About this course
Achieving effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapy across a diversity of patients continues to be a foremost concern of mental health providers given ongoing mental health disparities based on specific identity factors (Asnaani, 2023a). Yet, there remains a scarcity of empirical data testing specific features that most readily facilitate effective collaboration in a multi-cultural therapy relationship (Asnaani & Hofmann, 2012). Importantly, the ways to integrate culturally-sensitive approaches into evidence-based treatments still eludes many of us in the field.
Cross-cultural or multi-cultural therapy and research has typically been separated from “mainstream” clinical psychology (Lau et al., 2010; Hays, 2016), leaving clinical psychologists confused about how to actually implement evidence-based treatments (in the absence of specific, tested cultural modifications) in a way that is most effective for reaching individuals from a range of intersectional demographic backgrounds and identities.
This workshop aims to enhance professional competency in providing multi-cultural, evidence-based therapy using empirically-derived guidelines (Asnaani, 2023b) that can assist clinical psychologists of varying expertise levels in the field in navigating these processes. This workshop is likely to appeal to the exponentially growing number of clinicians wishing to implement evidence-based treatments in a culturally-competent manner, and also supervisors who wish to have more guidance on how to most effectively raise such issues with their own supervisees.
