Integrating Cultural Competence into Evidence Based Practices with Individuals with Co-Occurring Disorders-View Presentation Slides

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The document outlines a webinar organized by the American Psychiatric Association focused on integrating cultural competence into evidence-based practices for individuals with co-occurring disorders. The presentation highlights the importance of understanding and effectively interacting with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds within clinical settings. Cultural competence is defined as the ability to effectively communicate and understand people from different cultures, while cultural humility involves recognizing and challenging one's own biases and stereotypes.<br /><br />The webinar emphasizes the integration of cultural competence into traditional therapy methods and evidence-based practices, particularly in managing co-occurring disorders, which refer to simultaneous mental illness and substance use disorders. It stresses that therapy effectiveness often depends on the therapist's charisma, believability, and the therapeutic relationship more than the techniques themselves.<br /><br />Key learning objectives include listing traits of culturally competent providers, building rapport in cross-cultural counseling, and integrating cultural competence into treatment models. It underscores that culturally competent counselors should move beyond first impressions, search for client strengths, be aware of their own biases, and draw lessons from counter-transference reactions.<br /><br />Feedback-informed treatment is promoted, highlighting the importance of client feedback for enhancing the therapeutic process. Techniques such as motivational incentives and group psychotherapy (considering factors like universality, hope, and catharsis) are discussed as part of the therapy.<br /><br />The document also touches on the pivotal role of therapists understanding their diverse identities and biases, stating that no clinical training will compensate for a lack of cultural humility. Questions to foster self-awareness and the importance of multicultural membership cohesion in therapy groups are also covered.<br /><br />Finally, the document provides logistical details on claiming continuing education credits, upcoming webinars, and contact information for further engagement with the session and additional resources.

Keywords

cultural competence

evidence-based practices

co-occurring disorders

American Psychiatric Association

cross-cultural counseling

therapist-client relationship

feedback-informed treatment

cultural humility

group psychotherapy

continuing education credits