Culturally Responsive Counseling Practices with Individuals & Families

Counselors have the privilege of working with individuals and families from various backgrounds, intersecting identities, and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. To be culturally responsive means that counselors must reflect on their own journeys as cultural beings. The Multicultural Counseling and Social Justice Competencies models are guideposts to evolving our personal cultural awareness and knowledge to inform counseling practice. Another important aspect of becoming culturally responsive is attending to our emotions and our emotional intelligence.


 


In this workshop, there will be opportunities to address counselor cultural awareness, the stressors for contemporary immigrants, individuals and families with mental health distress because of COVID, and the stressors for working mothers. Case examples will be used to move to identifying culturally responsive counseling practices. The goal is to empower counselors to enact culturally responsive practice with or without the support of their employer.


 


LEARNING OBJECTIVES:


  • Apply the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competency model to counselor self-examination. 
  • Identify emotions that may interfere in being culturally responsive and empathic.
  • Examine cultural values, traditions, and experiences with authority that may lead to mistrust.
  • Identify immigrant strengths and stressors and the solution-oriented mindset of individuals.
  • Recognize personal and professional resources that empower one’s behaviors as a culturally responsive counselor.

 


 


SPEAKER: 


 



 


Dr. Patricia Arredondo has dedicated her career to advancing social justice, cultural competency development, immigrant and Latinx mental health education, feminist leadership, and organizational diversity strategy. She served as president of ACA and the Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development and is a founding member of the Counselors for Social Justice. Currently, she is on the Nominations & Elections Committee and the Board of Elders for the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She is an ACA Fellow.


Dr. Arredondo is co-author of the foundational Multicultural Counseling Competencies of AMCD. She is a licensed psychologist and nationally certified counselor. Dr. Arredondo received her master’s in school counseling from Boston College and her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Boston University. She is the author of more than 100 articles and book chapters and is the author/co-author of eight books. As president of the Arredondo Advisory Group, she consults nationally to organizations on their diversity, equity and inclusion strategies. She resides in Phoenix and Mexico City.


 


 


The Great Lakes MHTTC offers this training in partnership with WAFCA for behavioral health professionals in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI. This session is offered in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.


 


CONTINUING EDUCATION


WAFCA will provide four NBCC continuing education hours at no charge to those who attend the entire training event. Partial credit will be provided to those who choose to attend only part of the event.

Starts: Feb. 17, 2022 8:30 am
Ends: Feb. 17, 2022 12:30 pm
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