About this Event

Colonial Legacies within Mental Health Treatment Models 


Presented By: 

Dr. Tareq Yaqub, MD 

Friday, July 26, 2024

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Central Time)

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Please register for this event only if you can attend live. A recording is not included in the ticket purchase. 

Continuing Education Information:


Let’s Play Therapy Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7179. This program offers 2.0 NBCC CE hours. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Let’s Play Therapy Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

                            

Continuing Education Certificate:

Participants will be required to complete an evaluation upon conclusion of the workshop to receive a certificate. The CE certificate is awarded to those who attend the entire webinar.

It is the responsibility of each professional to check with their state or national licensing board to obtain continuing education credit for this seminar. Most state and national licensing boards will approve continuing education courses which cover clinical topics, practice management skills, legal and ethical responsibilities and stress management. It is your responsibility as the license/certificate holder to be aware of and abide by the continuing education rules and guidelines set forth by your licensing board.

Program Description:

This program will explore the ways in which colonial dominations and its ongoing legacies obstruct narrative possibilities for marginalized communities. 

It will provide clinical material demonstrating the importance of incorporating ethnocultural symbolism and history in narrative creation to promote resilience and hope. 

Objectives:

1) Identify colonialism and settler colonialism as systems of domination.

2) Describe the ways traditional treatment delivery reinforces these systems.

3) Recognize the limits of treatment within the clinical field and explore the unique role mental health professionals have in challenging conditions that jeopardize mental wellness.

Important Program Details:

Consent to be Recorded:

Live events may be recorded for future non-contact training opportunities. Attendees will be given prior notice of any recording; however, participation in the event implies consent to the recording and consent for any educational or commercial use without compensation.

Target Audience:

Graduate level mental health students & licensed mental health practitioners. This seminar is a BEGINNING level course. This workshop is appropriate for licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals, including psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors. 


Speaker Disclosures:

Financial:  Dr. Tareq Yaqub, MD receives a speaking honorarium from Let's Play Therapy Institute, LLC.

Non-financial:  Dr. Tareq Yaqub, MD has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Grievance Policy:

Let’s Play Therapy Institute seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to: Sophia Ansari, [email protected]. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems. 

Special Accommodations:

Live Closed Captioning will be enabled for this presentation. We respect your sensory needs and will accommodate to make this a meaningful and valuable learning experience for you.  For questions about accessibility or to request an accommodation, please contact Sophia Ansari at [email protected]

Training Refund Policy:

This is a free event.

Schedule (Times in Central Time Zone):

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12:00 PM - 1:30 PM    

Workshop

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM  

Conclusion/ Q&A



Instructor(s)

Dr. Tareq Yaqub, MD

Dr. Yaqub currently serves as the medical director of psychiatric acute care services within the Prtizker Department of Psychiatry at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he was voted the department teacher of the year in 2023. He completed medical school at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine. He then completed an adult psychiatry residency program at the Medical College of Wisconsin, followed by a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan. During his training, he was the recipient of the inaugural Residence Excellence in Psychotherapy Award through Austen Riggs. He then became a fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and concurrently completed further training through the Adult and Child/Adolescent Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. He is involved in multiple initiatives dedicated to increasing access to mental health care for marginalized and vulnerable populations. He currently conducts forensic and diagnostic psychiatric evaluations for minors seeking asylum through the Forensic Assessment for Immigration Relief (FAIR) Clinic at Lurie Children’s Hospital. He also consults with pediatricians regarding optimizing mental health treatment for children through Lurie Children’s Hospital’s Mood, Anxiety, ADHD Collaborative Care (MAACC) clinic. He has presented regionally and nationally on various mental health topics, particularly pertaining to youth and feelings of “otherness.” He has no financial conflicts of interest to disclose.