Newly mandated class

(6 hours of continuing education credit in multicultural diversity and law and ethics for the California Board of Psychology and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences)

Saturday, March 25th, 2023, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (1 hour break for lunch)

Tustin Library Multi Purpose Room, 345 E. Main Street, Tustin, CA 92780
Course Description:
Multiculturalism is rapidly becoming recognized as the forth major force in psychology alongside the traditional psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic psychologies.  Central to this course is the idea that we can never know the fullness of anyone else’s cultural identifications and orientations.  In this sense all relationships are cross-cultural encounters.  How can each of us in our professional work learn to open ourselves to differences, to diversity, to ethnicity, to ethnosexuality, to our own prejudices and to prejudices and hatreds aimed at us?
The ground-breaking work of Derald Wing Sue, Allan Ivey, Paul Petersen, Alan Roland, Charles Ridley, Coronel West, Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Geert Hofstede, Neil Altman, RoseMarie Pérez-Foster, Joane Nagel, Takeo Doi, Suarez-Orozco, and numerous others will be considered.  Participants will be encouraged to discuss some of their own cross-cultural encounters in a workshop setting.

Topics:
The importance of defining our own fears and prejudices and working towards overcoming them
Issues surrounding the ethnosexual frontier and how they emerge in the transference/countertransference matrix
Issues in population changes, immigration, class differences, and global diversity
Complications of inter-group prejudice, the dynamics of hatred, and the contributions of fear and uncertainty to inter-ethnic tensions
Racism, racial prejudice, definitions of race and racism, covert and implied racism
Running throughout the course, are issues of laws and ethics, and how they need to be applied in multi cultural diversity settings.

Objectives:
To state how multiculturalism is coming to constitute the fourth force in the clinical disciplines
To formulate the major concerns of multicultural approaches to psychodiagnosis and psychotherapy
To specify what is involved when any two people attempt to bridge their worlds of cultural difference
To define a multi-ethnic approach to interpersonal relationships that denies the objective reality of race while honoring the subjective realities of diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic identities
To define how immigration, children of immigration, central city living, class and ethnic differences all have an impact on clinical practice
To state how to identify the ethnosexual frontier and how it manifests in the transference/countertransference matrix.
To state the many complications necessarily involved in applying laws and ethics in various kinds of culturally diverse situations

Instructor:
Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP is a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice in Orange, California, specializing in the training of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. He is director of the Listening Perspectives Study Center and the founding director of the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute in Tustin, California where he is a supervising and training psychoanalyst. He has been awarded honorary membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Hedges is author of numerous papers and books including Cross- cultural Encounters: Bridging Worlds of Difference (2013), Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy (1983 & 2003), Interpreting the Countertransference (1992), Strategic Emotional Involvement (1996), and Facing the Challenge of Liability in Psychotherapy: Practicing Defensively (2000 & 2007). To learn more about Dr. Hedges and his work, go to www.listeningperspectives.com

Cost: General $150
NPI Members $130