A Shame-Free Path to Cultural Competence: Rising to the Challenge

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Lambers Fisher, MS, MDiv, LMFT Related seminars and products

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Lambers Fisher, MS, LMFT, MDiv, is a marriage and family therapist who has counseled individuals, couples, and families from a variety of cultural backgrounds, in private practice, non-profit organizations, as well as ministry environments. He has a strong desire to help counseling professionals in various fields feel more comfortable, competent and confident in their ability to meet the needs of whomever they have the opportunity to serve. Lambers' training experience includes facilitating workshops, guest lecturing, as well as being an adjunct instructor at Crown College on various aspects of diversity in counseling.

Lambers is the author of the award-winning book, Diversity in Clinical Practice: A Practical & Shame-Free Guide to Reducing Cultural Offenses & Repairing Cross-Cultural Relationships.

Currently, Lambers is a therapist in private practice where he effectively balances personal and professional experiences to provide unique and practical perspectives on a variety of culturally sensitive topics. Lambers supervises aspiring therapists as a board-approved supervisor for the Minnesota Board of Marriage & Family Therapists as well as the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health. He obtained a Master of Science in Marriage & Family Therapy as well as a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lambers Fisher maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Christian Heart Counseling. He is an adjunct instructor at Crown College. Lambers Fisher receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, recording royalties, and a consulting fee from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lambers Fisher is a member of the American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy and the Minnesota Association for Marriage & Family Therapy.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offences in the therapeutic relationship.  
2. Appraise a greater variety of culturally significant influencing factors on treatment.  
3. Determine how to increase cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions.  
4. Evaluate ways to increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures. 

Outline

Demonstrate the use of clinical strategies to address and reduce cultural offences in the therapeutic relationship. 

• A Client-centered approach to cultural competence 
• Strategies for identifying & addressing microaggressions 

Identify a greater variety of culturally significant influencing factors on treatment. 

• Ethical implications of cultural competence in assessment and treatment 
• Cultural experiences therapists often misunderstand (e.g. ethnicity, diverse families, age, gender, religion) 

Describe how to increase cultural self-awareness and other-awareness to improve rapport building in sessions. 

• Clarifying commonly misunderstood diversity language 
• Application of cultural competence on client rapport as well as advocacy 

Explore ways to increase your confidence in your ability to effectively treat clients from all cultures. 

• Strategies for increased self-awareness and acceptance 
• Reducing barriers of shame and guilt in increasing cultural competence 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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