**This is a private training not opened to our community**

Goals and Objectives

Section Goal:

1. Provide resources for clinicians and other mental health services provider that might be helpful in the provision of culturally responsive mental health services.

2. Educate and provide basic training on the use of the Cultural Formulation Interview as an assessment tool.

Section Objectives:

1. Identify resources that may facilitate the incorporation of culture as part of assessment, case formulation, and treatment.

2. Promote the use of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) when providing mental health services for Hispanic and Latino populations.

3. Identify usefulness of cultural case formulations when working with Hispanic and Latino populations with mental health disorders.

DSM-5 provides an outline for a cultural formulation to supplement the diagnostic assessment. This allows the provider to assess the effect that cultural issues will have on treatment. The cultural formulation provides a framework to assess the cultural identity of the individual, the individual’s cultural conceptualizations of distress, psychosocial stressors and cultural features of vulnerability and resilience, and cultural features of the relationship between the individual and the provider, and the overall cultural assessment for diagnosis and care.

Who should attend? This is a basic level workshop designed for mental health providers including psychologists, clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and graduate level students in the mental health field.

About the presenter: 

Haner Hernández, PhD, CPS, CADCII, LADCI - Dr. Hernández is originally from Puerto Rico, is bilingual and has worked for 32 years in the health and human service field developing, implementing, and evaluating culturally and linguistically intelligent youth and adult health prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery support programs. Also, Dr. Hernández has many years of experience in delivering addiction counseling and clinical supervision to professionals in the field. Furthermore, he is a professional trainer and facilitator and provides individualized technical assistance and support to organizations that provide addiction prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery supports.

Haner earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Services from Springfield College and a Master of Education with concentrations in Counseling Psychology and Addiction Studies from Cambridge College in Massachusetts. His doctoral degree was earned at the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His major was Community Health Education and his minor was Social Justice Education. In addition, Mr. Hernandez holds an advance Certification in Drug and Alcohol Counseling at the reciprocal level, is licensed in Massachusetts, and is a Certified Prevention Specialist.

Please read the following before registering: 

• The National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center use GoToWebinar as our online event system. 

• Audio for the event is accessible via the internet. To receive audio, attendees must join the event by using computers equipped with speakers or dial in via telephone. 

• After registration, a confirmation email will be generated with instructions for joining the event. To avoid problems with log-in, please use the confirmation email to join the event.