The Institute for Clinical Social Work
ICSW Alumni Committee, Virtual Lunch and Learn
Friday, September 8, 2023
7:00-9:00 p.m. CT
Black Box Warning Required, Danger and Betrayal
The Lifelong Struggle of Living with Military Sexual Trauma
Dr. Renee Dickerson is the founder and CEO of Her Service Matters, LLC., and Victory Place, NFP, and the former Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Readjustment Counseling Service Program (aka The Vet Center) in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Renee has also worked in various mental health and social service programs, including the Department of Defense, Department of Child and Family Services, and the Government of Guam. She specializes in psychodynamic psychotherapy, community and military trauma, the relationship between diagnosis and treatment, integration of womanist theory and psychodynamic knowledge, the application of psychodynamic understanding to the problems of diverse clinical populations, and trauma disorders and dissociative symptoms. One of her beloved icons, Dr. Maya Angelou, said: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Renee Dickerson encourages her patients to feel.
FREE VIA ZOOM – Workshop will be recorded.
To receive 2 CEUs - $20 for ICSW Community (contact Elree C. Smith, esmith@icsw.edu for registration link)
$35 for General Public
Questions, Contact: Leah Harp - leahharp@gmail.com
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, ICSW classes, meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ICSW's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities.
Presentation
Dr. Renee Dickerson will discuss the lifelong struggle of living with Military Sexual Trauma (MST). She will describe how military structure and culture endangers service members, especially female service members. She will provide clinical examples from her work with male and female survivors. She will utilize self-psychology to provide a way to deeply understand survivors of MST and to treat them in the clinical setting. She will explore the shame and guilt survivors may feel and how that manifests in treatment, including the necessity to assess for MST.
Attendees are invited to explore Dr. Dickerson's dissertation found at no charge at: issuu.com/icsw/docs/dickerson