10-Page SPECIAL REPORT: RBTS and Learned Helplessness By Nzingha Dalila, EdD, LPCC-S, LCDC-III

SPECIAL REPORT:

RBTS and Learned Helplessness - Recognizing and Healing from Race-Based Traumatic Stress By Nzingha Dalila, EdD, LPCC-S, LCDC-III

Learning Outcomes

• Define learned helplessness and its relationship to racial identity development
  
• Explain how the RBTS creates psychological deficits that interferes with nation-building
  
• Understand the inferiorization process
  
• List types of racial discrimination in order to defend against inferiorization
  
• Identify how to combat psychological attachment by overcoming “Ugh Field” behavior
  
• Demonstrate the power of perception and the subconscious in reversing RBTS in your life
  
• Understanding Race-Based Traumatic Stress
  

Defined RBTS

• A process and set of reactions to racial violence resulting in symptoms and reactions that impairs functioning
  
• Understand the forms of racial violence Africans experience
  
• Stages of African racial identity development and the psychological struggles that occur in order to combat RBTS and break the bonds of mental slavery