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Course Description:
Multiculturalism is rapidly becoming recognized as the fourth major force in psychology alongside the traditional psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic psychologies. Central to this course is the idea that we can never know the fullness of anyone else’s cultural identifications and orientations. In this sense all relationships are cross-cultural encounters. How can each of us in our professional work learn to open ourselves to differences, to diversity, to ethnicity, to ethnosexuality, to our own prejudices and to prejudices and hatreds aimed at us?
The ground-breaking work of Derald Wing Sue, Allan Ivey, Paul Petersen, Alan Roland, Charles Ridley, Coronel West, Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Geert Hofstede, Neil Altman, RoseMarie Pérez-Foster, Joane Nagel, Takeo Doi, Suarez-Orozco, and numerous others will be considered. Participants will be encouraged to discuss some of their own cross-cultural encounters in an intermediate workshop setting.
Course Outline:
9:00AM – 10:30AM
I. Introduction: Culture and Context
- Four Approaches to Developing Cross-cultural Competency
- Preliminary Definitions and Biases
- The Global Multicultural Movement
- American Ethnicity
- Bridging Worlds of Difference
- Evolutionism, Universalism, Relativism in Multicultural Studies
- Multiculturalism as a Fourth Psychological Dimension
10:30AM – 12:00PM
- A Theory of Multicultural Therapy
- Cross-cultural Countertransference
- Ethics in a Multicultural Context
- Cultural and Ethnic Self-Assessment
- A Danger Inherent in Multiculturalism
12:00PM – 1:00PM Lunch Break
1:00PM – 2:30PM
II. Listening Perspectives for Cross-cultural Encounters
Perspective 1: Five Dimensions of Culture
Perspective 2: The Mimetic Evolution of Culture
Perspective 3: The Post-modern/Social Constructionism
Perspective 4: Ethnicity and Sexuality
Perspective 5: Urban Life: Poverty, Adversity, Immigration,
Exposure to Racism and Post-Traumatic Stress
2:30PM - 3:40PM
Perspective 6: Transgenerational Transmission: Positional
and Internalized Ghosts
Perspective 7: Difference, Hatred, and Discrimination
Perspective 8: Cross-cultural Diagnosis and Therapy
Perspective 9: Attachment, Intersubjectivity, and The Present Moment
Perspective 10: Relational Psychotherapy and Thirdness
3:40PM - 4:00PM
III. Case Illustrations, Closing Discussion and Course Evaluation
Learning Goals:
- State how multiculturalism is coming to constitute the fourth force in the clinical disciplines
- List four major concerns of multicultural approaches to psychodiagnosis and psychotherapy
- Explain what is involved when any two people attempt to bridge their worlds of cultural difference
- Describe what a multi-ethnic approach to interpersonal relationships looks like that denies the objective reality of race while honoring the subjective realities of diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic identities.
- List three ways that diversity must be recognized in psychotherapy ethics.
- State the differences in the three approaches to multicultural ethics: 1) divergent ethics (relativism), 2) convergent ethics (absolutism), and 3) dynamic ethics (universalism)
- State the main danger in Multicultural approaches
About the Instructor:
Lawrence Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP., began seeing patients in 1966 and completed his training in child psychoanalysis in 1973. Since that time his primary occupation has been training and supervising psychoanalysts and psychotherapists individually and in groups on their most difficult cases. He was the Founding Director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in 1983 where he continues to serve as supervising and training analyst. Throughout his career Dr. Hedges has provided continuing education courses for psychotherapists throughout the United States and abroad. He has consulted or served as expert witness on more than 400 complaints against psychotherapists in 20 states and has published 19 books on various topics of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, three of which have received the Gradiva award for best Psychoanalytic book of the year. During the 1909 centennial celebrations of The International Psychoanalytic Association his 1992 book, Interpreting the Countertransference, was named one of the key contributions in the relational track during the first century of psychoanalysis. In 2015 Dr. Hedges was distinguished by being awarded honorary membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association for his many contributions to psychoanalysis through the years.
Fees:
CPA Members - $89.00
OCPA Members - $89.00
Non-Members - $99.00
Students - $19.00
“CPA is co-sponsoring with Orange County Psychological Association. The California Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.”
Important Notice: Those who attend the workshop and complete the CPA evaluation form will receive 6 continuing education credits. Please note that APA CE rules require that we give credit only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.
For more information, please contact Andrew Schwartz, Ph.D. at [email protected].
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