Multicultural Awareness & Diversity: Strategies to Improve Client Rapport & Cultural Competence

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Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB, is a renowned integrative medicine clinician and educator specializing in the use of nutritional, herbal and culinary medicine for the treatment of trauma and emotional and chronic physical illness. She is known for her dynamism and humor providing clients effective alternatives to psychotropics. She completed her graduate education in the department of psychiatry and public health at Harvard Medical School and her life training in the jungle of Mexico where she lived and worked alongside local healers for over 25 years. She directed a naturopathic medicine and training clinic facilitating health, culinary and fitness retreats. She is licensed and certified in nutritional therapy, mental health counseling, and bodywork (Polarity and Cranial Sacral and medical massage therapies) and is an approved clinical supervisor. She introduced somatic therapies for complex trauma patients in outpatient psychiatry at Harvard Medical school in 1985 and served Acupuncture and faculty at National College of Naturopathic Medicine.

She is the author of the seminal book on the body and complex trauma: Rhythms of Recovery: Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2012, 2023); The Brainbow Blueprint: A Clinical Guide to Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for Mental Well Being (PESI, 2023), Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health (W.W. Norton, 2016), Eat Right Feel Right: Over 80 Recipes and Tips to Improve Mood, Sleep, Attention & Focus (PESI, 2017); Multicultural Counseling Workbook: Exercises, Worksheets & Games to Build Rapport with Diverse Clients (PESI, 2015); The Good Mood Kitchen (W.W. Norton, 2017); and Natural Woman: Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life (Shambhala, 2019). She was a founder of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a Fullbright scholar in Herbal Medicine and an NIH-funded scientist, in mind/body medicine. She is an approved clinical supervisor and is the research director at the Center for World Indigenous Studies where she designs culinary and herbal medicine programs with tribal communities engaged in developing integrative medicine programs.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Leslie Korn maintains a private practice and is the Director of Research at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. and additionally receives publishing royalties from Norton, Shambhala, and Routledge. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Leslie Korn is a member of the Nutritional Therapy Association and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved.

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Objectives

1. Implement new DSM- 5® criteria and cultural formulation.
2. Identify strategies and biases to improve rapport with diverse clients.
3. Implement assessment and treatment strategies for cultural and historical trauma.
4. Discuss guidelines for working with specific ethnic and religious clients.
5. Apply skills to overcome cultural barriers such as language, religion and different belief systems.
6. Utilize strategies and techniques for multicultural competencies in your practice.
7. Apply culture-based mindfulness and breathing methods.

Outline

Cultural Competencies in Mental Health

• Mindfulness-based approach to cultural competence
• Trends in specific locale: variation and mental health needs
• Acknowledge cultural differences: terms of reference, racism and stereotypes
• Improve client rapport
  • Make cultural connections
  • Acquire knowledge & skills
  • View behavior within a cultural context
• Exercise: Culture(s), biases and ethnic influences

Ethics & the DSM- 5®: New Guidelines for the Integration of Cultural Competencies

• Cross-cultural variations in presentations
• Cultural concepts of distress
• Assessments and diagnostic protocols
• DSM-5® cultural formulation
• Cultural factors influencing clients’ perspectives of their symptoms and treatment options
• Ethical standards for culturally competent practice
• Exercise: Cultural Formulation Interview

Overcome Dilemmas in Practice

• Working with limited English proficiency and bi/multilingual clients
• When to use an interpreter
• Intersection of religion, customs and culture
• Religious experience, counseling and mental health
• Cultural transference and counter transference
• Exercise: Strategies for working with cultural transference

Interventions & Strategies for Specific Populations

• Overview of Historical trauma/Migration
• Trauma in cultural context
  • Assessments and tools
  • Medications; use and belief systems
• Cultural examples of traditional practitioners & natural healers
• Integrate and adapt mindfulness and DBT interventions
  • Explain mindfulness and breathing for Spanish speaking population
  • Religious populations
  • Mindfulness in prison video
• Exercise: Values exercise: medications/traditional healing/spiritual healing

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