Culturally Competent Trauma Care in High Conflict Areas With Michael Niconchuk
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.4 • 131 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
NARM Senior Trainer Brad Kammer welcomes Michael Niconchuk, a neuroscience researcher, practitioner, and author working at the intersection of forced migration, trauma recovery, and peacebuilding.
Michael and Brad discuss the critical shortage of culturally competent mental health care in conflict areas, using laypeople to close that gap, and addressing power dynamics in the client-caregiver relationship. They also explore tensions between the gatekeeping of trauma-informed language by professionals and its overuse by social media influencers and underskilled providers.
About Michael Niconchuk:
Michael Niconchuk is a researcher and practitioner at the intersection of psychological trauma recovery, migration, and violence prevention. Trained in security studies, international relations, and social cognition, Michael has worked for more than a decade in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Balkans to support local capacities to offer evidence-based care for persons affected by violent conflict, extremism, and displacement. This includes extensive work on innovative community programs and policy to support the healing and wholeness of folks affected by the Syrian conflict as well as the return and rehabilitation of the families of foreign terrorist fighters in the Middle East. He is the author of The Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology and numerous publications on mental health, identity-based violence, and migration.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Emily Ruth, and I'm so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, Transforming Trauma listeners. |
| 0:17.0 | If you're a licensed mental health professional working with complex trauma |
| 0:20.9 | and are interested in learning the neuro-effective relational model, we're excited to share with you |
| 0:25.8 | about our upcoming NARM therapist trainings. The Level 2 NARM Therapist training is a clinical training |
| 0:30.9 | designed for licensed mental health professionals, current mental health graduate students, and active |
| 0:35.7 | clinical interns and trainees, where you will get trained in a comprehensive developmental framework and clinical approach |
| 0:41.5 | for resolving the long-term impacts of ACEs and CPTSD. |
| 0:45.5 | As you are learning and integrating NARM, you will receive individualized support from a team of skilled, |
| 0:50.8 | passionate, and supportive trainers led by NARM Senior Faculty, Brad Cammer. |
| 0:55.2 | If you're interested in learning to support |
| 0:57.0 | the healing of complex trauma, |
| 0:58.6 | we encourage you to register now to reserve your spot. |
| 1:01.6 | For more information and to register, |
| 1:03.6 | please visit www.narmtraining.com forward slash schedule. |
| 1:12.5 | And now for our schedule. And now for our interview. |
| 1:15.2 | Michael Nikonchuk is an applied neuroscience researcher and practitioner focusing on psychological |
| 1:20.2 | trauma recovery in conflict-affected populations, migration, and violence prevention. |
| 1:26.0 | Michael has written several innovative scientific articles on |
| 1:29.0 | issues of neuroscience, violent extremism, and intergroup conflict. He is the author of the Field Guide |
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