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Radical Therapy for Radical Times

Frank Gruba-McCallister, PhD
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify three negative impacts of capitalist ideology

  • Explain the role of stress in the adverse impact of inequality on well-being

  • Describe the four steps involved in practicing critical/liberatory psychotherapy

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop will provide participants with a better understanding of how different forms of distress are linked to the losses, pressures, and stress created by capitalist ideology. It will also provide participants with a model of therapy to address these types of responses that contrasts with current mainstream practice.

Description

This course describes how these radical changes widely impacting individuals’ physical and psychological well-being require a different—and radical—approach to healing. Radical therapy focuses on the material, political, and social causes of suffering; identifies capitalist ideology as source of much suffering; and provides methods for both uncovering and addressing the ideological bases of suffering in order to promote individual and collective liberation. Participants will learn what role capitalist ideology plays in the formation of individuals’ world-view and sense of identity. Following this, a detailed description for how to assess the detrimental material and social impacts of capitalism is provided.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Frank Gruba-McCallister, PhD
Frank Gruba-McCallister, Ph.D., taught and served in academic administration for thirty-three years in professional psychology schools. He had a particular interest in promoting the education of students in socially responsible practice and, as Vice President of Academic Affairs at Adler University, led a curriculum revision in service of this goal. He has taught courses, conducted workshops, and written on topics relating to critical psychology, the advancement of social justice, and the impact of economic and political factors on well-being. This includes the publication of two books on the subject with University Professors Press. He also co-edited "A Revolutionary Psychologist's Guide to Radical Therapy" published by Palgrave Macmillan which examines different approaches to radical therapy.

Financially Sponsored By

  • TPN.health