Improving Cultural Competence Part 2 (3 credit hours)
The course is divided into three modules. This is module 2 and covers Chapters 3 and 4.
Program Summary: Did you know that fifty percent of culturally diverse clients will end treatment or counseling after one visit (Sue and Sue 2013e)? This course explores the ongoing and dynamic process of developing cultural competence in clinical practice. The course highlights the importance of self-awareness, culturally appropriate knowledge, cross-cultural communication, culturally responsive treatment, and culturally responsive policies. The course discusses behavioral health treatment for specific racial and ethnic groups and also explores drug cultures and the culture of recovery. Sue’s (2001) multidimensional model for developing cultural competence is featured.
Chapter 3: Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Treatment Planning This chapter looks at ways to incorporate cultural factors into treatment services. It offers clinical guidance for culturally responsive interviews, assessments, evaluations and treatment planning.
Chapter 4: Pursuing Organizational Cultural Competence This chapter looks at cultural competence at the organizational level exploring issues of organizational values, governance, planning, evaluation, language services, and staff development. This chapter offers guidance for organizations in developing culturally responsive practices and programs.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/ImprovingCulturalCompetencePart2.pdf
Course Reading: A Treatment Improvement Protocol: Improving Cultural Competence/ Chapters 3 and 4
Publisher: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to improving cultural competence at the clinical/program and organization levels.
Learning Objectives: Chapter 3/ Identify ways to improve cross-cultural communication between the counselor and the client. Describe culturally relevant topics that can be incorporated into the evaluation process. Describe ways to incorporate cultural factors into treatment planning. Chapter 4/Describe cultural competence at the organizational level. Describe the role of the cultural competence committee. Identify key components of a cultural competence plan. Describe considerations for language services.
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 3 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.