Description
The course “Culturally Informed Approaches for Stress Management” explores how culture shapes individuals’ experiences, expressions, and coping mechanisms for stress. This training highlights the importance of integrating cultural awareness into stress management strategies to promote inclusivity and effectiveness. Participants will examine diverse cultural values, traditions, and beliefs that influence stress perceptions and responses. The training also underscores the risks of cultural bias and the benefits of tailoring interventions to respect clients’ identities and lived experiences.
This training empowers therapists, educators, and wellness professionals with practical tools to enhance their practice. Attendees will learn to identify culturally specific stressors, such as systemic inequities and intergenerational trauma, and develop interventions rooted in cultural strengths, such as community support, spiritual practices, and storytelling. By fostering cultural humility and building rapport with diverse populations, participants will leave equipped to create compassionate, impactful stress management solutions that resonate across cultural contexts.
This is a beginner’s level course and there are no specific prerequisites for this course. The course is open to social work professionals, students, and individuals interested in gaining knowledge and skills related to culturally informed practices for stress management.
Course Objectives:
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Define the concept of culturally informed stress management and its importance in therapeutic and wellness practices.
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Identify how cultural values, beliefs, and traditions shape individuals’ perceptions and experiences of stress.
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Analyze examples of culturally specific stressors, including systemic inequities, acculturation challenges, and intergenerational trauma.
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Learn to integrate cultural strengths, such as community support, spiritual practices, and traditional healing methods, into stress management interventions.
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Develop skills to foster cultural humility in interactions with clients and colleagues.
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Learn techniques to build trust and rapport with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds to improve therapeutic outcomes.
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Engage in case studies or role-playing exercises to apply culturally informed approaches to stress management.
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Create a personalized plan for implementing culturally responsive techniques in professional settings.
Outline:
Trainers
Faith E. Iloka (she/her) is a Nigerian Mental Health Counselor who employs a collaborative and client-centered approach in her work with clients. Faith utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, art therapy, feminist-therapy, multicultural, and trauma-informed interventions to support and empower clients towards increased self-awareness and healthy coping skills. Faith’s interests lie at the intersections of mental health and wellness, creative arts, and race. Faith also incorporates spirituality as it relates to clients’ unique backgrounds and experiences. Faith works with clients to design an individualized treatment plan to help clients feel heard and held, and support clients as they transition from “surviving” to “thriving”.
Faith received her BA in African American Studies from Princeton University and her Master of Education and Master of Arts degrees in Mental Health/Psychological Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University. Faith completed her Masters Externship at Baruch College Counseling Center. Faith’s areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, grief, multicultural issues, romantic/interpersonal relationship issues, self-esteem, stress/anger management, and trauma/racial trauma.
Faith enjoys afrobeats, playwriting, traveling, thrifting/fashion, and trying new foods.
Audience
Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, MFTs, LPCs, graduate-level Counselors, and any other mental health professionals/providers.
Certificates will be awarded after completion of the full Webinar and course evaluation.
Radiant Sunshine, #1403, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Radiant Sunshine maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/28/23 to 2/28/2026
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Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP):
Radiant Sunshine has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7371. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.
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Refund Policy: No refund will be given for the purchase of any course or webinar.
We accommodate persons with disabilities. Please email [email protected] for more information if disability accommodations are needed.
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