Mental Health, Racial Trauma and Minority Stress

This session explores racial trauma and minority stress and their effect on survivors' mental health. It covers how to include both in risk assessment and support.

This session is part of our Intersectional Risk Tracker Tool (IRTT) factor series. It looks in depth at the IRTT factor on mental health status, including racial trauma and minority stress.

Audience

This session is for IDVAs, ISVAs, advocates, safeguarding leads, managers and commissioners across the domestic and sexual abuse sector. Mental health practitioners are also welcome.

Content

• Definitions of racial trauma and minority stress
• The effect of both on survivors' mental health and on how survivors are assessed
• Perpetrators' use of a survivor's mental health to abuse and control
• Using the IRTT mental health factor in risk assessment and support

Format

The session runs online on Zoom for one and a half hours and costs £35. The joining link is sent to you before the session starts.

Data protection

We Are Frieda CIC (company number 12772194) is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under ZC265841, and our Data Protection Officer is Bennjoseph Vaughan. The details you give at booking are used to run this session and to contact you about it. Our privacy policy can be found at wearefrieda.org.uk/privacy-policy.

Contact

talkto@wearefrieda.org.uk
57 Corporation Street, Coventry, CV1 1GX
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