Multicultural Awareness and Diversity: Powerful Strategies to Improve Client Rapport and Cultural Competence – Lambers Fisher

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• Strategies to improve rapport with diverse clients
• Case studies and experiential exercises
• Adapt treatment for specific groups

Too often, therapists feel paralyzed by the fear that they don’t know enough about other cultures to try to counsel clients different than themselves.

Watch this recording and reduce those fears by increasing your understanding of cultural experiences with which you are not personally or professionally familiar.

Without learning multiple languages or becoming an expert on every possible culture, you can become more culturally competent and feel more confident in your ability to counsel any client from any culture. Beyond ethnicity, you will also explore issues of age, gender, sexuality, religion, acculturation, and social justice, as well as opportunities to strengthen your own cultural self-awareness.

Join Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDIV, for this adventure into the world of cultural competency. Take away immediately applicable and practical strategies to:

• Improve assessment
• Avoid ethical dilemmas
• Overcome fears
• Reduce unintentional cultural offense
• Build significant therapeutic rapport
• Help clients of any cultural background make meaningful change in their lives

You may just want to watch this recording to receive 6 hours of cultural competency including 3 hours of ethics. You will leave with so much more! This highly engaging and encouraging seminar will challenge you to learn more about other cultures, accept what you do not yet know in the process, and utilize therapeutic strategies that can help you be effective along the journey toward becoming an increasingly culturally competent therapist.

1. Implement the DSM-5® criteria and cultural formulation interview to accurately assess for cultural influences as it relates to diagnosis.
2. Recognize biases to improve clinical strategies, rapport, and engagement with a variety of clients.
3. Develop a deep understanding of the impact of varying cultural group experiences to enhance empathy in session.
4. Establish ethical standards for a culturally competent practice related therapeutic authority and effective self-disclosure.
5. Utilize clinical strategies to address unintentional cultural offenses towards clients to increase treatment effectiveness.
6. Apply skills to overcome cultural barriers such as language, religion and different belief systems to improve session outcomes.

Cultural Competencies in Mental Health

• Client-centered approach to cultural competence
• Trends in cultural identity development
• Acknowledge cultural differences: terms of reference, racism and stereotypes
• Improve client rapport
  • Make cultural connections
  • Acquire knowledge & skills
  • View behavior within a cultural context
• Exercise: Cultural Self-Assessment

Ethics & the DSM-5®: Guidelines for the Integration of Cultural Competencies

• Cross-cultural variations in presentations
• Cultural genograms
• Assessments and diagnostic protocols
• DSM-5® Cultural Formulation
• Ethical standards for culturally competent practice
  • Cultural perspectives on therapeutic authority
  • Referring without abandoning
  • Effective self-disclosure
  • Advocacy and social justice
  • Exercise: Cultural Formulation Interview

Overcome Dilemmas in Practice

• Working with limited English proficiency and bi/multilingual clients
• When to use an interpreter
• Strategies for working with cultural transference and counter transference
• Avoiding and addressing unintentional cultural offenses toward clients
• Empathizing with victims as well as accused perpetrators of social injustice

Interventions & Strategies for Specific Populations

• Understand client experiences of sexual identity and gender fluidity
• Strategies for supporting clients when therapist’s and client’s religious beliefs conflict
• Methods for building rapport with clients with various disabilities
• Adapting therapeutic style to client’s cultural presentation
• Case Examples: Cultural experiences therapists often misunderstand

Overcome Limitations of the Research & Potential Risks

• Limited empirical models
• Lack of professional awareness & confidence
• Changing cultural values, needs & expressions
• Incomplete scope: clients, counselors, supervisors, colleagues & community