Addressing Cultural Complexities in Counseling and Clinical Practice: An Intersectional Approach, Fourth Edition

This fourth edition features new chapters featuring culturally adapted cognitive behavioral tools and techniques, and trauma due to racism and other systemic forms of oppression. It remains richly illustrated with case material, with many new vignettes and examples demonstrating the ADDRESSING framework in both counseling and clinical practice. Copyright: 2023

This product is not included in the APA Unlimited CE program.

New York state psychologists: This program is not currently in compliance with the unique requirements imposed by the New York State Board of Education for New York licensed psychologists CE.

• Develop an understanding of cultural bias and how this bias affects the therapist-client relationship.
• Discuss how to use the ADDRESSING framework which facilitates engagement in the cultural self-assessment process by providing a broad outline of influences and related identities that you can use to explore your own strengths and weaknesses, including potential biases.
• Explain the need to and be willing to continually critically examine your own value systems, beliefs, and sociocultural contexts in order to work effectively with people of diverse identities.
• Describe how to make a culturally responsive diagnosis, and choose the most culturally responsive interventions.
• Consider biases in use of standardized test and be able to find professionally acceptable adjustments for these biases.