Target Audience:
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, physicians, and other health, behavioral health and legal professionals involved in the care of sexual assault victims.
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Discuss historical trauma, its effect on culture and tradition, and the impact across generations in AI/AN communtiies
- Identify one way to incorporate cultural traditions and belief systems into our healthcare response to sexual assault/domestic violence in American Indian/Alaska Natives communities.
Presenter(s):
Art Martinez, Ph.D.
Art Martinez, PhD, a member of the Chumash Nation, brings a strong melding of professional and traditional knowledge. He received his Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from International College in Los Angeles, CA and a Master’s Degree, Bachelor’s degree and a special emphasis credential in Native Studies from the CA State Universities Humboldt and Sonoma. Dr. Martinez has over 35 years of experience in focused delivery of clinical and forensic services to children/families surviving the effects of child abuse and other forms of trauma. As a national consultant to DHHS, Dr. Martinez served as a technical expert for the regulation, development, evaluation and education to tribal services needs. He aided in the development of initiatives for child sexual abuse treatment, substance abuse prevention and treatment, adolescent treatment centers, and 638 tribal contracting processes. Dr. Martinez served as a Clinton administration appointee on the National Advisory Councils for SAMHSA and the Centers for Mental Health Services. Dr. Martinez has served in a technical expert capacity to assist governmental agencies and localities in bringing definition, process and fruition to the overall mission to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of diverse families and children.
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| 2 | Hours:1.25 |