Culturally Responsive Behavioral Healthcare: Foundations
It is vital that providers learn how to give the best care possible to clients with diverse identities. This course is designed to teach the contextual concepts of culture, diversity, marginalization, and intersectionality, and how those play a role in the behavioral health treatment field. With over 3 hours of up-to-date content, including live-filmed role plays, knowledge checks, and printable resources, this course will show how to apply cultural responsiveness to one’s clinical work and spheres of influence.
Course Overview
- Estimated Course Length: 4 hrs. 1 min.
- CE Credits: 4.00 continuing education/contact hours for social workers / 2.00 continuing education hours for psychologists and marriage and family therapists / 3.00 continuing education hours for counselors
- Target Audience: Mental Health Practitioners
- Level of Instruction: Intermediate
- Prerequisite: None
- Instructional Method: Self-paced; reading-based course; interactive; hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks
- Accessibility Accommodations: Color contrast; transcripts of video components; closed captioning of audio and video components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.
- Completion Requirements: To obtain your CE certificate, you must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post test quiz. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.
- Financial/Commercial Support Statement: This course has no commercial support.
- Conflict of Interest: This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.
- Grievance and Refund Policies: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.
- Participation Costs: The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.
- Course Creation Date: 2/23/2022
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to describe and employ the following:
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Identify key contextual concepts of culture, diversity, marginalization, and intersectionality, and how these play a role in the behavioral health treatment field.
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Describe the rationale of moving towards “cultural responsiveness,” a combination of the effective concepts and practices drawn from “cultural competency” and “cultural humility,” and the main ideas, goals, and benefits of culturally responsive care.
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Catalog crucial practices and skills to apply cultural responsiveness to one’s clinical work and spheres of influence.
Course Outline
TIMED COURSE OUTLINE
Since the course is interactive and each learner will proceed at their own pace, timing is not exact. These are approximations based on average pre/post-test time of pilot testers as well as the run-time of course videos and voiceover. This course does not have to be completed in one session.
COURSE ACTIVITIES FOR CE CREDIT (≥ 4 HOURS 13 MINUTES)
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Pre-Course Assessment (5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]
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Introduction
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Module 1: Context and Key Concepts (~1 hour and 42 minutes)
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Post-Module 1 Assessment (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]
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Module 2: Behavioral Healthcare and Culture (~52 minutes)
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Post-Module 2 Assessment (~6 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]
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Module 3: Practicing Cultural Responsiveness (~1 hour and 10 minutes)
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Post-Module 3 Assessment (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]
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Conclusion (~3 minutes)
COURSE ACTIVITIES NOT FOR CE CREDIT
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Participant Evaluation (5-10 minutes)
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Modified Practice Attitudes Scale (5-10 minutes)
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(OPTIONAL) Supplementary Videos for Learner
CE Information
American Psychological Association (APA)
Psych Hub is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this course receive 2.00 continuing education credits.Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Psych Hub, #1750, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 4.00 clinical continuing education credits.California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Psych Hub is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CAMFT Approval #1000074. Course meets the qualifications for 2.00 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Psych Hub has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7051. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Psych Hub is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Counselors completing this course receive 3.00 continuing education hours.New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYSED-SW)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0699. New York State social workers completing this course receive 2.00 contact hours.National Association of Social Workers - New Jersey (NASW-NJ)
This course is approved by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative, which is administered by NASW-NJ. CE Approval Collaborative Approval period through August 31, 2024. New Jersey social workers will receive 4.00 Clinical CE credits for participating in this course.Approval #: 10092024-246 CE Credits Approved: Clinical and Social & Cultural Competence
New York State Education Department - Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSED-LMHC)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0257. New York State licensed mental health counselors completing this course receive 2.00 contact hours.New York State Education Department - Marriage & Family Therapists (NYSED-MFT)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0109. New York State marriage and family therapists completing this course receive 3.00 contact hours.New York State Education Department - Psychology (NYSED-PSY)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0208. New York State licensed psychologists completing this course receive 2.00 contact hours.Experts
Emily St. Amant, MA, LPC-MHSP
Emily served as a Clinical Manager at Psych Hub from 2019 to 2021, helping to bridge the gap between research and academia to the practical real-life application of theory and therapeutic interventions. She assisted the team throughout the content development process by reviewing and creating content to ensure it will resonate with her fellow clinicians and be beneficial to all audiences.
