Beyond the Code: Humanizing Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

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Target Audience

Law enforcement, social workers, educators, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, school personnel, mental health professionals, clinicians and non-clinician staff, health and human service practitioners, and other health & community care professionals.

Description

Standard diagnostic models often fail to honor the depth of our lived stories and the wisdom of our survival. Join a transformative space designed to bridge the gap between institutional standards and the heart of healing-centered care. We will begin by grounding ourselves in the major categories of mental wellness, reimagining 'symptoms' as sacred adaptations to trauma and systemic weight. You will gain practical tools for conducting assessments rooted in dignity and co-creating restoration plans that move beyond symptom management, aiming instead for the reclamation of joy, restoration, and wellness.

True wellness requires us to look beyond the label to the soil of a person’s experience. We invite you to an immersive workshop that honors the intersection of clinical insight and culturally rooted compassion. We will explore the landscape of mental health through a healing-centered lens, examining how trauma and environment shape our expressions of distress. Together, we will cultivate culturally responsive assessment practices and build treatment blueprints that don't just 'treat' a condition, but support restoration and strength within every individual.


Date/Time
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
9:00pm-12:15pm

Speaker Information
Isis Bey, LCSW, CCTP II

Webinar Information
This webinar will be broadcast with Zoom. Instructions to join the webinar will be emailed prior to the event. You can test your computer by going to the Zoom Test Page.

Continuing Education Credits include:
(You MUST attend the entire webinar to receive credit)

0.3 CEU
CEUs are expressed in tenths and 0.1 CEU is based off 60 minutes of instruction.

3.00 Contact Hours
1.0 contact hour is based off 60 minutes of instruction.

South Piedmont AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5096. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. South Piedmont AHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Objectives

• Learn how to conduct a "Universal Precautions" assessment that gathers necessary clinical data while minimizing the risk of client re-traumatization.
• Apply a trauma-informed lens to the DSM-5-TR major categories, specifically identifying how "survival behaviors" are often misidentified as personality pathology.
• Learn how to construct a collaborative treatment plan that prioritizes affect regulation and safety before moving into trauma processing or behavioral change.
• Utilize non-pathologizing, person-first language in clinical documentation to support a recovery-oriented narrative for the client.

Sessions