Understanding Culture and the Mistreatment of Elders (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course examines how culture influences perceptions of elder abuse and neglect. The course focuses on five groups: African Americans, Asian Pacific Islanders, Latinos, LGBT elders, and adults with a disability. The course looks at how these different groups may perceive abuse and seek help. The course also offers culturally informed interventions for working with specific groups.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors and therapists and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice. This course is not recommended for NBCC ethics credit.
Participants who complete this course will receive 2 continuing education clock hours. 1 of these clock hours is Ethics and 1 of these clock hours is Social and Cultural Competence
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/Understanding_Culture_and_the_Mistreatment_of_Elders_readings.pdf
Course Readings: Mistreatment of African American Elders; Mistreatment of Asian Pacific Islander Elders; Mistreatment of Latino Elders; Mistreatment of LGBT Elders; Abuse of Adults with a Disability; Red Flags of Abuse
Publisher: National Center on Elder Abuse- Research to Practice; Administration on Aging, US Department of Health and Human Services
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by exploring key issues related to culture and the mistreatment of elders and adults with disabilities.
Learning Objectives: Describe protective and risk factors that influence elder mistreatment in African American, API, Latino, and LGBT communities. Identify tips for working with African American, API, Latino, and LGBT communities. Describe perceptions of elder mistreatment for African American, API, Latino, and LGBT communities. Describe what the research says about abuse of adults with a disability.
Value: Social Justice Ethical Principle: Social workers challenge social injustice.
Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social workers’ social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for all people. NASW Code of Ethics (2008)
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2018 - 9/6/2021. Social workers completing this course receive 2 cultural competence continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.