Hablar es Sanar: Sustainable Trauma Informed Bilingual and Bicultural Integrated Behavioral Health

Description: This 1-hour webinar will discuss strategies for providing bicultural and bilingual counseling services within integrated behavioral health settings. The presentation will outline Latinx cultural values, trauma informed strategies, ways to sustain our work, and best practices when working with Latinx and Spanish speaking patients. Integrating current scholarship along with professional experience, the presenter will examine the challenges and strengths of this work.

Presenters: Bryan Rojas-Arauz, PhD

Presenter Emails: bryan.o.rojasarauz@gmail.com

Presenter Bios: Bryan O. Rojas-Araúz is an Afro-Latino immigrant of Costa Rican and Panamanian descent. He received his B.A. in Psychology from San Jose State University, earned his Master’s in Counseling in Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy with a dual emphasis in College Counseling at San Francisco State University and graduated with a PhD in Counseling Psychology with a Specialization in Spanish Language Psychological Services and Research from the University of Oregon. His research emphasis is on Latinx Psychological Wellbeing; Immigrant and DREAMer Experiences; Undocumented Communities’ access to Mental Health and Education; Critical Consciousness; Cultural Competencies, Advocacy, and Social Justice. His dissertation titled Undocumented Healing: Strengths & Resilience from the Shadows used testimonios and data as poetry to identify challenges as well protective factors and psychological strengths of Undocumented Students. He has over 10 years of experience providing bilingual mental health services and working with Spanish speaking communities including children, adults, and families. He was a psychology resident at CU Anschutz School Medicine and a bilingual mental health provider at Salud Family Health Centers. More recently, he was the Director of Latinx and Spanish Language Services at Reaching HOPE, a trauma clinic working with individuals and families who are victims of crime, front line workers, DA employees, social services employees, and others exposed to trauma or at risk of vicarious trauma. Dr. Rojas-Araúz is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver’s International Disaster Psychology: Trauma and Global Mental Health Master’s program, where he teaches and supervises. He is a trauma licensed psychologist (CO PSY#5991) and the co-founder of In Lak’ech Counseling, Education, and Consulting. Dr. Rojas-Araúz is a HipHop educator, DREAMer, documentary filmmaker, slam poet, author, and scholar-activist.
 
Learning Objectives: After completing this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe the importance of bilingual and bicultural services in integrated behavioral health.
• List two trauma-informed strategies that can help to enhance outcomes within culturally responsive IBH
• Identify two strategies to reduce burnout and enhance the sustainability of IBH for providers
• Identify two cultural values and ways to use them to better serve clients.

Accessibility statement: SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Integrated Behavioral Health project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Thursday 3/23/23.
 

Continuing Education Information 
 

The Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, an accredited post-secondary educational institution, maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT, LPCC, and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BPC 4980.54, 4989.34, 4996.22, 4999.76). Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, PhD taosh@sfsu.edu
 
 

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants licensed in California by the BBS desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process.