Diversity Made Simple: Multicultural Awareness Training for Helping Professionals, Lambers Fisher, LMFT, MDiv

Unintentional cultural offenses and misunderstandings often contribute to disconnected personal and professional relationships.  Unfortunately, helping professionals often feel paralyzed by the fear that we don’t know enough about other cultures to try to effectively support those different than themselves.  This training will help reduce those fears by providing an attainable goal for increasing cultural competence, as well as reducing the negative impact of unavoidable cultural misunderstandings on professional rapport and effectiveness.  This relationship-focused training will provide practical language and strategies that can help reduce tensions and perceived barriers and help strengthen cross-cultural relationships.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Use professional perspective on what diversity includes and its potential impact on building and maintaining rapport with clients
2. Identify strategies for increasing professional cultural self-awareness to assist in helping increase client cultural self-awareness
3. Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies for reducing unintentional cultural offenses and repairing professional relationships damaged by cultural offenses
4. Apply healthy diversity language to avoid division and increase cohesion among culturally diverse families and communities.

Continuing Education Information

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs is approved by the California Psychological Association, Office of Professional Development, to sponsor continuing professional education for psychologists in California. The California Psychological Association is authorized by the Board of Behavioral Sciences to approve continuing education providers. The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Programs designate this live activity for 3.0 hours continuing education credits for the above-identified licensed professionals