"Psychosocial intervention for psychosis: conceptualizing culture in the treatment of persecutory delusions"
Alexandra Moussa-Tooks, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Julia Sheffield, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Aaron Brinen, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Objectives
The activity is designed to help the learner
- Define systemic racism and minoritization, and describe the importance of culture in delusions
- Explain the interaction of threat and worry in the worry cycle that maintains persecutory delusions
- Discriminate threat from worry in situations of systemic racism.
- Apply basic strategies to ask your own clients about culturally-specific experiences when considering its role in maintaining psychopathology
This talk is sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. This educational activity received no commercial support.