The Family Immigration Experience: An Assessment and Counseling Tool for Practitioners working with Collectivistic Cultures

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Description: 
The workshop will teach clinicians how to incorporate an assessment of an individual's direct immigration experience and family's immigration experience into the clinical interview. Additionally, the workshop will teach clinicians how to develop treatment plans that account for cultural differences in worldview and address family generational trauma incurred as a result of the family or individual immigration experience. Clinicians will learn how to use the immigration narrative in providing treatment in both individual and family therapy. Countertransference issues, in a culturally matched therapeutic relationship, on the basis of language and gender norms will be addressed . Furthermore, language and cultural competency will be addressed as an ethical imperative. 

Category of Education: D1.1 Assessment/ Evaluation, Intervention

Intended Audience: 

• Psychologists 
• Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors

Content Learning Level: Intermediate

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how to incorporate the family immigration experience into clinical interviewing, treatment planning and treatment application.
• Assess countertransference on the basis of cultural matching or culturally salient gender norms.
• Identify ethical considerations for family therapy within the context of language barriers and/or gender norms