The Culturally Competent Professional: Issues in Cross-Cultural Diagnosis & Therapy

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Date Jun 19, 2015
Time 12:00 PM EDT
Cost $49.00
Online
Identify potential cultural barriers to effective diagnosis and therapy, and gain the confidence to break them down.

Full Description:
Ethics codes of all behavioral health professions now demand that their members achieve a certain level of cultural competency.  Insurance companies are also now specifying it as a part of responsible professional work. But what exactly does multicultural competency entail? 

In this webinar, Dr. Hedges focuses on social and psychological issues involved in cross-cultural diagnosis and therapy. Participants explore issues in urban life that affect cultural, racial, ethnic, and immigrant populations, and how clinicians can play an important role as cultural mentors and allies. The nature and role of difference, hatred, racism and other forms of discrimination and their impact on the physical and mental health of minority groups will also be reviewed, with special attention to the countertransference reactions that can manifest in the counseling session. 

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Course Includes:
Live Q&A
Presentation Handout
Post session recording access
CE Credit


What You Will Learn:
Describe how transgenerational internalizations affect oppressed people
Explain how “we hate” evolves from a personal sense of weakness
Define the differences between race, ethnicity, and cultural identity
Analyze the ways in which cultural formulations affect diagnosis
Recall countertransference issues that can manifest in the counseling session


Your Presenter:
LAWRENCE E. HEDGES, PhD, PsyD, ABPP, is a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice in Orange, California. He is director of the Listening Perspectives Study Center and the founding director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Tustin, California. Dr. Hedges is author of numerous papers and books including Cross-Cultural Encounters: Bridging Worlds of Difference (2013), Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy (1983 & 2003), Interpreting the Countertransference (1992), Strategic Emotional Involvement (1996), and Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively (2000 & 2007). He has been awarded honorary membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association. To learn more about Dr. Hedges and his work, go to www.listeningperspectives.com

Disclaimer:
Only registered attendees will have access to CE. A Cross Country Education web account is required to attend. There is no charge for a CCE web account. It is recommended that you join the meeting 15 to 20 minutes early. Speaker phone sound quality is poor and it is recommended that they not be used to listen to the event.
 

Technical requirements:
To view this webinar you will need to download the WebEx Application. You will be prompted to download it when you first enter the site. To save time, you can setup prior to the meeting by following this link: https://apidemoeu.webex.com/apidemoeu/meetingcenter/mcsetup.php


Who Should Attend:
Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Pastoral Counselors/Clergy, Educators, Case Managers

 


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