Module 301-4
Working with Interpreters in mental health
Online
This module aims to provide essential knowledge and practical skills to help clinicians work more effectively with interpreters in a mental health context.
Key topics include about interpreters, language assessment, pre-briefing interpreters, structuring a session, debriefing interpreters, and addressing common interpreting issues
Dependent on your level of awareness of working with interpreters in a mental health context you may or may not need to take this module. We have created a short quiz for you to self assess if you need to take up this module. We strongly recommend taking the short quiz before enrolling.
The following key topics are covered:
- About interpreters
- Language assessment
- Pre-briefing interpreters
- Structuring a session
- Debriefing interpreters
- Addressing common interpreting issues
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
- understand more about competencies and services delivered by interpreters
- know when, and when not to engage an interpreter
- conduct a pre-brief and a debrief with an interpreter
- know how to structure a session with an interpreter and a client, and when using a digital device
- recognise and address common interpreting issues in a session.
- 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
- 301-3 Treating cross-culturally
- Modalities for intervention
- Ethnopsychopharmacology
- Ethnocultural transference
- Collaboration in intervention
- An integrative treatment plan
- Seeking collegial input
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 = 2 hours.
