Friday Forum Encore:  Considerations In Psychotherapy with Mothers of Black Children

This program will be held virtually via Zoom. Details with instruction on how to view the webinar will be sent to all registrants the day before the program (5/11).

Program: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

Friday Forums are cosponsored with the Metropolitan State University Psychology Department.

This program qualifies for 3.0 continuing education credits. Attendees must attend entire session to gain credit.
Level: Intermediate: Assumes post-doctoral education status and general familiarity with topic. It is designed for psychologists and other mental health professionals.
The speaker has no conflicts of interest to report

About the Program:
This Forum will explore the complex realities and psychological challenges to optimal mental health that confront mothers of Black children and their families in the continued reality of racial hostility and state-sponsored violence expressed in police brutality. These are transgenerational realities with historical and contemporary components that Black families have always faced. Dr. Greene will hold a conversation with some mothers of Black children who will talk about their personal experiences attempting to protect their children in ways that they are powerless to control. She will also discuss with them situations they confront in preparing their children to anticipate and negotiate varying forms and locations of racial hostility that they must also navigate for themselves, and that they are powerless to control.

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify many of the overt and hidden stressors that mothers of Black children routinely experience.
2. List the ways that racial hostility and need for racial socialization affects and can complicate the dynamics in the parent-child relationship.
3. Describe how this process may pose particular challenges to parenting at different developmental junctures over the lifespan.
4. Describe emotional sequelae for mothers of Black children, as they attempt to navigate this process.

This program qualifies for 3.0 continuing education credits. Attendees must attend entire session to gain credit.
The speaker has no conflicts of interest to report. 

About the Presenter:

Beverly Greene, Ph.D., ABPP, received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Adelphi University and is a Professor of Psychology at St. John’s University, and a clinical psychologist in New York City. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and 9 of its divisions, is Board Certified in Clinical Psychology (American Board of Professional Psychology), is a Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology and a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey. Dr. Greene is a founding coeditor of the Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, the official journal of the new Institute bearing that name at St. John’s University.

A prolific scholar, she is the author/coeditor of over one hundred scholarly publications of which twelve have received national awards for making significant and distinguished contributions to the psychological literature. A founding co-editor of the APA Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity 5 volume book series: Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues she is a multiple recipient of the Association for Women in Psychology’s Distinguished Publication Award (1995,2000), its  Women of Color Psychologies Publication Award (1995, 2000, 2011) and APA Society for the Psychology of Women’s Psychotherapy with Women Research award (1995,1996, 2000 for two publications).  She is the co-editor of the award winning and ground breaking volume, Psychotherapy with African American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practice(1995).

The Minnesota Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Minnesota Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS:  If you need disability related accommodations to make this event accessible, please contact the Metropolitan State University Center for Accessibility Resources, 651-793-1549, or [email protected].