The Cultural Competency Conference (CCC) is an example of 海角乱伦鈥檚 commitment to preparing our students to work with the diversity of clients they will meet in clinical practice.
Topics for last year鈥檚 conference 鈥� including 鈥淏uilding Competency: Considerations When Working with Arab Americans & Muslim Americans;鈥� 鈥淓xploring Cultural Competency with an Invisible Orientation: Asexuality;鈥� 鈥淟atina/o/x Psychology, Cultural Resilience, & Working with听Latin@s听in Therapy;鈥� 鈥淐ounseling Jewish American in the Age of the Alt-Right;鈥� and 鈥淣eurodiversity: From Deficit to Celebrated Difference鈥� 鈥� reflect the breadth of cultural possibilities that our students need to prepare for in order to be effective clinicians.
All the clinical skills in the world cannot prepare a new psychologist who is unaware of his cultural blind-spots and biases. In our increasingly diverse world, it is easy to take difference for granted and to forget how much we don鈥檛 know. Especially about cultures that seem familiar, but are virtually unknown.
If you are knowledgeable and/or immersed in a cultural community and are interested to gain valuable presentation and public speaking experience, it鈥檚 not too late to make a proposal.
When you propose, you will be asked to describe your/your team鈥檚 previous relevant experiences, research, and education in relation to your presentation topic. And, your proposal must also identify the APA guidelines from the听听(see pp. 4-5) that you (and/or your team) are competent in with regards to the population in which you are presenting on.
The CCC committee will accept proposals to present at this year鈥檚 CCC until February 1, 2020. Example proposals and an outline are provided. Still unsure? Check out this student experience about presenting last year.