Multicultural Orientation and Structural Competencies: Advances in Culturally Responsive Care
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Compare the multicultural competence model and the multicultural orientation model.
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Define cultural humility, cultural comfort, and cultural opportunities and describe how to apply them to psychotherapy and clinical supervision.
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Explain structural competency and its importance to psychotherapy and clinical supervision.
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Identify two strategies to combat internal barriers to cultural self-awareness, cultural humility, and cultural comfort.
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this presentation is for participants to increase their understanding of culturally responsive psychotherapy and how to apply it to practice and supervision.
Description
In this half-day workshop, we will discuss culturally responsive psychotherapy and clinical supervision with a focus on recent empirical and theoretical advances. Specifically, prior models and their limitations will be discussed, and the Multicultural Orientation model and Structural Competencies will be introduced.
We will review important constructs such as privilege and microaggressions, common misconceptions about them, and their application to psychotherapy and supervision. Additionally, intersectionality and its application to psychotherapy and clinical supervision will be discussed. Common barriers to culturally responsive care will be addressed, and strategies for overcoming these barriers provided. Clinical case examples will be discussed.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Melanie M. Wilcox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, Institute of Public and Preventive Health, and Department of Psychiatry at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University at Albany in 2015. Dr. Wilcox’s research focuses more broadly on culturally and structurally responsive health care; racial and socioeconomic inequity in higher education; and Whiteness, antiracism, and social justice. She has 30+ peer-reviewed publications and 70+ peer-reviewed presentations spanning these research areas. Dr. Wilcox is currently a member of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Educational Affairs, having served as board Chair in 2020, and is currently a candidate for President of APA Division 17, the Society of Counseling Psychology. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Wilcox is a licensed psychologist and board certified in counseling psychology. She works part-time, providing psychotherapy and psychological assessment by telehealth. Her clinical areas of expertise include oppression-based issues, trauma, and substance abuse and addiction.