Cross-Cultural Couples Counseling: Strategies to Navigate Multiculturalism in Racial & Ethnic Diverse Couples – Kia James

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If you are not bringing cultural background, race, moral beliefs and socioeconomic differences into the conversation during couples counseling, you are missing a critical step to be able to help your clients.

You may think it’s just a small disagreement they are bringing up in-session, but really the root of the disagreement could be embedded in cultural background, religious beliefs or how an individual was brought up. If you don’t help your struggling couples bring culture background/beliefs into the discussion, it turns into an argument of who is right and who is wrong and treatment progress is stalled.

Watch this workshop and learn how to provide your clients with the tools to clearly address cultural differences – even if they are addressing it for the first time individually or as a couple – so they can overcome racism, discrimination, socioeconomic, regional, educational or familial differences.

Watch three dynamic couples counseling experts Kia James EdD, LCPC, Monika Cope-Ward LCW-C, and Carol Ann Trotman LCPC that bring combined decades of experience with bi-racial, multiracial and cross-cultural couples and family counseling.

These experts will help you successfully identify, bring up and navigate cultural issues in the counseling relationship. Upon completing this seminar, you will be able to:

• Facilitate a healthy dialogue with your clients about culture and its role in their relationship
• Achieve a heightened awareness of personal unconscious biases and how those beliefs automatically influence work with couples of different backgrounds.
• Identify and define culture based on the perspective “what really matters to people” and the many ways it expresses itself through ethnicity, race and nationality.
• Improve their understanding of culture and subcultural components that impact the couplesocio/economic, religious, sexuality, gender, etc.

Purchase Today – Get the tools and ask the questions you were afraid to ask to empower your clients with your renewed confidence and cultural competency in couples counseling!

1. Determine the Issue of culture in the context of couples therapy.
2. Distinguish the different types of cross-cultural couples counseling.
3. Evaluate how to bring culture into the counseling session.
4. Use culture as a tool during the assessment process.
5. Address cultural issues in the context of therapy.
6. Appraise strategies to facilitate effective communication.
7. Assess couples counseling theories and interventions that work.

Why Culture Is Important in the Couples Counseling Relationship

• What is culture? Why is it relevant?
• Synthesizing culture & personal identity
• The clinician’s self-assessment
• Acknowledging your own cultural biases

Understanding Cross-Cultural Couples

• Understanding cross-culturalism & multi-culturalism
• Assess differences in geography/region, socioeconomic status
• Assess differences in ethnicity, religion
• Appraise differences and its impact of culture to relationships
• Conversational tools, 3-session model and other interventions

Common Differences in Cross-Cultural Counseling

• Understanding ‘cultural lens’ for you and your clients
• How to recognize outside negative attitudes (i.e. discrimination)
• How to educate your clients on each other’s culture and see their worldviews

Manage Family Confrontation and Address Racism Within the Family

• How to resolve academic, religious educational, socioeconomic differences
• How to address newsworthy, timely or political differences
• Cultural avoidance & its negative impact to relationships

Help Your Couples Use Culture as a Strength

• Assess their individual and shared culture in couples counseling
• Formulate background history, upbringing, assimilation and acculturation stages
• Differentiate between overt vs covert discriminatory practices

Couples Counseling Interventions

• Help your clients create a culture in their household that works for them
• Facilitate a thorough culturally relevant couples’ assessment
• Exercises and case reviews