings of Bowen theory

Discuss the diversity of use of the theory in clinical practice

Discuss the importance and interconnection of theory as a way of living and a way of practicing professionally.

discuss awareness of caregivers, patients, and rates of morbidity/mortality

describe what resiliency is and how clinicians have helped grow caregiver resiliency while avoiding caregiver burnout

identify ways that clinicians can help grow caregiver resiliency while avoiding caregiver burnout, e.g., assessment in everyday healthcare operations

identify psychosocial detrimental factors for the couple and the quality of attachment during pregnancy and after delivery

identify psychosocial protective factors for the couple and some improving the quality of attachment and father involvement during pregnancy and after delivery

discuss and share experiences on interventions geared to reinforce protective factors and strengthening the family attachment

Discuss how they are personally and professionally affected by the practices of racism, as recipient or as someone who may unintentionally engage in actions and attitudes influenced by dominant racial discourses

engage in authentic and forward-moving multiracial conversations with respect both for their own experience and for the experiences of others with different perspectives and social locations

develop new understandings about how to incorporate a social justice stance into interracial and intraracial transactions in therapeutic, training, and research settings as well a in their personal lives.

Discuss the history of family therapy training

identify the major issues of the contemporary training environment

identify ways they can improve their own training environment.

Discuss how mindfulness promotes intrapersonal and interpersonal attunement

Describe practical relational mindfulness techniques to promote attunement for couples in therapy

List four components of attunement

describe at least 4 specific couple play techniques

Describe an individual story, a couple story & a we-story.

Identify concepts of the two papers

Explaing how to Incorporate mindfulness into their own self-care

Recognize areas of further research and interest

Discuss the regularities that implicated cultural process of Chinese families

identify the most relevant empirical literature regarding pediatric chronic illness.

discuss what family clinicians can offer parents after child diagnosis.

Discuss the impact of migration processes in immigrant families

Explain how to intervene in situations that could profit from change in relationships through the use of technologies of communication

Discuss collective trauma as the injuries to a populations' social, cultural and physical ecologies.

Explain ways of recognizing and promoting resources for recovery at all systemic levels - individual, family, community and society at

Discuss strategies for promoting collective narration of a community's experience and response to collective trauma as an important capacity for recovery.

Explain how structural oppression supports the “school to prison pipeline

Explain how a social justice perspective can be integrated into multiple levels of agency organization: clinical practice, supervision, faculty relationships, and administration

Discuss how a relational epistemology informs justice-oriented practice.

Discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic importance of family relationships in human health and disease from a public health perspective

Discuss practical, standardized tools for defining, screening, and assessing family problems and family violence in a variety of settings

Identify the new DSM-V codes related to Relational Problems and how they may be used in clinical practice and research

list the main objections to DSM by family therapist and family/individual therapists who see human difficulty from lense of oppression, marginalization and abuse of power- and other contexts.

List positive aspects of DSM5 regarding it's inclusion of place for including family in meetings with providers

Discuss alternative initiatives to work 'outside' the DSM, challenge it's being the required mode of describing clients' problems to insurance companies, clinical meetings.

Describe how to increase their awareness of and sensitivity to issues of race, gender and class and their intersections in the practice of couples therapy

Discuss strategic responses by interracial/intercultural couples/families to racism and discrimination

Discuss perceptions and experiences of interracial partners in their own words, challenging common presuppositions in the popular media and the helping professions about these relationships

discuss the impact of loss, trauma, and stress on family relationships

explain the value of involving family support systems for long-term positive outcomes

explain how Invitational Intervention leads to individual & family healing

Discuss the qualities often present in high conflict divorce

Discuss approaches for dealing with parents involved in high conflict divorce

Describe methods of involving children effectively in treatment.

Discuss the experiences of transgender fathers

Identify multiple emotional realities faced by transgender fathers

Discuss skills for supporting transgender fathers in clinical practice

Describe your experiences of undocumented students and their families in face of restricting immigration policies in US

Discuss the impact of social policies into individual and family dynamics involving these undocumented youth

Recognize the importance of learning from the community to conceptualize theoretical and practice clinical frameworks

Explain our clinical process to conducting psychosocial assessments.

Provide a brief explanation of what the process looks like for the client.

Discuss the clinicians role in the process.

Discuss the challenge of split loyalties for adoptees.

List the four emerging themes and how they impact female adoptees.

Explain how female adoptees negotiate relationships with both mothers.

Discuss the connection between socio-contextual factors such as gender, power and infidelity and how this relates to treatment.

Explore the role vulnerability plays in infidelity recovery.

Discuss interventions necessary when treating affairs that help couples move toward mutually supportive relationships.

describe concepts of mattering and marginality and their application in child welfare

describe ways in which marginality is encouraged by the broader organizational culture of urgency, fear and blame

Discuss some specific supervisory practices to counter-act this and to "matter" workers

Discuss specific strategies to connect cross-culturally

Discuss the applicability of these strategies to their clinical work

Explain the clinical experiences of foreign born therapists in the U.S.

