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LIVE: Working With Immigrants and First Generation Americans: Clinical Considerations

July 15, 2025  |  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific

Register | $125 USD Purchase for a Group
Presented By Maria Veronica Laguna, MSW
Maria Veronica Laguna, MSW

July 15, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific

3 Hours | 3 CEs

$150 Registration | $125 Early Registration (through July 8th) | Live Virtual Training via Zoom

Maria Veronica Laguna, MSW presents a live virtual professional training program on Working With Immigrants and First Generation Americans: Clinical Considerations.

Given that the United States attracts the largest number of immigrants in the world, the experience of working with immigrant and first-generation Americans is not foreign to clinicians. Due to the current socio-political climate, issues around acculturation, identity conflicts, and intergenerational trauma are becoming more and more prevalent in the consulting room. By drawing on several concepts of Object Relations theory, this workshop aims to help clinicians identify some of the salient issues, unconscious processes, and internal conflicts that tend to occur among immigrant and first-generation Americans. Clinicians will be introduced to theoretical and technical tools to strengthen their assessment and engagement skills when working with this population.

This training is intended for any clinician or student interested in working with immigrants or first-generation in clinical or social service settings. No previous knowledge of psychodynamic theory is required.

This training will use Clinical Vignettes, and participants are encouraged to participate in the group discussion.

Training Outline:

  • Factors Influencing mental health outcomes in immigrant clients
  • Psychic Journeys of the Immigrant (from idealization/devaluation towards integration, etc)
  • Cultural Mourning and its impact on children of immigrants
  • Fantasies Activated in the Immigrant's mind
  • First Generation Americans: definition and challenges. Technical Considerations when working with this population (how to take a Psycholinguistic History, consideration when working with bilingual clients, etc)

Intended Audience

This live program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals.

Experience Level

This live program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.

CE / CPD Credit

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Presented By

Maria Veronica Laguna, MSW

María Verónica Laguna is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She is a faculty member of the Metropolitan Center for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (MITPP) and an instructor of Social Work at Mercy College. She ha...

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Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this program you will be able to:

Describe 3 defensive processes and at least 3 clinical tools to understand their implications in the immigrants' subjectivity and daily functioning

Describe the impact of immigration in First Gen Americans and identify at least 3 clinical tools to engage this population

Describe 2 common transference/countertransference reactions and their impact on the working relationship

Describe common biases, ethnocentric assumptions, and blindspots in multicultural assessment

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