Law and Ethics 11: Diversity Humility
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The hours can be used to meet the Law & Ethics requirement or the new California Cultural Diversity mandate.
Each client brings a complex identity and unique gifts. Professional ethics include an appreciation of diversity. Our responsibilities include developing and maintaining cultural sensitivity. We seek to respect the rich differences among our clients, and respond appropriately. This course is designed for psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs and other mental health professions.
Depth psychology has a long history of diversity research. Carl Jung did field work in Africa and India. He explored native American lore with a Pueblo Indian elder. We will also draw on comparative studies done by Joseph Campbell.
Law and Ethics 11 ~ Diversity Competence focuses on ethical issues in cross-cultural psychotherapy. We will discuss the 2017 film Avatar as a story about encountering otherness. Clinicians strive to stay alert to culturally-shaped emotional reactions. Developing inclusive perspectives includes acceptance of inner and outer uniqueness.
Explain ethical issues unique to cross-cultural depth psychology.
Examine how therapists can be seen differently by various cultural groups.
Elucidate behaviors that show respect to culturally different clients.
Describe ethical dimensions in the stages of cultural competence.
Recognize unconscious aspects of working with diverse populations.
Identify ways therapist’s ethics benefit from culturally responsive practices.
The following CE credits are available:
Psychology, LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, Ed Psych, NBCC : 6 CE hours
Nursing : 7 hours
Jonathan Young, PhD is a psychologist (PSY10231) with an international online practice. He teaches at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. His books and articles focus on personal mythology. Dr.Young assisted mythologist Joseph Campbell at seminars and was founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library. He is currently featured in several documentary series on the History Channel.
Anne Bach, M.S., MFT 38891 is a specialist in uses of writing in psychotherapy. She gives presentations on creativity as inner work at major conferences, and lectures widely on psychological dimensions of expressive writing. She also appears in memoir drama performances for various theater groups, including the Marsh Stage in Berkeley. Her clinical background includes poetry therapy with seriously mentally ill patients.
Zoom link goes live at 9:30 a.m., California time - Seminar 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- The psychodynamics of encounters with otherness
- The inner life of working with diverse populations
- Symbolism in stories of encountering otherness
- Demonstrating integrity in dealing with difference
- Writing as a bridge across differences
- Thoughtful behaviors in awkward situations
- Ethical issues in cultural sensitivity
- Repairing as deepening the bond
- Cultivating awareness to avoid liability
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Adams, Michael Vannoy (1996) The Multicultural Imagination: "Race", Color, and the Unconscious. London: Routledge
Brewster, Fanny (2017) African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows. London: Routledge
Duran, Eduardo (2006) Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native People. New York: Teachers College Press
Eleftheriadou, Zack (2018) Psychotherapy and Culture: Weaving Inner and Outer Worlds. London: Routledge
Kawai, Hayao (2006) Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan. Thompson CT: Spring Publications
Sue, Derald Wing (2019) Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice 8th Edition. New York: Wiley
Young, Jonathan (1996) Saga - Best New Writings on Mythology Vol. 1. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press
Young, Jonathan (2000) Saga - Best New Writings on Mythology Vol. 2. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press
