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Culture / Ethnicity / Race

Recovering From a Cultural Rupture in Clinical Practice as a White Clinician

Workshop 9 - Recovering from a Cultural Rupture in Clinical Practice as a White Clinician

Saturday, November 16, 2024
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
Location: 411/412, Level 4, Downtown Marriott
Earn 3 Credit
Ticketed Session
Keywords: Common Elements, Culture, Therapeutic Relationship
Level of Familiarity: Basic to Moderate
Recommended Readings: American Psychological Association (2017). Multicultural Guidelines: An Ecological Approach to Context, Identity, and Intersectionality. Retrieved from:
http://www.apa.org/about/poli cy/multicultural-guidelines.pdf,   Benuto, L. T., Singer, J., Newlands, R. T., & Casas, J. B. (2019). Training culturally competent psychologists: Where are we and where do we need to go? Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 13(1), 56–63. doi: https://doiorg.du.idm.oc lc.org/10.1037/t ep0000214,   Chen, R., Atzil-Slonim, D., Bar-Kalifa, E., Hasson-Ohayon, I., & Refaeli, E. (2018). Therapists’ recognition of alliance ruptures as a moderator of change in alliance and symptoms. Psychotherapy Research, 28(4), 560–570. doi: https://doiorg.du.id m.oclc.org /10.1080/105 03307.2016.1227104,   Eubanks, C. F., Muran, J. C., & Safran, J. D. (2018). Alliance rupture repair: A metaanalysis. Psychotherapy, 55(4), 508-519. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.10
37/pst0000185,   Mekawi, Y., Watson-Singleton, N.N., Dawson, D. (2024). Beyond Fragility: A Skills-Based Guide to Effective Anti-Racist Allyship. PESI Publishing.
To meet the rising mental health needs of a diverse society, White clinicians are tasked with working with clients from different cultural backgrounds. Despite a commitment to cultural humility, racist missteps can occur in the therapeutic relationship and cause cultural ruptures, or strains in the therapeutic alliance. Following a cultural rupture, White clinicians seeking to embody individual-level antiracism advocacy in their practice must carefully reflect on the most effective way forward in order to ensure that they are providing the best care to clients from marginalized racial/ethnic backgrounds. Through this 3-hour workshop, participants will learn about cultural ruptures that occur in clinical practice and how they can effectively recover from this type of rupture. In particular, instructors will explain situations where racist missteps commonly occur. Then, instructors will outline how to tolerate any unpleasant emotions that may arise when confronting such a rupture. Instructors will also outline the critical components needed to effectively repair after a cultural rupture. This workshop instructs participants on how to effectively repair ruptures to embody effective anti-racist allyship in their therapeutic relationships.

Outline:
• Cultural ruptures, or strains in the therapeutic alliance, can occur when a White clinician makes a racist misstep toward a minoritized client during session.
• These ruptures can negatively impact the therapeutic alliance if not handled effectively.
• Workshop participants will learn about cultural ruptures that occur in clinical practice.
• Workshop participants will also learn two skills: one skill to help clinicians tolerate any unpleasant emotions that may arise when coping with a cultural rupture and another skill to effectively repair the cultural rupture.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
  1. Explain reasons why racist missteps occur in clinical practice.
  2. Describe the common racist missteps that occur in clinical practice.
  3. Use distress tolerance skills that are useful for managing unpleasant emotions.
  4. List the critical components of an effective repair plan.
  5. Implement the critical components of an effective repair with clients after a rupture occurs.
  6. Long-term Goal: Participants will be able to effectively respond to and repair cultural ruptures that occur in their sessions to embody anti-racist allyship in their therapeutic relationships.