Cultural Responsiveness
Presented by Tanvir Mann, LMFT
Central Valley Behavioral Health and the San Joaquin Valley Psychological Association are pleased to invite you to a CE presentation on Cultural Responsiveness. This engaging event will focus on how to improve a clinician's skills to work with patients around areas of cultural diversity. This event also satisfies the Board of Psychology requirement to engage in cultural competency training for licensure renewal.
Objectives:
Participants will, at the conclusion of this training,
1. Define cultural competence (racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic status, sexuality identities), cultural responsiveness, unconscious bias, and the role of rituals in therapeutic relationships.
2. Examine the function of bio-psycho-social theory and cultural identity development.
3. Increase self-awareness by learning to identify cultural identity and how it affects client treatment.
4. Identify strategies to reduce bias and how to create inclusive therapeutic spaces through cultural competency.
Schedule:
8:30am - Check-in and Networking
9:00am - CE Presentation will Begin
10:30am - Break
11:00am - Presentation Resumes
12:00pm - End of Presentation
Location
This event is being co-sponsored by Sierra Meadows Behavioral Health who is providing the venue location at their facility in central Fresno on Fir (one block north of Herndon), between Cedar and Maple. The facility is located at 1781 E. Fir Suite 102, Fresno, CA 93720. See map below for directions.
Continuing Education: Three (3) continuing education credits provided by Central Valley Behavioral Health, an authorized provider of continuing education credit through the American Psychological Association (APA).
Central Valley Behavioral Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Central Valley Behavioral Health maintains responsibility for the content of this continuing education event.
For questions, comments, or concerns regarding Central Valley Behavioral Health CE program content, material, registration, or any related matters, please contact our Continuing Education Director Jason Christopherson, PsyD, ABPP, at (559) 472-3371
*Important Notice: Please note that APA guidelines require that we only give credit to those who attend the entire event. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time, or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits. No partial credit will be awarded.