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Integrate DSM-5® Guidelines for Cultural Competencies in Your Practice
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- DSM-5® cultural formulation and cultural genogram
- 3 Hours of Ethics Credit
- Strategies to overcome language barriers and cultural differences
- Feel more comfortable treating diverse clients
The DSM-5® has changed the cultural criteria in both assessment and treatment of mental health. Integrating these new approaches is essential to ethical and competent practice. Complete this seminar recording by Dr. Leslie Korn and find out what you need to know about the changes in the DSM-5®and develop a sophisticated approach to diversity in your clinical practice. You will feel confident dealing with diverse clients and better equipped to overcome the challenging demands of cultural competence. By identifying cultural influences and breaking down stereotypes and biases, you can build a stronger rapport with your diverse clients and achieve better therapeutic outcomes.
OUTLINE:
DSM- 5®: New guidelines for the integration of Cultural competencies
- Cross-cultural variations in presentations
- Cultural concepts of distress
- 2 assessments and diagnostic protocols
- DSM-5® -cultural formulation
- Cultural factors influencing patients’ perspectives of their symptoms and treatment options
- Cultural genogram with families
Cultural Competencies in Mental health
- A mindfulness-based approach to cultural competence
- Acknowledge cultural differences: terms of reference, racism stereotypes
- Understand your own culture(s) and ethnic influences—The Fabric of Rapport
- Making cultural connections
- Acquire knowledge & skills
- View behavior within a cultural context
Ethics
- Ethical Standards for culturally competent practice
- Strategies for responding to the spectrum of professional practice and boundaries in cross cultural treatment
- Working with limited English proficiency and bi/multilingual clients
- Ethics, Competence & Professional Practice Issues
- Micro-aggressions in everyday life and the clinical setting
Integrate Cultural Competencies into Practice
- Engaging identities; transference and counter transference issues
- Medications; use and belief systems
- Innovative group therapies
- Culture, somatic symptoms and related disorders
- Grief and resilience across cultures
- Consulting with traditional/indigenous practitioners & natural healers
OBJECTIVES:
- Explain new DSM- 5® criteria and cultural formulation.
- Implement strategies and techniques for multicultural competencies in your practice.
- Discover your personal stereotypes and preconceived notions about individuals with differing experiences, cultural orientations, and languages.
- Identify your cultural influences and use your knowledge to build rapport with diverse clients.
- Develop new levels of cultural comfort when differences exist between you and client.
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB, is a renowned integrative medicine clinician and educator specializing in the use of nutritional, herbal and culinary medicine for the treatment of trauma and emotional and chronic physical illness. She is known for her dynamism and humor providing clients effective alternatives to psychotropics. She completed her graduate education in the department of psychiatry and public health at Harvard Medical School and her life training in the jungle of Mexico where she lived and worked alongside local healers for over 25 years. She directed a naturopathic medicine and training clinic facilitating health, culinary and fitness retreats. She is licensed and certified in nutritional therapy, mental health counseling, and bodywork (Polarity and Cranial Sacral and medical massage therapies) and is an approved clinical supervisor. She introduced somatic therapies for complex trauma patients in outpatient psychiatry at Harvard Medical school in 1985 and served Acupuncture and faculty at National College of Naturopathic Medicine.
She is the author of the seminal book on the body and complex trauma: Rhythms of Recovery: Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2012, 2023); The Brainbow Blueprint: A Clinical Guide to Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for Mental Well Being (PESI, 2023), Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health (W.W. Norton, 2016), Eat Right Feel Right: Over 80 Recipes and Tips to Improve Mood, Sleep, Attention & Focus (PESI, 2017); Multicultural Counseling Workbook: Exercises, Worksheets & Games to Build Rapport with Diverse Clients (PESI, 2015); The Good Mood Kitchen (W.W. Norton, 2017); and Natural Woman: Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life (Shambhala, 2019). She was a founder of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a Fullbright scholar in Herbal Medicine and an NIH-funded scientist, in mind/body medicine. She is an approved clinical supervisor and is the research director at the Center for World Indigenous Studies where she designs culinary and herbal medicine programs with tribal communities engaged in developing integrative medicine programs.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Leslie Korn maintains a private practice and is the Director of Research at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. and additionally receives publishing royalties from Norton, Shambhala, and Routledge. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Leslie Korn is a member of the Nutritional Therapy Association and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved.
