Category: Diversity / Social & Cultural Competence, Cross Cultural Category: Diversity / Social & Cultural Competence, Cross Cultural (show less) Other: New York Other: New York (show less)

With cultural sensitivity more important than ever, mental health practitioners must be equipped with a culturally competent framework. 
Now, increasingly, cultural sensitivity is of paramount importance in the clinical space. Current discourse, appropriately, has centered on marginalized groups finding a voice. This workshop aims to stretch the present dialogue into aspects of culture that mental health practitioners encounter in the clinical setting including immigration status, country of origin, subculture/tribe of origin, mother tongue, ethnicity, race, and skin color.  
Subtleties will be explored at the foundational level: for example, the difference between being a Ugandan who speaks Luganda vs. a Ugandan who speaks Lusoga. A worldwide perspective will be embraced and complexities will be examined.  
Participants will be encouraged to reflect upon their own culture, in which each of us is a unique individual, in order to understand processes that clients go through more deeply and to ascertain the impact of their own culture on the professional relationship, whatever it may be.