Events

Program Objectives:  Participants should be able to identify:

• Microaggressions:  How the therapists’ beliefs and assumptions about culturally different groups can affect the relationship with the client.
• “Cultural Formation” process and interview forms from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5)
• Common barriers to effective cross-cultural treatment, and how to deal with them.
• How to acknowledge and consider the mores, customs and social norms of the client’s culture from the onset of therapy.
• Twelve critical issues for therapists working with ethno-culturally diverse populations.
• Where you can turn for help when cultural obstacles hamper treatment effectiveness.

To register, click here. Cost is $40.