Racial Trauma and Minority Stress: The Culturally Competent Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment

1. Investigate core elements of cultural competency for mental health professionals.

2. Evaluate how clinicians can better conceptualize cases where race-based stressors are present.

3. Analyze trauma diagnostic criteria and the impact of race-based stressors.

4. Determine how vicarious trauma impacts clients emotional functioning.

5. Employ the Biopsychosocial Model framework to guide assessment steps and treatment of trauma stemming from racism and discrimination.

6. Analyze factors that influence generational trauma and exacerbate racial trauma symptomology.