Course Description

CBT has been criticized for its lack of applicability to multicultural populations; however, CBT shares basic tenets with multicultural counseling that actually make this form of therapy well-suited for individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds. Some of these tenets include an emphasis on personal empowerment, attention to client strengths and support systems, and affirmation of one’s own sense of identity. In this course, you’ll learn several CBT strategies to help improve outcomes among culturally diverse clients, including how to broach culture with clients, how to develop culturally relevant case formulations, and how to identify and modify negative core beliefs, schemas, and compensatory strategies based on internalized oppression and other psychological phenomena.

This course is 100% self-paced and includes 8 hours of on-demand content. You can start at any time and complete all modules all from the convenience of your home.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Increase self-awareness of cultural values, biases, and assumptions that may influence case conceptualization, treatment planning, and clinical practice with culturally diverse clients. 
  2. Broach sociocultural variables with clients during sessions. 
  3. Integrate sociocultural data into case conceptualization and treatment planning. 
  4. Identify and modify negative core beliefs, schemas, and compensatory strategies based on internalized oppression and other psychological phenomena affecting members of culturally diverse backgrounds.
  5. Implement strategies to promote healing from racialized trauma and other sociocultural concerns. 

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Message From the Instructor

    • Learning Objectives
  • 2

    Clinician Awareness

    • Increasing Cultural Knowledge

    • Articulating One’s Own Cultural Worldview

    • Acknowledging Privilege and Bias
  • 3

    Multicultural Orientation

    • Cultural Humility

    • Cultural Comfort

    • Cultural Opportunities
  • 4

    Broaching

    • Intracounseling Broaching

    • Intraindividual Broaching

    • Intra-cultural Broaching

    • Inter-cultural Broaching
  • 5

    Culturally Sensitive Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning

    • The Cognitive Model of Internalized Oppression

    • Articulating Self-Defined Values

    • Replacing Negative Compensatory Strategies

    • Promoting Self-Empowerment
  • 6

    Addressing Internalized Oppression and Other Psychological Phenomena

    • Common Core Beliefs, Schema, and Compensatory Strategies Associated with Internalized Oppression and Other Psychological Phenomena

    • Working with Core Beliefs, Schema, and Compensatory Strategies Associated with Internalized Oppression and Other Psychological Phenomena
  • 7

    Promoting Healing from Racialized Trauma and Other Sociocultural Concerns

    • Reversing the Body’s Trauma Response

    • Community Participation

Pricing

Instructor

Janeé Steele

Dr. Janeé Steele is a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, and diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. Dr. Steele is also the owner and clinical director of Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC, where she provides therapy, supervision, and training in CBT. She is the author of the upcoming book, Racism and African American Mental Health: Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Empower Healing, and the co-author of the upcoming book, Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity, both published through Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Her other scholarly activity includes peer-reviewed articles focused in the areas of CBT, social justice advocacy, and counselor training. Her most recent article, published in the May 2020 issue of the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling and Development, describes cognitive conceptualization and treatment planning using CBT and a proposed cognitive model of internalized racism.