Hope Matters
The Significance of Employing Interventions Based on the Principal of Hope with Black and African American Communities
Session Overview:
Hope matters. Research has shown that hope is a necessary construct associated with positive adjustment outcomes in youth and adults. Often, internally oppressed people feel hopeless and have a fatalistic attitude where they feel powerless and hopeless. it is crucial for counselors working with the Black and African American community to recognize the value of hope and the damage that the lack of hope can cause. This presentation will teach fundamental competencies to help counselors engender hope when working with Black clients navigating life through the distorted prism of hopelessness.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how systemic racism, discrimination and racial trauma leads to hopelessness in the Black and African American community.
2. Recognize the cost of hopelessness and value of hope as a resilience factor
3. Learn interventions and skills to engender hope in African American clients to help them change their paradigm from hopelessness to hopefulness
