3 & 4 Day Workshops
Participants complete the Aboriginal Mental Health Cultural Competency Profile, which generates a cultural supervision plan.
The training has evidence of improving cultural competencies of participants.
- Ensuring ‘cultural compatibility’ with clients – learn how cultural difference translates with counselling & engagement of Aboriginal clients
- Assessing the difference between culture-bound syndromes and mental illness using evidence based tests and assessments;
- Understanding the cultural formulation and manifestation of depression. Longing for Country, cultural grieving and how to incorporate resolution and healing with mainstream concepts of grief. Interventions for culture bound depression; how to develop community gatekeepers in the prevention of depression
- ACCREDITATION in the Acculturation Scale for Aboriginal Australians – measuring the relevance of culture: differentiating between “being spiritually sung”/cursed & psychosis
- Black Identity Formation as a model for incorporating identity into treatment planning
- Self-harm and cultural ‘sorry’ cutting – the distinguishing characteristics; cultural grieving & spiritual visits versus psychosis,
- Post-Traumatic Stress – cultural impacts on assessment and treatment. Attachment and cultural parenting – assessing and treating intergenerational trauma from forcible removal
- ACCREDITATION in the Acculturative Stress Scale for Aboriginal Australians – to gauge the impact of racism, marginalization, within group racism (lateral violence) and cultural identity (adjustment)
- ACCREDITATION in the Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist – Youth and Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist – Adults
Inclusions
- Pre-workshop reading material
- Cultural Competency Profile
- Participant workbook of over 200 pages
- Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
- Accreditation in: WASC-Y & WASC-A