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What Does It Mean To Be Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive in the Mental Health Field?
As mental health professionals in the public sector, we encounter vulnerable people who are constantly enduring the systems and cycles of poverty, abuse, addiction, and illness. While we aim to “meet people where they’re at” we can sometimes falter and forget to reflect on our relative position in the world to the people we work with. Further, we may feel helpless or fatigued to consider the position we’ve been placed in to support individuals who are up against grating systems. Rahim offers talks that explore anti-oppression concepts, focusing on power, privilege and oppression and consider how they operate in our world for both our clients and ourselves.
Managing Vicarious Trauma
Talking about trauma has become a big business for good reason. However, it’s useful to take a step back from the jargon and explore the concepts of trauma, trauma-informed, and vicarious trauma. This keynote invites participants to examine the roots of trauma and sources of vicarious trauma in their own industry followed by a discussion of micro- and meso-level interventions needed to support individuals. Rahim will present a model for creating healthy boundaries and a burnout prevention plan.
Queer Men's Mental Health
Too often, mental health is reduced to diagnostic labels, wellness to the absence of symptoms, and queer men’s health to prevalence rates. By taking an exploratory approach to mental health and wellness, we can begin to unravel some of the specific determinants of mental health concerns that affect GBTQ2S guys. As a racialized, queer psychotherapist, Rahim examines thirteen unique determinants that queer men come up against that impact their well-being. These will include but are not limited to, internalized shame, body image, substance use, ageing, and the landscape of connection-seeking.
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