Workshop Description
NOTE: This CE was postponed from November 5, 2025. The program is now being offered under a new title, Creating Speculative Spaces Using Artificial Intelligence–Augmented Expressive Arts to Promote Trauma Recovery. The course description and learning objectives remain the same.
Survivors of trauma often face significant barriers to emotional expression and employment as they reintegrate into their communities. This symposium explores a conceptual model for trauma recovery that leverages the power of AI-driven expressive arts to foster healing, empowerment, and economic opportunity.
Key Focus Areas:
Envisioning a Positive Future Self: The model incorporates immersive AI simulations to help participants envision and connect with their future selves. Grounded in Positive Selves Theory, this approach cultivates resilience, hope, and motivation by reinforcing the transformative power of future-oriented narratives.
Building Collective Empowerment through Creative Expression: Using Collective Efficacy Theory, the model facilitates the creation and sharing of personal artifacts that symbolize participants’ strengths and aspirations. This collaborative process fosters confidence, solidarity, and shared healing within group dynamics.
Advancing Self-Efficacy for Employment Success: Informed by the Design Justice Framework, the model integrates strategies to address systemic employment barriers. By enhancing agency, confidence, and inclusivity, it aims to promote meaningful workforce reintegration for trauma survivors. This innovative conceptual model provides a holistic framework for trauma recovery by integrating emotional expression, collective empowerment, and self-efficacy. It highlights the potential of AI and expressive arts to address systemic inequities and support survivors in their journey toward healing and reintegration.
Learning Objectives
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe how the conceptual model engages trauma survivors in creating and sharing personal artifacts that represent their strengths and aspirations, fostering collective confidence, resilience, and shared healing.
- Explain how the model supports the cultivation of agency and confidence, addressing systemic barriers to employment and equipping participants to achieve sustainable workforce reintegration.
- Understand the integration of Positive Selves Theory, Collective Efficacy Theory, and the Design Justice Framework to create a holistic, equitable, and evidence-based foundation for the model.
- Highlight the ways in which the model identifies and challenges systemic barriers to reintegration, promoting social justice, equity, and inclusivity in trauma recovery processes.
- Detail how the model emphasizes the interplay between emotional expression, collective empowerment, and self-efficacy to support comprehensive post-trauma identity development and community reintegration.
Continuing Education Credits: 3.0
This workshop is approved for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed psychologists.
Fees
Presenter: Dr. Amml Hussein, Ed.D., MSW, LSW
Dr. Amml Hussein is an Associate Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University and currently serves as President of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW-NJ). She is also the Chair elect of the NASW National Council of Chapter Presidents (COCP). In addition, Dr. Hussein serves as Vice Chair of the Teaching Section for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), contributing to national conversations on pedagogy and practice in the nonprofit and public service sectors. Her research and teaching focus on trauma recovery, public service, and advancing social and racial equity. Dr. Hussein is especially interested in how communities heal and build resilience, and how institutions can be reshaped to serve people more justly and effectively. Her work is grounded in both practice and policy, and reflects a strong commitment to creating meaningful, systemic change.