Lambers Fisher – Multicultural Awareness & Diversity: Powerful Strategies to Advance Client Rapport & Cultural Competence
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- Faculty:
- Lambers Fisher
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 26 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jul 17, 2020
Description
Outline
Cultural Competencies in Mental Health
- Client-centered approach to cultural competence
- Trends in cultural identity development
- Acknowledge cultural differences: terms of reference, racism and stereotypes
- Improve client rapport
- Make cultural connections
- Acquire knowledge & skills
- View behavior within a cultural context
- Exercise: Cultural Self-Assessment
Ethics & the DSM-5 ®: Guidelines for the Integration of Cultural Competencies
- Cross-cultural variations in presentations
- Cultural genograms
- Assessments and diagnostic protocols
- DSM-5 ® Cultural Formulation
- Ethical standards for culturally competent practice
- Cultural perspectives on therapeutic authority
- Referring without abandoning
- Effective self-disclosure
- Advocacy and social justice
- Exercise: Cultural Formulation Interview
Overcome Dilemmas in Practice
- Working with limited English proficiency and bi/multilingual clients
- When to use an interpreter
- Strategies for working with cultural transference and counter transference
- Avoiding and addressing unintentional cultural offenses toward clients
- Empathizing with victims as well as accused perpetrators of social injustice
Interventions & Strategies for Specific Populations
- Understand client experiences of sexual identity and gender fluidity
- Strategies for supporting clients when therapist’s and client’s religious beliefs conflict
- Methods for building rapport with clients with various disabilities
- Adapting therapeutic style to client’s cultural presentation
- Case Examples: Cultural experiences therapists often misunderstand
Overcome Limitations of the Research & Potential Risks
- Limited empirical models
- Lack of professional awareness & confidence
- Changing cultural values, needs & expressions
- Incomplete scope: clients, counselors, supervisors, colleagues & community
Faculty
Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDIV Related seminars and products: 2
Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDIV, is a marriage and family therapist who has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, non-profit organization, as well as ministry environments. He has a strong desire to help counseling professionals in various fields feel more comfortable, competent and confident in their ability meet the needs of whomever they have the opportunity to serve.
Lambers’ training experience includes facilitating workshops, guest lecturing, as well as being an adjunct instructor at Crown College on various aspects of diversity in counseling. Lambers supervises aspiring therapists as a board approved supervisor for the Minnesota Board of Marriage & Family Therapists as well as the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health.
Currently, Lambers is a therapist in private practice where he effectively balances personal and professional experiences to provide unique and practical perspectives on a variety of culturally sensitive topics. He obtained a Master of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy as well as a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.
Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Lambers Fisher has an employment relationship with Restorations for Life Counseling. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Lambers Fisher is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
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