Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Clinical Practice: Ethically Sound Approaches for Culturally Responsive Care

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Latasha Matthews, MA, LPC, CPCS, CPLC Related seminars and products

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Latasha Matthews MA, LPC, CPCS, CPLC, specializes in private practice development and counselor development. She is the author of The Dumping Ground: A Guide to Gaining Powerful Skills to Set Life-Changing Boundaries. In addition, Ms. Matthews is an adjunct professor at Shorter University, Atlanta, and the owner of Illumination Counseling and Coaching, LLC. She is the co-founder of Pieces that Fit, Inc. a 501(3)(c) organization that provides support for cultural diversity, mental health, academic success, and life skills.

 

With over 20 years of experience in the human services field, Ms. Matthews has a wealth of knowledge, experience, and passion that she loves to share with the world. She develops and conducts several workshops and educates counselors across the nation. She provides consultation, mentorship, and internships to clinicians as often as she can. She serves as a committee member on the board for certified professional counselor supervisors from the State of Georgia.

 

Ms. Matthews earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resources from the University of Akron and her MA in Professional Counseling and Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from Argosy University. Her professional memberships include: the American Counseling Association, Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia, and Chi Sigma Iota.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Latasha Matthews is the owner and director of Illumination Counseling and Coaching, LLC. She is an adjunct professor at Shorter University and Messiah College. Latasha Matthews receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Latasha Matthews is a member of the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education, the American Counseling Association, the Association of Marriage and Family therapists, and the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia.

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Objectives

1. Examine and evaluate the impact of Diversity Equity and Inclusion on the Mental health profession.
2. Analyse the ethical implications of personal limitations, personal values and biases on clinical practice.
3. Explore how DEI and personal values impact your work with clients.
4. Determine how to use cultural humility as a best practice in clinical practice.
5. Hypothesise treatment modalities to ensure goodness of fit when working with diverse clients.
6. Examine common ethical dilemmas faced in working with diverse populations.

Outline

Embedding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ethically Into your Practice

• Defining DEI
• Those around you who affect your personal bias
• Complete a self-reflection and personal bias assessment
• Common ethical challenges
• Research limitations and risks

Microaggressions and stereotypes

• The role of Practitioners in implementing systemic change through the lens of DEI
• Common microaggressions that exist within the clinical practice
• Insight into stereotypes and ways to combat them
• Ethical implications of microaggressions and stereotypes
• Understand the need for multicultural practices to include reducing prejudice

Systemic change through DEI

• Becoming a system change agent
• Create an environment promoting and supporting client success
• Ethical and socially responsive decision making
• Ways systemic racism manifests in clinical practice
• Promote equity and access for all clients
• Identify the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to address systemic barriers to access in clinical practice

Cultural Humility

• Understanding cultural humility
• Insights and focus on allyship, advocacy and social justice
• Increase awareness of how worldviews may influence the ability to understand, empathise and work effectively with diverse clients

Ethical implications of providing support for culturally diverse in Clinical Practice

• How personal values impact your work with clients
• Top tips for addressing therapeutic alliance and ruptures when working with differences between client and therapist
• Treatment modalities to ensure goodness of fit when working with diverse clients
• Common ethical dilemmas faced in working with diverse clients
• Building healthy boundaries
• DEI Case studies

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Psychologists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Other Mental Health Professionals