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The Historic Trauma and Resilience Inventory (HTRI) with Dr. Devika Dibya Choudhuri
Devika Dibya Choudhuri is a Professor and the Program Coordinator of Counseling Programs at Eastern Michigan University. A Professional Counselor (MI/CT), Board-Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and Certified EMDR Therapist, she has 20 years of clinical experience with refugees, immigrant and multicultural populations, as well as trauma survivors on violence, sexuality, grief and loss. She uses narrative, somatic, and EMDR informed approaches in working with trauma. Her scholarship focuses on DEIJ issues in counseling, supervision and pedagogy, as well as cultural competency in trauma counseling, group work, and ethics. She served on the National Board of Certified Counselors from 2009-2015, the Minority Fellowship Advisory Council from 2015-2018 and as President of the Association for Specialists in Group Work in 2020. She is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling; a Reviewer for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development. Currently, she is validating an instrument to measure historic trauma across diverse clients, explore multigenerational effects of trauma due to racism and colonization and develop community-based interventions.
Discussion Questions:
What do you think Dr. Choudhuri means when she mentions we cannot “hang up our identities with our coats?” How do our identities impact the counseling relationship and the counseling space?
In the middle of the episode, there is conversation regarding the importance of managing triggers in the counseling space? How can you, as the counselor, implement coping skills or counseling skills to deal with countertransference you may experience in the counseling space?
What is the purpose of the HTRI and when may it be appropriate to utilize?
What do you consider to be some strengths and limitations of the HTRI?
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By Association for Assessment and Research in CounselingDevika Dibya Choudhuri is a Professor and the Program Coordinator of Counseling Programs at Eastern Michigan University. A Professional Counselor (MI/CT), Board-Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and Certified EMDR Therapist, she has 20 years of clinical experience with refugees, immigrant and multicultural populations, as well as trauma survivors on violence, sexuality, grief and loss. She uses narrative, somatic, and EMDR informed approaches in working with trauma. Her scholarship focuses on DEIJ issues in counseling, supervision and pedagogy, as well as cultural competency in trauma counseling, group work, and ethics. She served on the National Board of Certified Counselors from 2009-2015, the Minority Fellowship Advisory Council from 2015-2018 and as President of the Association for Specialists in Group Work in 2020. She is an Editorial Board member of the Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling; a Reviewer for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development. Currently, she is validating an instrument to measure historic trauma across diverse clients, explore multigenerational effects of trauma due to racism and colonization and develop community-based interventions.
Discussion Questions:
What do you think Dr. Choudhuri means when she mentions we cannot “hang up our identities with our coats?” How do our identities impact the counseling relationship and the counseling space?
In the middle of the episode, there is conversation regarding the importance of managing triggers in the counseling space? How can you, as the counselor, implement coping skills or counseling skills to deal with countertransference you may experience in the counseling space?
What is the purpose of the HTRI and when may it be appropriate to utilize?
What do you consider to be some strengths and limitations of the HTRI?