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Fulfills requirement: Diversity and Multicultural Counseling
Mental health professionals increasingly work with clients whose age, disability, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity play a role in the therapeutic process. This course provides clinicians with strategies for delivering effective, culturally responsive care to older adults, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQI+ community.
First, participants will explore several clinical considerations involved in working with older adults – dementia and memory impairment, health conditions, and disabilities, life transitions, identity and loss – and will learn strategies for promoting quality of life, meaning, purpose, and therapeutic engagement. Next, the course addresses disability and mental health and provides participants with clinical approaches to address mobility disabilities, vision impairment and blindness, deafness, and hearing loss. The final section of the course focuses on LGBTQI+ mental health, minority stress, and resilience. Special attention is given to supporting LGBTQI+ youth and applying resilience-based strategies to therapy.
Throughout the course, presenters will help mental health professionals recognize population-specific considerations, strengthen therapeutic relationships, adapt their clinical approach, promote client empowerment, and identify ways to support quality of life and resilience.
Some of the content in this course appears in other Zur Institute courses.
This course will teach the participant to: