Doing Culturally Sensitive Assessment and Treatment Planning

Course overview

This 6 CEU seminar highlights the importance of employing culturally sensitive strategies throughout every stage of therapy from assessment and treatment planning, throughout therapy and onto termination. Considerations to improve cultural competency are suggested. Various theories for approaching cultural similarities and commonalities as well as attending to individual differences are taught to maximize therapeutic effectiveness. The importance of responding to each client's cultural narrative effectively is considered. Areas where cultural differences impact definitions of "normal" versus "abnormal", beliefs about the causes and solutions of problems. and concepts regarding health and sickness are explored. Participants of this seminar will be better able to more effectively consider the impact each client's personal narrative has on every stage of the therapeutic process. (This seminar meets the board requirement for cultural diversity).