This webinar is intended for practitioners who wish to familiarize themselves with culturally sensitive evaluation and intervention practices in family violence. The webinar will address the importance of decentering, culturally and trauma informed ecosystemic analysis of violence situations and the principles guiding culturally safe enough interventions.
The objectives of this webinar are:
- Describe the core guiding principle of decentering
- Apply a culturally and trauma informed lens on situations of family violence
- Understand and adopt culturally safe enough intervention practices
About the presenter:
Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations.
Her systematic reviews, research and clinical activities are centered around four main areas of clinical cultural psychology: 1) Social suffering, intercommunity relations, hate, racism and extremist violence; 2) Intervention in family violence & cultural diversity; 2) Identity, belonging and mental health of children and adolescents from ethnic/religious minorities; 3) working with vulnerable immigrants and refugees.