Currently Emily works for the American Counseling Association as Counseling Resources and Clinical Education Specialist.Emily is a licensed professional counselor, mental health service provider. She completed her Master’s in Counseling with an emphasis in Mental Health at MidAmerica Nazarene University. She is a Tennessee counseling licensure board approved supervisor and has been designated as a mandatory pre-screening agent.
Before joining Psych Hub, she gained many years of experience in the mental health and substance abuse treatment field, much of which was spent serving as a therapist to a diverse caseload in a community mental health setting. She also has experience in crisis counseling and assessment, intake evaluations for level of care placement, outpatient and inpatient treatment, and utilization review.
Abigail Asper, MSW
Abigail Asper was Psych Hub's Clinical Research Manager from 2019 to 2021. During her time at Psych Hub she was responsible for ensuring that Psych Hub videos and learning hubs are evidence-based, clinically sound, and trauma-informed as well, overseeing Psych Hub content research and continuing education initiatives. Along with lived experience of mental illness and losing a loved one to suicide, Ms. Asper has years of professional experience in mental health, social justice, and clinical settings. She earned a B.S. in Psychology from College of Charleston Honors College and a Master’s in Social Work from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. Before joining the Psych Hub team, she worked as an NGO Representative to the United Nations for the International Federation of Social Workers, a case manager on an assertive community treatment team for older adults with serious mental illnesses, a victim advocate at a rape crisis center, and a phone counselor at a crisis hotline. She is also a published author, editor, and researcher. Most recently, she was an editor of Behavioral Science in the Global Arena, Volume I , a text for which she authored two chapters: “Migrant Adaptation and Well-Being” and “Gender Equity and Reproductive Justice”.
Brandon J. Johnson, MHS
Brandon J. Johnson, MHS, MCHES is a tireless advocate for positive mental health and suicide prevention services for youth and adults across the country. Brandon earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Morgan State University in 2008 and a Master of Health Science Degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. Currently, he serves as a Public Health Advisor at the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the Suicide Prevention Branch at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role, Brandon serves as a Government Project Officer (GPO) for various suicide prevention grant programs that respectively target youth, adults, and health care systems. Brandon is also the GPO for the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) which provides suicide-specific materials, webinars, and training to organizations and communities all over the country working to prevent suicides. Another highlight of Brandon’s career is his current role as the Co-Lead of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Faith Communities Task Force. The group works with faith communities all over the nation to equip them with tools and resources to combat the often stigmatized issue of suicide. Brandon serves as the subject matter expert in suicide among Black people and has lead numerous projects to develop resources and materials to specifically prevent suicide among African-American youth. Brandon is the creator of “The Black Mental Wellness Lounge,” a YouTube channel dedicated to discussing Black mental health and healing. The Black Mental Wellness Lounge is his YouTube page dedicated to the promotion of Black mental health tips, education, and resources for the community. Previously, Brandon served as the Director of Suicide and Violence Prevention for the State of Maryland where he worked in communities throughout the state to help develop strategies to end violence in various forms, such as community violence and human trafficking. In this role, Brandon also worked on the MD Governor’s Commission on Suicide Prevention as well as organized the annual Suicide Prevention Conference.
Amber Calloway, Ph.D.
Dr. Calloway is a research associate at the Penn Collaborative for CBT and Implementation Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Boston and completed her APA internship and a clinical postdoctoral fellowship at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. Much of her work has centered on culturally responsive approaches to the implementation of CBT as well as examining mechanisms and processes of change in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for anxiety disorders in the service of improving treatment effectiveness. At the Penn Collab, Dr. Calloway trains community mental health care providers in transdiagnostic case conceptualization–driven cognitive behavioral therapy. She also coordinates a grant aimed at developing and evaluating efficient, scalable, and non-invasive methods of assessing the quality of CBT. Dr. Calloway is also a staff psychologist at the Center for Anxiety and Behavior Therapy where she provides individual psychotherapy using CBT.