CULTURE BOUND SYNDROMES – determining the difference between what is culture-bound and what is not.

CULTURE BOUND SYNDROMES – determining the difference between what is culture-bound and what is not.
CULTURE BOUND SYNDROMES – determining the difference between what is culture-bound and what is not.
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CULTURE BOUND SYNDROMES – determining the difference between what is culture-bound and what is not.

Dr Tracy Westerman’s ‘CULTURE BOUND SYNDROMES – determining the difference between what is culture-bound and what is not’ with Q & A
Indigenous Psychological Services (IPS) has been at the forefront of research, development and delivery of cultural competency programs since 1998.

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In these terms and conditions, ‘you’ means the person attending (virtually or in-person) the workshop named in the registration or substituted in accordance with the terms and conditions, and ‘paying agency’ means the person or agency responsible for payment named in the registration.

REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT
1. By submitting this registration, you and the paying agency will be regarded as having made a firm and irrevocable booking, and agree to these terms and conditions. You warrant that you have the authority of the agency to submit the registration and to bind the agency to these terms and conditions.
2. Once the registration has been submitted, a tax invoice will be issued to the paying agency, which will be responsible for payment of the workshop fees named in your registration form. These are payable within 14 days of the issue date of the invoice, and funds must be cleared at least 2 full business days before training commences.
3. In the event that training is booked in the last week prior to commencement, payment must be made by credit card.

SUBSTITUTIONS & TRANSFERS TO OTHER WORKSHOPS
4. Places are not refundable or changeable to another workshop location within 21 days of Workshop date, however, places are able to be transferred to another participant from your agency to attend in your place. You must notify the agency in writing at the earliest opportunity and at least 72 hours before the workshop begins so our administration team can process the transfer.
5. Transfer of workshop registrations to a different date or location at least 21 days out may be made only if the workshops both take place in the same calendar year. If you wish to transfer your registration to a different workshop date or location, you must notify the agency in writing at least 21 days before the workshop from which you wish to transfer begins.
6. Workshops can only be transferred ‘like to like’ – meaning that you are only able to transfer an ‘in person workshop’ to an ‘in person workshop’ or a ‘virtual workshop’ to a ‘virtual workshop’ once registration occurs. This is due to the costs associated of hosting both training formats in tandem for our clients.

CANCELLATION
7. In the event that for any reason you cancel your registration, workshop fees are not refundable. IPS acknowledges personal circumstances may prevent you from attending (including medical conditions, emergencies, transport difficulties, severe weather conditions or other events beyond the control of IPS), but you and the paying agency acknowledge the logistics of event management prevents IPS from assuming responsibility for these contingencies.
8. Whilst IPS will endeavour to ensure all workshops proceed, IPS reserves the right to cancel workshops for any reason, including insufficient registrations. If workshops are cancelled by IPS, full refunds of workshop fees only will be provided. IPS will not be liable to you or the paying agency for any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred as a result of the cancellation. You or any substituted delegate are strongly advised to book fully refundable or variable airfares and accommodation for in-person workshops.

CHANGES AND POSTPONEMENT
9. IPS reserves the right to alter the workshop program, venue and timing at any time. IPS will not be liable for any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by you or the paying agency in the event of it being necessary, for whatever reason, to change the location or timing of the workshop.
10. Whilst IPS will use every endeavour to hold the workshop at the venue and on the dates specified in the registration form, any refund of registration fees requested as a result of changes to the workshop program, venue or scheduled workshop dates will be at the discretion of IPS.

 

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CULTURE BOUND SYNDROMES – determining the difference between what is culture-bound and what is not

WITH ONE OF AUSTRALIAS LEADING PSYCHOLOGISTS, DR TRACY WESTERMAN AM
VIRTUAL REMOTE WORKSHOP WITH Q & A

ONE DAY - from 9 AM – 4 PM Western Standard Time (WST), listed as below:

- VIRTUAL - June 12th, 2025

$700 per person

Dr Tracy Westerman AM, one of Australia’s leading psychologists is offering a series of one day workshops on some of her most in demand topics around complex racial trauma, mental health, suicide prevention, depression, grief and identity and attachment. These workshops can be completed as ‘stand alone trainings’ or in combination with each other. You can register for as many of the individual programs as you wish.

Dr Westerman is a Nyamal woman from Pilbara, WA, and a trailblazer in Aboriginal mental health, cultural competency, and suicide prevention. She was the first Aboriginal person to attain a master's and PhD in Clinical Psychology. This series of master class workshops is intended to combine Dr Westerman’s new and emerging research with her most in demand trainings but to expand these topics to ensure a greater depth of exploration.

This Session:

  • 9am - 3pm Virtual live delivery over Zoom
  • 3pm - 4pm The afternoon session is an open Q & A session on complex clients that participants are able to ask of Dr Westerman. This will be a moderated session with questions sent in prior to the workshop.

This module will guide participants through the evidence for Culture Bound Syndromes. drawing heavily on the seminal paper by Dr Westerman on Culture Bound Syndromes in Aboriginal Australian populations (Culture-bound syndromes in Aboriginal Australian populations). This paper provided the first Australian evidence base of the cultural manifestations of unwellness and ensures that assessment is able to incorporate cultural elements into existing clinical frameworks. The module explores several concepts around cultural engagement with identity and with cultural difference to ensure culturally competent assessment and practice with Aboriginal clients. The concept of cultural identity and its role in suicide and mental health risk assessment as well as prevention and treatment efforts. It explores identity at individual level, providing practitioners with awareness of the need to explore this as a primary aspect of client engagement.

At the end of this you should be able to:

  • Learn about the limitations of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) in the mental health assessment of Aboriginal Australians
  • Learn about culture-bound syndromes and their evidence in Aboriginal Australian populations
  • Learn how to incorporate cultural factors into diagnostic formulation through Dr Westerman’s work that provides a critical analysis of the DSM-IV Outline for Cultural Formulation (“OCF”) for the Aboriginal Australian context and walks participants through these steps with an applied case example of a young Aboriginal client experiencing spiritual visits
  • Learn the difference between cultural grieving and how to distinguish this from clinical disorders of psychoses and schizophrenia
  • Participants will learn about individual difference in beliefs, cultural practices and identity formation
  • Understand cultural connection and disconnection and its role in mental ill health and suicide prevention
  • Recognise the importance of developing comfort with discussing cultural identity as a critical starting point to client assessment and ‘treatment’ planning.
  • Understand the value of assessing individual beliefs at the first point of engagement
  • Learn how to engage with Aboriginal clients in discussion about cultural identity
  • Learn the important components of cultural identity and what research confirms
  • Participants will be accredited in the Acculturation Scale for Aboriginal Australians (ASAA: Westerman, 2003) as a method of assessment
  • Learn how to use the ASAA for engagement, psychological assessment (cognitive and mental health), and intervention programs
  • Learn about the different theoretical models of Acculturation including Assimilation; Separation; Integration and Marginalisation and the relationship with mental health outcome with Aboriginal people
  • The use of the ASAA in an applied case study – assessing the difference between psychoses and being sung/cursed in assessment.

TO SEE WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS HAVE TO SAY CLICK HERE.

* By attending all 6 of the One Day Virtual Workshops in 2025 you will achieve Accreditation in the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist Youth and Adults (WASC-Y & WASC-A). You must attend all 6 to achieve accreditation.

Additional information

Date of virtual workshop:

June 12th, 2025
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