Improving Mental Health Services for Refugee and Immigrant Families: Using Trauma Systems Therapy (TST-R) to Improve Engagement and Outcomes

This webinar will focus on improving mental health services for refugee and immigrant children and families. Dr. Saida Abdi will present Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), an intervention adapted for refugee and immigrant youth and families who have experienced trauma before resettlement and continue to face ongoing stressors. Special attention is paid to the intersection of trauma and culture. The presentation will include case examples and specific strategies that providers and systems of care can use to enhance service engagement and improve patient outcomes.

Follow the steps below to obtain the Continuing Education credit for this webinar:

  • View the webinar on this webpage. 
  • After you have viewed the full webinar, click the Purchase CEU button.
  • You will be directed to a site to add the webinar to your cart. Complete the checkout process. 
  • Open your receipt to the ‘Receipt Notes’ section where you will find the webinar posttest link. 
  • Complete the posttest.
  • Once you score 70% or more on the posttest, you will be redirected to a site to access the Continuing Education (CE) Certificate for this webinar. 
  • Please download the CE Certificate to save it for your records.

Center for Practice Transformation is a pre-approved CE Provider by the Minnesota Board of Social Work (#CEP-204).

This asynchronous webinar is not eligible for NBCC credit. 

About the Presenter

Saida M. Abdi, PhD

Dr. Abdi is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. She is a clinical social worker and an expert in refugee trauma and resilience. Dr. Abdi has worked for more than 20 years with refugee youth and families in the diaspora. Her area of focus is building individual, family, and community resilience and improving systems of care responsiveness to the needs of refugee and immigrant communities. She is the co-author of the recently published book, Mental Health Practice With Immigrant and Refugee Youth: A Socioecological Framework (APA, 2019).