Culturally Responsive Behavioral Healthcare: Foundations

• Estimated Course Length: 4 hrs. 1 min.
• CE/CNE Credits: 4.00 continuing education/contact hours for social workers / 2.00 continuing education hours for psychologists and marriage and family therapists / 3.00 continuing education hours for counselors / 4.00 contact hours for nurses
• Target Audience: mental health practitioners and nurses
• Level of Instruction: Intermediate
• Prerequisite: None
• Instructional Method: Self-paced; reading-based course; interactive; hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks
• Accessibility Accommodations: Color contrast; transcripts of video components; closed captioning of audio and video components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.
• Completion Requirements: To obtain your CE certificate, you must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post test quiz. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.
• Financial/Commercial Support Statement: This course has no commercial support.
• Conflict of Interest: This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.
• Grievance and Refund Policies: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.
• Participation Costs: The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.
• Course Creation Date: 2/23/2022

 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Identify key contextual concepts of culture, diversity, marginalization, and intersectionality, and how these play a role in the behavioral health treatment field.   

2. Describe the rationale of moving towards “cultural responsiveness,” a combination of the effective concepts and practices drawn from “cultural competency” and “cultural humility,” and the main ideas, goals, and benefits of culturally responsive care. 

3. Catalog crucial practices and skills to apply cultural responsiveness to one’s clinical work and spheres of influence.

 

TIMED COURSE OUTLINE

Since the course is interactive and each learner will proceed at their own pace, timing is not exact. These are approximations based on average pre/post-test time of pilot testers as well as the run-time of course videos and voiceover. This course does not have to be completed in one session. 

COURSE ACTIVITIES FOR CE CREDIT (≥ 4 HOURS 13 MINUTES)

• Pre-Course Assessment (5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

• Introduction

• Module 1: Context and Key Concepts (~1 hour and 42 minutes)

• Post-Module 1 Assessment (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

• Module 2: Behavioral Healthcare and Culture (~52 minutes)

• Post-Module 2 Assessment (~6 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

• Module 3: Practicing Cultural Responsiveness (~1 hour and 10 minutes)

• Post-Module 3 Assessment (~5 minutes) [EXCLUDED FROM ACTIVITIES FOR NBCC & CAMFT CREDIT]

• Conclusion (~3 minutes)

COURSE ACTIVITIES NOT FOR CE CREDIT

• Participant Evaluation (5-10 minutes)

• Modified Practice Attitudes Scale (5-10 minutes)

• (OPTIONAL) Supplementary Videos for Learner