Diversity within Diversity in a Chinese Canadian Family Ravaged by Covid Deaths
with Dr. T.Y. Wong, MD, AAMFT & CAMFT Approved Supervisor, ICEEFT International Trainer
EFT CANADA TALKS – Deepening Engagement Across Identities and Communities - Hosted by Canadian EFT Trainers - Proceeds to fund Canadian EFT Diversity Scholarships - Supported by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy
In working online with a Chinese Canadian family ravaged by COVID deaths, we discover diversity within diversity. The therapist made the mistake of assuming that this Chinese family is homogeneous, but during the session, recognized that each of the family members brings their own diversity. In this session, we experience how cultural factors contribute to parental blocks to accessibility and responsiveness and child blocks to vulnerability. In Chinese culture, the most important relationship is the father-son bond which maintains the family name and lineage. The role and responsibility of the father as provider, protector and strict disciplinarian and mother as kind and accommodating create tension in the caregiving alliance. The eldest son has a heavy responsibility to take care of his parents but also enjoys many privileges in return. This can result in blocks to child vulnerability and accessing the parents as an attachment resource. The therapist works to balance sensitivity and respect for the cultural aspects while also shaping a corrective emotional experience in which the son is able to experience comfort and reassurance from his father while grieving the tragic loss of both his paternal grandparents to COVID. The attachment dimension is added to enrich and strengthen the traditional Chinese father-son bond based on role, duty and responsibility.
Please join us for this 2-hour event. Register early and have plenty of time to review the full recording with transcript of the EFFT session Dr. Wong will be presenting on November 16th. If you cannot attend in real time, this event will be recorded and everyone who purchases a ticket will receive the link for the EFFT session/transcript as well as the recording of the EFT CANADA TALK. Sign up today at https://tceft.ca/events/eft-canada-talks-4/
Please direct your questions to Becky Fougere
becky@torontopsychotherapist.com
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Tat-Ying Wong, MD, MDiv, RMFT is a Physician, Couple and Family Therapist, AAMFT and CAMFT Approved Supervisor, ICEEFT Certified International Trainer, Grace Health Centre MFT Internship Program Director, Faculty and Planning Committee Member in the Counselling and Psychotherapy in Family Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. TY has been engaged with diversity, accessibility and equity issues from the foxhole all his life. With lived experience of multi-generational racial trauma, teasing, bullying, stigmatization, and discrimination, he felt called to a career in medicine and mental health to make a difference. With his office and hospital located in Northwest Toronto, known for its highest rate of COVID infections and deaths, and lowest rate of immunization, TY is reminded daily that the people who need help most also have the least access for similar reasons. In the past three decades, TY has been proactively engaging Chinese helping professionals and supporting them in learning the most effective evidence based therapies. Since becoming an EFT trainer in 2011, he has taught EFT, HMT/C4C and HMTLMG to hundreds of primary care physicians in Canada and thousands of Chinese frontline mental health providers and faith leaders in North America and Asia to enhance diversity, accessibility and equity.
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