Introduction to the AWARE Intervention

Webinars

Description

This recorded webinar features Professor Hyeouk “Chris” Hahm and her work on the AWARE Intervention Training certificate. AWARE — the Asian Women’s Action for Resilience and Empowerment Intervention is an innovative, culturally grounded, holistic group psychotherapy treatment that is designed to treat and prevent mental health problems and health risk behaviors among Asian-American young women.

Based on extensive research on the mental health of Asian-American women, AWARE incorporates a novel trauma-informed psychotherapy approach that is unique to treating women in the Asian-American community. The training focuses on the cultural, familial, and racial factors to consider when working with this population so that interventions can be effective.

Learner Feedback on the AWARE Training Certificate:

“As social workers, we need to continue to develop more specific knowledge inclusive of all people’s experiences. I think this training in particular can help social workers who may not necessarily identify as Asian-American but can still understand the fundamentals of Asian-American women’s experiences.”

“This was an excellent, self-paced course. The flow of the topics worked very well. I appreciated the AWARE commitment logs, as this was a perfect example of how to utilize and apply direct intervention skills.”

“I truly enjoyed this course! I found it to be effective with having videos, articles, session check-ins and other forms of learning intertwined.”

Learn more about the AWARE Training Certificate

About the Instructor:

Hyeouk Chris Hahm, MSW, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Research and a Professor at Boston University School of Social Work. As the developer of the AWARE Intervention training, Dr. Hahm specializes in Mental Health with a focus on Asian Americans, acculturation, and health risk behaviors.

Also featured is Cindy Tao, MSW, LCSW, a BUSSW alum and dedicated social worker currently working as clinical social worker.  She specializes in supporting the Asian and Asian American (A/AA) community and is interested in intergenerational and race-based trauma.

Objectives

Participants will learn about the foundations of the AWARE Certificate:

• Describe what the AWARE Intervention is
• Understand the research behind the AWARE intervention
• Learn how the concept of AWARE intervention can be applied to your group