Racial Trauma and Affirming Clinical Practice
This course equips mental health professionals to recognize, assess, and treat race-based traumatic stress (RBTS) while developing the clinician's own racial attunement and moral positioning. Content integrates MSJCC standards, NBCC ethical obligations, and evidence-based affirming practice frameworks.
2
CE Hours
6
Modules
15
Quiz Questions
2
Est. Minutes
What you'll learn
- Define race-based traumatic stress and differentiate it from PTSD using Carter's RBTS model.
- Analyze the role of clinician moral positioning and its clinical consequences for racially diverse clients.
- Apply MSJCC standards and NBCC ethical guidelines to the assessment and treatment of racial trauma.
- Develop culturally affirming case conceptualizations that integrate racial identity and intersectional factors.
- Identify evidence-based interventions appropriate for clients experiencing race-based traumatic stress.
- Construct strategies for sustaining racial attunement and professional accountability in ongoing clinical practice.
Who it's for
Licensed mental health counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and other licensed providers seeking to strengthen their clinical competence in working with clients who have experienced racial trauma.
Approval & credit
CounselorReady is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP #7760). This course awards 2 NBCC-approved CE hours; a certificate is issued on completion. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CounselorReady is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.