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Addressing Clients’ Experiences of Racism: A Model

Title:
Addressing Clients’ Experiences of Racism: A Model for Clinical Practice
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Krista M. Malott, PhD and Scott Schaefle, PhD
Description:
This article synthesizes the literature relevant to coping with racism to provide a 4-stage model for addressing clients’ discriminatory experiences. Major suggestions drawn from the literature include applying frameworks with a contextuallens, using broaching and eliciting skills to promote client exploration of racism and the effects of racism on persons of color, enhancing client racial and ethnic identities, and tailoring interventions to the clients’ culture and preferred coping strategies
Learning Objectives:
1.Synthesize professional literature relevant to coping with racism
2.Explore a four-stage model for addressing clients’ discriminatory experiences

CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 0 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
May 18, 2015
Text-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$22.00
$42.00
$42.00
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Affirmative Intakes: Creating Intentional, Inclusive Forms

Title:
Affirmative Intakes: Creating Intentional, Inclusive Forms to Retain Diverse Clients
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Shannon M. Skaistis, MS; Jennifer M. Cook, PhD; Dhanya Nair, MS; and Sydney C. Borden, BA
Description:
How do you ask about clients’ cultural identities on your intake paperwork? Did you ever receive specific training about how to do this? In this Session we present our research findings about how clinicians ask for cultural identities on intake paperwork. We identify common issues, the implicit messages clients may receive from initial paperwork and practical solutions for making your intake paperwork more inclusive, accurate and affirmative with the aim of attracting and retaining underserved client populations.
Learning Objectives:
1.Attendees will learn how to analyze the implicit messages their intake paperwork may be sending potential clients.
2.Attendees will be able to list and describe important factors to include on intake paperwork.
3.Attendees will gain the tools need to analyze their own intake paperwork so they are able to evaluate what changes may be needed and how to make such changes.
CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 1 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
November 27, 2018
Video-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$29.00
$49.00
$49.00
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Counseling Multiracial Populations: Strengths and Challenges

Title:
Counseling Multiracial Populations: Strengths and Challenges
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Kimberlee Ratliff, EdD
Description:
Cultural competence is an ethical responsibility of counselors working with diverse clients. Join an interactive session exploring personal awareness, historical attitudes, identity development models, and needs/strengths of multiracial populations. This session will also examine use of creative counseling techniques, group counseling, and narrative therapy approaches with multiracial populations. Experiential activities will help bring the concepts to life as counselors develop new insights and skills.
Learning Objectives:
1.Analyze strengths and concerns of multiracial populations.
2.Develop cultural competence (awareness, knowledge) when working with multiracial individuals.
3.Recommend resources and evidence-based counseling techniques that may be effective when counseling multiracial clients.
CE Credit(s):
1.5 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1.5 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 1.5 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
May 08, 2019
Video-Based Continuing Education Product
1.5
$39.00
$59.00
$59.00
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Crisis in Ukraine: What Counselors Need to Know

Title:
Crisis in Ukraine: What Counselors Need to Know
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Joshua Kreimeyer, PhD
Description:
Crisis in Ukraine: What Counselors Need to Know (Kreimeyer & Woodson-campbell, 2022) features Dr. Joshua D. Kreimeyer, who has led and collaborated in groundbreaking efforts to bring trauma-informed counseling to Ukraine. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to explain the differences between counseling and other mental health professions, demonstrate cultural sensitivity and awareness of Ukrainian culture, and identify ethical and professional counseling practices when working with Ukrainian clients.
Learning Objectives:
1.Explain the differences between counseling and other mental health professions
2.Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and awareness of Ukrainian culture
3.Identify ethical and professional counseling practices when working with Ukrainian clients
CE Credit(s):
1.5 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1.5 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 0 NY Hours; 1.5 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
August 01, 2022
Video-Based Continuing Education Product
1.5
$15.50
$26.00
$26.00
Available for Immediate Download

Living in the Shadows: Working with Children Impacted by the

Title:
Living in the Shadows: Working with Children Impacted by the Fear of Deportation
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Lizet Lizardo, MA; Ivelisse Torres Fernandez, PhD; and Dora Caro, BA
Description:
Millions of families in the United States, children included, endure profound disruption due to the deportation of one or more family members. Potential consequences of fear of parental deportation will be discussed followed by an introduction to several creative interventions that may be helpful in working with children of undocumented parents. Implications for counselors, counselor educators and researchers will also be included.
Learning Objectives:
1.Gain a general understanding of the potential familial, marital, financial, and psycho-social consequences of fear of parental deportation on children.
2.Learn about implications and recommendations for working with immigrant children affected by deportations.
3.Learn about creative interventions that may be useful in helping children impacted by fear of parental deportation.
CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 0 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
November 27, 2018
Video-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$29.00
$49.00
$49.00
Available for Immediate Download

