Module 301-3
Treating cross-culturally
Online
This module aims to enhance rapport-building, communication, intervention, and treatment outcome for CALD clients.
It provides material for selecting suitable therapeutic modalities for CALD clients; understanding ethnopsychopharmacology applicable to CALD clients; identifying differing ethnocultural transference issues; collaborative approaches to enhance clinical intervention.
The following key topics are covered:
- Modality for intervention
- Ethnopsychopharmacology
- Ethnocultural transference
- Collaboration in intervention
- An integrative treatment plan
- Seeking collegial input
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
- select a suitable therapeutic modality for your CALD client (specific psychologists)
- apply ethnopsychopharmacological considerations in your intervention
- identify ethnocultural transference and counter-transference issues
- collaborate successfully in a holistic treatment plan
- create an integrated treatment plan.
This training programme includes 3 other modules
- 301-1 Pre-requisites for CALD practice
- Cultural competence in New Zealand
- Cultural competence in mental health
- Cultural awareness
- Cultural constructs
- Cultural dimensions
- Cultural sensitivity
- Cultural knowledge
- Acculturation
- Intergenerational issues
- Sensitive issues
- Skills development
- Checklist for CALD engagement
- Case vignette
- 301-2 Assessment and Diagnosis
- Cultural variations
- CALD engagement
- Expression of distress
- Explanatory models
- Assessment
- Screening
- MSE
- Suicide risk
- Diagnostic issues
- Risk of misdiagnosis
- Personality disorders
- Cultural formulation
- CALD Assessment Tool
- Developing a formulation
- Cultural variations
- 301-4 Working with interpreters in mental health
- About interpreters
- Language assessment
- Pre-briefing interpreters
- Structuring a session
- Debriefing interpreters
- Addressing common interpreting issues
The training programme is designed to:
- facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, the development of awareness and sensitivity to cultural factors, and provide opportunities to apply these as skills in practice.
- fill the gap between theory and practice: there is a proliferation of papers and discussion on cultural competence in the literature and internet, but very little to guide the application of cultural competence learning in a practical way.
This programme is recommended for clinicians working with CALD clients in the field of psychiatry and psychology in the New Zealand health system.
E-Learning online self-paced learning = 4 hours.
