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Explore bias and increase awareness for working across cultures
Presented by Kelly Koo, PhD
2 CEs available
Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!
This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.
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PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.
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Workshop Description
As social beings, we clinicians will inevitably engage in interpersonally biased behaviors. Cultural humility is an approach we can apply to clinical practice that allows us to accept this inevitability, and yet put our efforts into building awareness and an intentional practice that can support preventing biased behaviors. This training will facilitate a nonjudgmental understanding of how our behaviors exist within the contexts of our social worlds and therefore will at times be biased, irrelevant of intentions. The nonjudgmental stance will include an overview of the rationale of why it is both difficult and important to discuss microaggressions/biased behaviors in therapy. Participants will learn a framework that supports a mindful (vs. mindless) response to when we commit, observe, or are told about a microaggression/biased behavior in a clinical setting, in order to engage in active and intentional repair and be accountable for our actions, especially when in positions of power, i.e., the therapist. These will be framed as acts of cultural humility.
This training is intended for an intermediate or advanced therapist audience given the time constraint of this training does not allow for a comprehensive review of the rationale for why identity factors are important in clinical care nor will the research evidence of the harmful impacts of microaggressions or other biased behaviors and discriminatory acts be reviewed. In other words, agreement with the importance of identity and societal factors in effective psychotherapy is necessary as this training’s focus will not be to persuade participants into considering identities in clinical practice. This training is designed to increase willingness to discuss these sometimes avoided topics to support building a therapeutic alliance that includes the consideration of the unavoidable factors of our identities to promote interactions with cultural humility. despite insight, effort, and prior treatment.
Educational Goals
Cultural humility is an approach that allows us to accept our imperfect humanness and put our best efforts into building awareness and an intentional practice that can support preventing biased behaviors. This training will facilitate a nonjudgmental understanding of how our behaviors exist within the contexts of our social worlds, and therefore will at times be biased. Participants will learn a framework that supports a mindful (vs. mindless) response to when we commit, observe, or are told about a microaggression/biased behavior in a clinical setting, in order to engage in active and intentional repair.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Describe cultural humility and its relevance to effective clinical care
- Explain a nonjudgmental rationale for common avoidance reactions to biased behaviors/microaggressions
- Apply an accountability-based framework to mindfully responding to microaggressions in clinical care
Presenter Kelly Koo, PhD
Kelly Koo, Ph.D. (she/her) is a clinical psychologist, licensed in California (PSY27845) and has 20 years of experience facilitating vulnerable and connecting dialogue on identity, power, and oppression to advance equity. She has multiple peer-reviewed publications primarily focused on identity, culture, and trauma. Kelly received her bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley and her MS and PhD from the University of Washington. Dr. Koo spent almost 10 years supporting the mental health of diverse veterans in the Veterans Affairs health care systems in the Bay Area. Currently, Dr. Koo provides consultation, training, and coaching for individuals, teams, leaders, and organizations, supporting the mental health of diverse communities through an equity and inclusion lens. Specifically, Kelly provides clinical consultation and coaching for clinicians who seek to provide clinical care with a deep awareness of and intentionality away from bias. She also serves as the Graduate Medical Education staff psychologist at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, where she provides strategic mental health programming and direct mental health care for all resident physicians. Kelly also provides clinical supervision for PsyD students at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA., and in her private practice, Dr. Koo provides evidence-based psychotherapy for diverse adults with trauma, using a cultural humility framework. To learn more about Dr. Koo, visit her website www.drkellykoo.com.
Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.
You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).
Date: Friday, March 13
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific
Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members.
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
- Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
- Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
- Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
- Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.
- Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
- Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
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