Producer: VPA/Brattleboro Retreat
This workshop is sponsored by a coalition of state psychological associations and is organized by the Alaska Psychological Association. Registrants will receive a Zoom link for this webinar the week of September 16.
THE WORKSHOP BEGINS AT 1:00 p.m. ET AND ENDS at 4:30 p.m. ET.
In this workshop, you’ll learn a groundbreaking framework for integrating multicultural considerations into psychotherapy. The framework begins with the ADDRESSING framework, which highlights marginalized communities related to age and generational influences, developmental or other disability, religion and spirituality, ethnic and racialized identity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin, and gender. You will learn six absolute essentials for culturally responsive practice, and how to use the cultural self-assessment to pinpoint your learning edges. You’ll acquire practical, strengths-oriented strategies to ensure accurate, helpful, and culturally responsive assessments. And you will learn teachable strategies, tools, and techniques for facilitating culturally responsive therapy. Specific tools include the Personal Strengths Inventory, Compassion Voice, Wise Elder, the Most Generous Interpretation Technique, and more.
3.5 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, and is also approved by the Vermont Board of Psychological Examiners to sponsor continuing education for psychologists licensed in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics: 0
Cultural Competency: 3.5
Continuing education courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Vermont Office of Professional Regulation for continuing education credit for licensed independent clinical social workers in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types;
Ethics: 0
Cultural Competency: 3.5
Continuing education courses sponsored by the Vermont Psychological Association are pre-approved by the Vermont Board of Allied Mental Health for continuing education credit for licensed clinical mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists in Vermont. This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types:
Ethics: 0
Cultural Competency: 3.5
3.5 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Connecticut accepts these credits for continuing education for psychologists in Connecticut pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-191c(b). This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Veterans' Mental Health: 0
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educaiton for psychologists. Based on this approval, this course is pre-approved for credit for Connecticut licensed professional counselors under Conn. Agencies Regs § 20-195cc-3(a)(1). This course is intended to qualify for mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics: 0
Veterans' Mental Health: 0
3.5 CE Credits for Psychologists & LMHCs
4.2 CE Credits for LCSWs
3.5CE Credits for LMHCs
The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists accepts credits earned from courses sponsored by APA-approved sponsors as indicated in 251 C.M.R. §§ 4.02, 4.03.
As a course sponsored by an APA-approved CE sponsor, this course qualifies for credit for clinical social workers and certified social workers in Massachusetts under 258 CMR sec 31.04(2)(d).
The Vermont Psychological Association (VPA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7610. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. VPA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
3.5 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists. The New Hampshire Board of Psychologists accepts credits earned from courses sponsored by APA-approved sponsors as indicated in Psyc § 402.01(d)(11). This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated credit types as follows:
Ethics: 0
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for clinical social workers licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credits:
Ethics: 0
Suicide Prevention: 0
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education to psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for clinical mental health counselors licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). This course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credits:
Ethics: 0
Suicide Prevention: 0
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. As a course sponosred by an organization with such approval, these credits are also accepted by the New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice for marriage and family therapists; pastoral psychotherapists; and school social workers licensed in New Hampshire, as provided in Mhp 402.02(b)(1). The course is intended to qualify for the following specialty mandated credit types:
Ethics: 0
Suicide Prevention: 0
3.5 CE Contact Hours
The Vermont Psychological Association is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0210. This course is intended to qualify for specialty mandated continuing education topics as follows:
Ethics: 0
Professional Boundaries: 0
3.5 CE Credits
The Vermont Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor live continuing education for psychologists. The Vermont Psychological Association maintains responsibility for its programs and their content. Psychologists and other professionals licensed in states whose respective licensing boards approve continuing education offered by APA-approved sponsors may earn continuing education credits for this course.
Speaker Slides (848.9 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Self-Assessment Handout (196 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Four Steps Article (218.4 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Pamela A. Hays, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in Alaska with extensive experience with non-American cultures. After receiving her undergraduate degree, Dr. Hays completed a year of psychology study at the University of North Wales (UK), a certificate in French at La Sorbonne in Paris, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Hawaii. During an NIMH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, she became closely involved with the Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian communities of Rochester while working on a project aimed at addressing needed mental health services. Dr. Hays also lived for a time in Tunisia, where she interviewed women about the impact of rapid social changes on their lives. More recently, Dr. Hays worked with the Peninsula Community Health Services and the Kenaitze Tribe’s Nakenu Family Center/Dena’ina Wellness Center in Alaska
Dr. Hays served for 11 years on the graduate faculty of Antioch University Seattle. She is currently in private practice and has authored several books, including Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Practice and Supervision and Addressing Cultural Complexities in Counseling and Clinical Practice.
Apply the ADDRESSING framework to increase your understanding of and connection to clients of diverse identities.
Analyze your own ongoing cultural self-assessment.
Create a "Personal Strengths Inventory" for clients that recognizes culturally-based strengths and supports.
Implement at least three cognitive, behavioral, or interpersonal tools and techniques to facilitate treatment success.