Sources for Human Services Presents

Sources for Human Services presents:

Let’s Talk: The Therapeutic Counseling of African American Men and the Struggles/Paradoxes They Face in Relationships with Their Mothers and Intimate Partners

John G. Taylor, MACC, LPC, January 29, 2016, 9:30 – 4 pm, Delta Community Supports, Glenside PA, 5 CEU’s

Workshop Summary: This full day workshop provides attendees with an understanding of the art of counseling African American men. The workshop helps those who work with African American men in therapeutic or counseling relationships to understand the myriad of complex dynamics in the lives of AA men and what brings them into (or turns them away) from therapy. The workshop will focus on the importance of connecting with AA men to better help them talk about and manage issues in their lives, while offering the encouragement needed to live the life they desire.

The workshop will also describe the paradoxes or mixed messages that AA men receive from their single mothers and intimate partners. The tools necessary to prevent frustration, lack of understanding, and the feeling that the AA male client is unreachable or unteachable will be provided. Participants will leave the workshop with clear strategies, knowledge, and power to impact the changes needed in the lives of the AA male clients they serve.

Cost, When and Where: 1-29-16, 9:30 – 4 pm, Delta Community Supports, (directions below) 5 CEU’s, $130 per person, fee includes CEU’s, all handouts, certificates, continental breakfast, lunch on your own (one hour), PM refreshments

Workshop Objectives:

1. Learn and practice the power of non-verbal communication when counseling African American men 2. Understand techniques used to overcome barriers in connecting in therapy with African American men 3. List five predominate issues that bring African American men to therapy 4. Understand the impact that gun violence and trauma has on the lives and psyche of AA men. 5. Identify five ways to reduce the drop out rate of African American men in therapy 6. Understand the fear and lack of trust that African American men often have regarding therapy and the systems that have failed AA men 7. Understanding why AA men cheat on their intimate partners 8. Identify the three signs of a paradoxical relationship between the AA male and his single mother. 9. Identify and understand the emotional, verbal, physical abuse that occurs in AA men’s relationships with their single mothers and intimate partner 10. Learn therapeutic techniques to produce positive changes in how AA men communicate in their relationships to others.

Agenda

9:00-9:30 Registration, light refreshments

9:30-10:00 Introduction: The importance of non-verbal’s when counseling African American Men.

10:00-10:30- Techniques to overcome barriers when counseling African American Men

1 10:30-11:00 the five issues that bring African American men to therapy

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 (Continued) the five issues that bring African American Men to therapy

12:00- Lunch on your own

1:00- 1:30 Ways to reduce drop rates of African American men in therapy

1:30-2:00 Understanding the fear of African American Men in relations to the five systems of failure.

2:00-2:30 Identifying the three signs of a paradoxical relationship between African American Men and their single mothers

2:30-2:45 break

2:45-3:15- Identify and understand the emotional, verbal and physical abuse that occurs in these paradoxical relationships.

3:15-3:35 case studies

3:35-4:00 Questions, discussion and evaluations.

CEU’s: Five CEU’s; This program is co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. As a CSWE accredited program, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College is a pre-approved provider of continuing education for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists in Pennsylvania and many other states.

Contact: David Hoffmann, [email protected], Phone 610-203-1926, fax 484-417-6150

About the Presenter: John G. Taylor, MACC, LPC, is a Clinical Therapist in Philadelphia counseling clients that are dealing with HIV/AIDS, paranoid schizophrenia, bi-polar, depression, agoraphobia, domestic violence, ADHD, substance abuse, sex addictions and sexual abuse. Mr. Taylor received his Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice from Fayetteville State University and a Masters Degree in Christian Counseling from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, which allows him to integrate Theology with Psychology. Mr. Taylor also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University in the Couples and Family Therapy Program. Mr. Taylor has spent most of his career counseling/working with African American Men. Mr. Taylor has worked as a Correctional Officer, Probation Parole Officer, HIV/AIDS Case manger and a mental health therapist for “tripled” diagnosed clients (HIV/AIDS, Mental Health diagnosis, Substance abuse addiction) Mr. Taylor currently is a writer for the Divine Inspirations Magazine his column The Reality Corner is published monthly.

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Directions: Delta Community Supports, 2210 Mt. Carmel Avenue, Glenside, PA 19038, 215-887-6300 http://www.mapquest.com/us/pa/glenside/19038-4610/2210-mt-carmel-ave-40.100810,- 75.149681?cid=lfmaplink2