Module 301-2
Assessment and Diagnosis
Online
This module aims to provide an understanding of cross-cultural issues in clinical practice as well as strategies for engaging, screening, assessing and diagnosing when working with CALD clients in a psychiatric context.
It provides knowledge for recognising the differing expressions of distress and explanations of illness; strategies to engage with CALD clients and their families; considerations when using screening tools and conducting a Mental Status Examination; a cultural assessment tool and guidance on how to develop a cultural formulation.
The following key topics are covered:
At the end of the module, you should be able to:
- engage in a culturally appropriate way with CALD clients and their families, and keep your CALD client engaged in the process
- recognise differing expressions and explanations of illness
- use screening tools appropriately with CALD clients (specific for psychologists)
- conduct a culturally appropriate Mental Status Examination (MSE)
- understand some of the risks of misdiagnosis
- develop a cultural formulation.
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
- 301-3 Treating cross-culturally
- Modalities for intervention
- Ethnopsychopharmacology
- Ethnocultural transference
- Collaboration in intervention
- An integrative treatment plan
- Seeking collegial input
- 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.
