C7: Cross Cultural Counselling: Competencies and Practice (Offered again on Friday morning E7)
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce participant to the core competencies that are necessary to becoming an effective cross cultural counsellor. Using an experimental approach, participants will review the definitions, concepts and frameworks that shape the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of cross cultural counselling practice. They will explore how their social identities and preconceptions of clients’ worldview contribute to the dynamics that arise in counselling relationships, as well as have an impact on service delivery. Attendees will learn about methods of interventions that address the intersectionallity of cross cultural issues at the individual, institutional and community levels.
Deborah G. Headley is the Principle Associate of Network for Therapeutic Alliance, Deborah is an individual and family therapist, trainer and educator who has twenty years of experience working in community and social services, mental health and educational settings. She has taught and developed a curriculum at the college level in the faculty of Community and Social Services and Health Sciences using approaches which enhances students learning and employability. Deborah specializes in working with and teaching about intersectionallity of client issues including sexual/gender and ethno-racial identity issues, sexualized trauma, abuse, partner violence, newcomer family re-unification and trauma resulting from individual/systemic discrimination.
