Cultural adaptations are systematic changes to existing treatment processes or protocols that incorporate the values, beliefs, assumptions, and language(s) of a culture or group for the purpose of making treatments more accessible, relevant, and effective (Bernal et al., 2009; Bernal & Domenech Rodríguez, 2012). Professional guidelines consider the best treatment to be one that reflects the client’s needs and expectations within their cultural context (American Psychological Association [APA], 2006). The main goals of the presentation are to help educators and supervisors train clinicians to culturally adapt existing evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for the Latinx populations they serve; describe an array of cultural adaptation models, frameworks, and methods; highlight the benefits and challenges of undertaking cultural adaptations; and provide recommendations and resources to culturally adapt and implement an existing EBT.
Registrants who fully attend this event or training will be eligible to receive a certificate of attendance via email within two weeks after the event or training. Certificates are managed by the hosting agency, ASPIN.
Oscar Fernando Rojas Perez, PhD
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Dr. Rojas Perez is an associate research scientist at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his doctorate from the counseling psychology program at the University of Missouri and completed his pre-doctoral internship at La Clínica Hispana in the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology. Broadly, his professional contributions focus on the development and cultural/linguistic adaptation of measures and interventions, Latinx immigrant well-being and trauma, multicultural responsive training, and public policy advocacy. Within this, he is interested in (a) identifying cultural strengths and methods of healing, (b) using culturally responsive approaches focus on equity and liberation, and (c) improving the implementation of mental health interventions. Rojas Perez’s work has been presented at multiple national and international conferences. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including three American Psychological Association fellowships, the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Latinx Psychological Association, and the Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Young Alumnus Award from the University of California Irvine. Rojas Perez is also an affiliate of the NIMH funded Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS Clinical and Health Services Research Core at Yale University and fellow of the NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute. Clinically, he is licensed in the state of CT and has extensive experience providing evidence-based interventions (e.g., Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Prolonged Exposure Therapy) to a diverse client population (e.g., undocumented immigrants, refugee/asylum seekers, monolingual Spanish-speaker, etc.) in a variety of settings. Rojas Perez currently serves as the Senior Policy Advisor for the National Latinx Psychological Association.
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The Great Lakes MHTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
