The PsiAN Series: Advocating for Our Patients, Our Practice and Ourselves
USHA TUMMALA-NARRA, PhD
WHO IS DEPTH THERAPY SUITED FOR? CHALLENGING THE MYTHS AND STEREOTYPES
with Moderator Bevin Campbell, PsyD
Friday, December 6th, 2024 from 11am-12:30PM/Eastern
AN ONLINE PRESENTATION
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Cost: $30 per person
ABOUT THIS EVENT
This presentation will address myths and stereotypes of depth therapies – specifically psychodynamic psychotherapy, with racial and ethnic minority clients. Dr. Tummala-Narra will delineate how these misperceptions contribute to racial disparities in access to appropriate mental health care. She will explore how the historical neglect of sociocultural issues in clinical theory shape contemporary notions of depth therapy and call attention to how psychodynamic concepts are critical for culturally informed interventions. She will present research and clinical case vignettes to illustrate how sociocultural oppression, such as racism and xenophobia, can be engaged in the therapeutic relationship.
ABOUT THE PsiAN SERIES
In these last few years, we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. Alongside these national and global challenges, we are amid a mental health crisis with decreasing access to psychotherapy. It is vitally important in order for our practices and communities to thrive to be informed about how depth therapies can help, what people are looking for in mental health treatment, and how we can support and protect the work we do, while making it more accessible to more people.
Prevailing myths and misconceptions regarding mental health and psychotherapy that either clinicians or the public hold need to be challenged, as they limit our capacity to help more people in more circumstances and often steer the public, including marginalized communities, towards a reduced set of options.
Many of these areas are not addressed in undergraduate and graduate education, and therapists often start practicing without a greater understanding and appreciation of these issues and the very real ways in which they can impact and impede our work.
This webinar series will help students and therapists at all career stages develop a greater understanding of the mental health landscape, and how they can protect and advance the work they do.
Read about the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD, is a Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She is a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN). She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books. Dr. Tummala-Narra is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including being listed among the top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