Describe the importance of preparing behavioral health trainees to work in medical settings

Discuss a curriculum for pre- and post-doctoral trainees in Medical Family Therapy

Identify core competencies and processes for evaluating trainees

Discuss the richness of relational understandings, including examples of PIPs, TIPs, HIPs, WIPs, DIPs, and SCIPs

Differentiate co-constructive vs deconstructive TIPs, and TIP attempts vs TIP accomplishments

Discuss to heuristic questions derived from SCIPs that bring socio-cultural discourses related to parentism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, classism, and other social justice issues into the therapy room.

Discuss the effectiveness of using a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach with children dealing with domestic violence (DV).

Explain how to incorporate SFBT techniques in play therapy genograms to set goals and elicit exceptions with children dealing with DV.

Explaing the game Battleship as a SFBT adapted play genogram while inviting and engaging children in DV treatment.

describe the effects of racist social policy on family life and wellbeing

describe the effects of racism on social policy

describe the social policy implications of research on social determinants of health.

Discuss their own helping paradigms and consider ‘alternative ones’

explore what happens when community members are invited to become active participants in improving the health of their families

identify ways they can form partnerships with clients, families and communities.

Discuss differences and commonalities in military and civilian cultures that influence how we intervene therapeutically

provide therapy and support for military families in our own communities.

Discuss a few brief mindfulness strategies used to stay grounded and present when they find work challenging

Discuss your own and learn new strategies and ideas for incorporating mindfulness awareness practices with the couple presented

describe two ways of integrating mindfulness awareness practices that they learned from Interest Group co-leaders.

list some of the similarities with and differences from recoupling at younger ages

identify specific issues for stepfamilies that begin in later life stages

Discuss treatment strategies and clinical pitfalls in working with these stepfamily systems.

understand the extend and roots of the current inequalities in mental healthcare

Discuss new practices of professional exchange and collaboration between (non-medical) family therapists and more biologically oriented psychiatrists

Explain how to put into practice improvements in mental healthcare for people diagnosed with major mental illnesses, especially regarding involvement of families in the treatment of loved ones.

identify 5 strategies to enter into institutions and teaching environments as a learner, especially environments very different from your usual cultural, economic, and “racial” contexts

identify 5 collaborative processes to co-create trainings in family therapy with all participants while integrating in the social identities of all

self-reflect in three key ways on one’s own strengths and areas of development as a teacher/facilitator, particularly in relationship to joining across areas of difference.

Discuss the construct of “power over,” and be able to recognize examples of it

Discuss the construct of “power with,” and be able to recognize examples of it

Discuss the construct of “power to,” and be able to recognize examples of it.

Explain how to think about “masculinity” as a complex of the experiencing self, which cognitively mediates sexual expression, conflict management, and emotional availability

Discuss the cultural contexts of this development, and how those shape the experience of being “man enough”

Discuss clinical approaches to complex problems organized around the simple ideas of “winning and losing.”

Explaing how to recognize the effects of power dynamics in heterosexual couple relationships

Discuss what narrative therapists call “the absent but implicit”

identify more preferred ways that couples might perform their lives.

Discuss the new family-theory relevant ideas not currently in the literature

explore how to best nurture, critique, expand and contextualize new ideas

apply these processes to theory development.

Discuss cross-generational transmission of ideas and discoveries in the field of family therapy

Describe critical moments of the history of the field of family therapy

Discuss the history of family therapy with the history of the pioneers who have shaped the field.

Discuss family effects for prisoners

Discuss prison effects on the family

Discuss a family healing course designed for use in prisons

Conceptualize within seven domains of teaching/learning using Tomm's IPcsope.

Create dialogue regarding the interactions of dominant gendered discourses in personal and clinical settings

Cultivate understanding that male power and privilege are social constructed and can be re-constructed.

Explain how to use Norman Paul's ideas for helping family members deal with unresolved mourning

Discuss using the creative video techniques of Norman Paul

explore issues of loss in their family therapy cases

Discuss a systemic conceptual models in terms of treating addicitons

Describe sobriety treatment, AA/NA, and drug courts

explore the necessity of challenging and accountability in addictions treatment

Discuss obstacles that sometimes adversely influence familial harmony and interfere with Black Americans? engagement in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs).

Explain approaches for framing MBIs in culturally-flexible manner, while considering Black American cultural values and day-to-day stressors.

Explain how relational financial therapy techniques can improve systemic therapy practices for practitioners and improve the financial wellbeing of clients

Explain how therapists can become involved with and train in financial counseling practices

Explain how to utilize common financial therapy interventions

Identify the impact of oppression on families.

explore changes in the perimeters that define family and identify the systemic and intrapsychic resources in evolving family structures

Did this program improve your Skill or Strategy in your role or contribution as a member of the healthcare team?

Yes

Please explain how, or why not?

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Was the educational content scientifically sound?

If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?

Was the mode of education effective to learning?

If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.

Did you perceive any commercial bias or influence in the educational content?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please detail the situation below (e.g. session title, speaker name):

Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational area (other areas do not matter) while you attended this educational activity?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please explain in detail (e.g. who, when, where):

Do you believe your participation in this activity will positively impact your healthcare team?

Yes

Why or why not?

What questions are you having in your practice that you would like to see addressed in an educational activity?

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact knowledge, strategies/skills, performance and/or patient outcomes?

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