Improving Cultural Competence Part 3 (5 credit hours)
The course is divided into three modules. This is module 3 and covers Chapters 5 and 6.
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 5: This chapter reviews counseling and treatment patterns for 5 major ethnic/racial groups: African and Black Americans; Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders; Hispanics and Latinos; Native Americans; and White Americans. The chapter explores different beliefs and attitudes about treatment, treatment considerations, and culturally congruent interventions, providing a general framework for understanding various groups.
Chapter 6: This chapter examines the role of drug cultures in substance abuse and treatment. The chapter explores the process of finding alternatives to drug cultures and developing a culture of recovery.
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/ImprovingCulturalCompetencePart3.pdf
Course Reading: A Treatment Improvement Protocol: Improving Cultural Competence/ Chapters 5 and 6
Publisher: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to 1) treatment considerations for major racial and ethnic groups 2) drug cultures and the culture of recovery.
Learning Objectives: Chapter 5/ Identify strengths of African American families. Describe factors in assessing shame in Asian American clients. Describe the ‘healing forest’ model for Native Americans. Chapter 6/ Describe the role of drug cultures in substance abuse treatment. Identify ways to assess for drug cultures. Identify alternatives to drug cultures and the culture of recovery.
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 5 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.