VA - Mediating Allostatic Load for African American Social Workers and Social Work Students

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VA - Mediating Allostatic Load for African American Social Workers and Social Work Students

Credit(s):

1 Ethics
2 Social Work

Course Number:

VA20230324

Original Program Date:

March 24, 2023

Duration:

2 hours 34 minutes

Access:

Available for 5 months after Registration

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Category: Meditation / Mindfulness / Self-Care, Social Work

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This workshop will address the health disparities related to the ongoing racialized stress of African Americans/Blacks in general and social workers and social work students, specifically. Racial trauma is the outcome of ongoing racialized stress which has been found to negatively impact physical health, potentially leading to allostatic load compensation and/or death. Allostatic load compensation may present as allostatic heart failure, allostatic kidney failure or allostatic liver failure. It is important for practitioners and social work faculty to recognize the signs of allostatic overload in order to educate those so affected but also to educate these individuals on the dangers of high level coping related to racialized stress. This workshop will identify strategies to help students/clients/practitioners identify effective self-care methods to mediate their ongoing stress.

1 Ethics

2 Social Work