EP17 Speech 01 - Applying Multicultural Frameworks for Inclusive Psychotherapy Practices - Patricia Arredondo, EdD

Description:

The application of culturally-informed practices taking into account socio-cultural and historical contexts and intersecting identity factors is essential to ethical practice. In this presentation cultural-centered frameworks are reviewed as tools to recognize unconscious biases and to enhance respectful and inclusive engagements with individuals, groups, and communities. This presentation is informed by the APA Multicultural Guidelines and the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Sue, Arredondo & McDavis, 1992). Examples from clinical and organizational practice will be introduced.

Educational Objectives:

1. Recognize historic and socio-cultural contexts that intersect with cultural attributes or worldviews.
2. Apply the Dimensions of Personal Identity to recognize intersecting identities.
3. Identify two examples of personal cultural awareness and two examples of awareness of clients’ worldviews.
4. Identify 2 interpersonal and organizational behaviors that promote inclusion and exclusion based on cultural factors.
5. Define at least 5 terms such as aversive racism, implicit bias, stereotype threat, microaggressions, political countertransference, and other concepts relevant to inclusive psychotherapy practices.

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