- Evidence-based approach to cultural competence
- Trends in specific locale: variation and mental health needs
- Exercise: The universal, cultural, and individual
- Cross-cultural variations in presentations
- Cultural concepts of distress
- DSM-5® cultural formulation
- Cultural factors influencing clients’ perspectives of their symptoms and treatment options
- Ethical standards for culturally competent practice
Overcome Dilemmas in Practice
- Working with limited English proficiency and bi/multilingual clients
- When to use an interpreter
- Distinguish cultural and racial factors in mental health care
- Recognize intersections of gender, race, age, ethnicity, religion, class, etc.
- Anticipate possible points of transference and resistance
- Exercise: Analyze intersecting identities and positionalities
- Overview of trauma in cultural context
- Assessments and tools
- Medication: use and belief system
- Collaborate with traditional and/or natural healing practices
- Integrate and adapt interventions for different clients
- Individualist versus collectivist adjustments
- Cognitive-behavioral modifications
- Psychodynamic variations
- Exercise: Broaching culture, ethnicity, and race
- Methodology and sampling
- Internal validity of design
- Generalizability of results
- Applications and utility


