Exploring the Subtleties of Human Groups: Understanding the Importance of Cultural in Practice

9:00 am to 12:00 pm EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Karen Landmann, LCSW

NASW-NYS Members: FREE

NASW Other Chapter Member: $60

Non-Members: $75

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description

With cultural sensitivity more important than ever, mental health practitioners must be equipped with a culturally competent framework. Now, increasingly, cultural sensitivity is of paramount importance in the clinical space. Current discourse, appropriately, has centered on marginalized groups finding a voice.

This workshop aims to stretch the present dialogue into aspects of culture that mental health practitioners encounter in the clinical setting including immigration status, country of origin, subculture/tribe of origin, mother tongue, ethnicity, race, and skin color. Subtleties will be explored at the foundational level: for example, the difference between being a Ugandan who speaks Luganda vs. a Ugandan who speaks Lusoga. A worldwide perspective will be embraced and complexities will be examined.

Participants will be encouraged to reflect upon their own culture, in which each of us is a unique individual, in order to understand processes that clients go through more deeply and to ascertain the impact of their own culture on the professional relationship, whatever it may be.  

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Develop a high-level awareness of the importance of culture
• Distinguish between different aspects of culture
• Demonstrate and incorporate into practice increased cultural sensitivity
• Describe the relationship between culture and oppression

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Karen Landmann, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Manhattan. Educated at Columbia University, she has been in the field for 27 years. Her clientele consists primarily of persons dealing with depression, trauma, and chronic illness. They come from a great variety of ethnic and cultural origins. Ms. Landmann, an immigrant to the United States herself, is multicultural, speaks 16 languages, and has lived or traveled in every continent except Australia and Antarctica. She completed a study program in the Soviet Union in 1989, and a Canadian program similar to the Peace Corps in Suriname in South America in 1991-92. Her original curriculum for AIDS orphans is being used in over 60 countries. She has worked in Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Paris, Malaysia, and the Dominican Republic on assignments relating to this curriculum. Karen has conducted CE presentations at NYU Silver School of Social Work Office of Global and Lifelong Learning, National Association of Social Workers New York City (NASW-NYC), Hudson Valley Professional Development, and GoodTherapy. She has a keynote conference presentation at Convenings of Crisis Intervention Personnel under her belt, as well as numerous peer-reviewed publications, including Psychoanalytic Social Work and a book chapter in “Poverty and Street Children in East Africa” (Edward Mellen Press).