PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

The Assessment and Treatment of African American Families has been available to trainees across disciplines individually or in small groups for 30 years. The course has been taught by Dr. Gail Wyatt, a clinical psychologist, and Professor in the Department of Medical Psychology. She offers supervision of a family through which culturally congruent assessment and treatment recommendations are completed. The assessment includes the home, school and clinical environment in which children have lived and an assessment of the structural and systemic forms of racism that the child and family endure.

Weekly supervision of the child and family is available with Dr. Wyatt. One successful recommendation for success is that the trainee have an African American family to evaluate. This is no small feat at the Semel Institute and other faculty often cooperate to identifying a family for trainees who are interested in this experience.

Some of the topics of high interest have to do with interracial/ethnic psychotherapy, the value of teaching code switching to patients of undeserved groups, internalized racism, color blindness, the Imposter Syndrome and other characterizations that can complicate the cognitive and functioning of children and families who may be exposed and traumatized to systemically racist assumptions about health, intelligence mental health functioning.

Please email Dr. Wyatt about your interest at gwyatt@mednet.ucla.edu. Space is limited.

DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION:

Flexible

HOURS PER WEEK: Flexible

FACULTY AND STAFF:

Gail Wyatt, Ph.D., Program Director

SUPERVISION PROVIDED:

Method of Supervision: Direct Observation and Case Presentation

Format: Individual

Hours Per Week: 1-2 (.25 of group, .25 of individual)

Days and Times: Flexible

Names of Supervisor(s): Gail Wyatt, Ph.D.