(BAK) Alaskan Cross-Culture: Native Behavioral Health

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: History of Alcohol, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health Efforts in Alaska Native Communities; Mental Health Disorders, Suicide, and Violence in Alaska Native Communities; Alaska Area Profile; Mental Health Disparities: American Indians and Alaska Natives; Alaska Tribal Government Policy; Obligations to Alaskan Natives; Alaska Cultural Resource Protection; Technical Assistance, Business and Economic Self-Determination for Alaska Native Tribes; Diversity and Cultural Issues in Alaska; Opioid Use: Current Treatment Improvements & Tribal Partnerships with DHS; Medicine Wheel as a Treatment Modality: PTSD, Mood Disorders, & Suicide; Approaches to Moving Beyond Stereotypes in Alaska Multicultural Counseling; Four Approaches to Alaska Native Multi-Cultural Counseling; Cultural Adaptations Alaska Tribes may Face; Factors that Regulate the Relationship Between Acculturation and Stress in Alaska and other Cultures; Strategies to Counter Automatic Stereotypes; Ethically Redefining Cultural Competence; Diverse Goals for Multicultural Counseling and Therapy; Model of Counseling: Bridging Brevity and Diversity; and Clinical Social Work Practice with Ethnically Diverse Clients.