Multicultural Counseling with Immigrant and Refugee

Title:
Multicultural Counseling with Immigrant and Refugee Communities
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Courtland Lee, PhD; Vivan Lee, EdD; and John Duggan, EdD
Description:
Immigrant, Migrant, and Refugee communities face unique challenges when moving to a new country and culture. Drs. Vivian and Courtland Lee spent two years in Malta exploring and studying these cultures to gain an understanding of how to better counsel these groups, including asylum seekers. Understanding the motivation behind the decision to leave one’s home, and the relationship between acculturative stress and quality of life are key to understanding the counseling needs of the immigrant and refugee population.
Learning Objectives:
1.Learn to identify the stressors faced by migrant and refugee groups.
2.Better understand how stressors affect the coping skills of this population.
3.Understand the importance of assessing the cultural context of a client.
CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 0 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
September 13, 2017
Video-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$29.00
$49.00
$49.00
Available for Immediate Download

Pioneers in Counseling: The Life & Work of Clemmont Vontress

Title:
Pioneers in Counseling: The Life and Work of Clemmont Vontress
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Clemmont Vontress, PhD and John P. Duggan, EdD
Description:
On April 10, 2021, Dr. Clemmont Vontress, a pioneer in cross-cultural counseling, died just 12 days before his 92nd birthday. His career was devoted to expanding the counseling profession’s understanding of culture, existentialism, and humanity. This video, recorded in 2018, is the final interview with Dr. Vontress that offers tribute to his life, work and legacy.
Learning Objectives:
1.Be introduced to the life and professional contributions of Dr. Clemmont E. Vontress
2.Explore issues related to humanistic-existentialist counseling interventions
3.Discover how Dr. Vontress initiated early research in cross-cultural counseling
CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 1 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
July 01, 2021
Video-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$29.00
$49.00
$49.00
Available for Immediate Download

Racial Bias in Mental Health Assessments: Shifting Standards

Title:
Racial Bias in Mental Health Assessments: Shifting Standards Paradigm and Racial Triangulation Framework
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
George Vincent Gushue, PhD; Tina R. Lee; and Jung Fun Kim
Description:
Racial triangulation and shifting standards in mental health assessments (Gushue, Lee, & Kim, 2021) use the shifting standards paradigm and the racial triangulation framework to investigate the presence of racial bias in mental health assessments that White mental health trainees and practitioners apply to Black and Asian clients. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to explain the shifting paradigm and the racial triangulation framework, understand the contexts an instance in which racial biases potentially shape the clinical judgments of White examiners in their mental health assessments, and describe the implications for multicultural competence in counseling training, research, and practice.
Learning Objectives:
1.Explain the shifting standards paradigm and the racial triangulation framework,
2.Understand the contexts and instances in which racial biases potentially shape the clinical judgment of White examiners in their mental health assessments,
3.Describe the implications for multicultural competence in counseling training, research, and practice.
CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 0 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
July 01, 2022
Text-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$22.00
$42.00
$42.00
Available for Immediate Download

Vulnerable Populations: Cultural Responsive Interventions

Title:
Vulnerable Populations: Cultural Responsive Interventions
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Danielle Irving-Johnson, EdS; Jessica Fripp, PhD; Patricia Joyce, PhD; and Dee Ray, PhD
Description:
The Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (JMCD), Journal of Counseling and Development (JCD), and Counseling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR) came together to create a joint virtual issue on the topic of Counseling in Challenging Times and Sociocultural Contexts. This Professional Development opportunity zeroes in on three articles from each of those journals with a focus on culturally responsive interventions for vulnerable populations.
Learning Objectives:
1.Understand some of the challenges and barriers that prevent African Americans from seeking counseling services.
2.Explain the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and health risks behaviors, chronic illness, and disease to leading cause of mortality among adults.
3.Discuss Pluralistic Therapy and how the counselor would implement this approach when working with young people presenting with issues of addiction.
CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 1 (CRC and CVE) CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 1 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
July 07, 2023
Video-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$29.00
$49.00
$49.00
Available for Immediate Download

When Being “Essential” Illuminates Disparities

Title:
When Being “Essential” Illuminates Disparities: Counseling Clients Affected by COVID-19
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Stacey Diane Aranez Litam, PhD and Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado, PhD
Description:
The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has highlighted social disparities in the United States. This continuing education article examines how preexisting racial and ethnic disparities, exacerbated by COVID-19, have negatively affected communities of color, who tend to be overrepresented in lower socioeconomic groups, have limited access to health care and education, be undocumented, and work in jobs considered “essential.” Counselors must be prepared to support communities of color, as well as other marginalized clients with intersecting identities and multiple concerns who may be exacerbated by COVID-19-related stress.
Learning Objectives:
1.Examine the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color
2.Explore how professional counselors need to be attentive to compounding effect(s)of COVID-19 among BIPOC communities
3.Learn how to better understand clients’ worldviews, values, and beliefs as these relate to their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
CE Credit(s):
1 NBCC Hours; 0 CRCC Hours; 1 WA Hours; 0 APT Hours; 0 NAADAC Hours; 1 NY Hours; 0 Ethics Hours
NBCC ACEP No. 1000
April 01, 2021
Text-Based Continuing Education Product
1
$22.00
$42.00
$42.00
Available for Immediate Download
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