CEU's will be provided for this event.**

Clinical supervisors are not socially or culturally neutral since they too must become aware of the role that their cultural assumptions and preferences play in the therapy and the supervisory encounter. This webinar addresses the urgent need of both providers and supervisors to address cultural diversity and social equity by offering a multidimensional comparative ecological framework (MECA) useful when working with a wide variety of sociocultural groups. The framework presents non-stereotyped multicultural road maps, clinical illustrations and new tools to work in supervision situations. These new tools facilitate moving from expert, hierarchical, directive and prescriptive model of supervision towards a view of supervision as co-vision. This new model involves curiosity, respect, and transparency about cultural values and social location for both the supervisor and the supervisee in ways that integrate cultural humility and awareness of power differentials at all levels of the clinical practice encounter.

Learning Objectives for Clinicians and Supervisors

A. Learn the concepts and tools of a Multidimensional Ecological Comparative Approach (MECA) for assessment, treatment and co-vision practices that integrate issues of Migration; Ecological Stressors, Family Organization and Family Life Cycle.

B. Use MECA to facilitate self-examination on the part of the provider and the supervisor about personal and professional biases that may affect one’s work with families or with supervisees.

C. Discuss the benefits and risks of replacing cultural competence with cultural humility as the basis of how to work towards collaboration al all levels by centering the voice of low income clients in their own treatment.

Who should attend? This is an intermediate level webinar designed for mental health providers including psychologists, clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and graduate level students in the mental health field who are interested in learning about the vulnerabilities and uniqueness of this period.

About the speaker:

Celia Jaes Falicov, PhD- Celia Jaes Falicov, Ph.D, is an internationally known family therapy author, teacher and clinician. She is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health and is Director of Mental Health Services at the Student Run Free Clinics of the University of California San Diego. Past President of the American Family Therapy Academy. She has pioneered writings on cultural, immigration and sociopolitical perspectives in family therapy theory, clinical practice, supervision and training and has received many professional awards for this work. Her recent books are Latino Families in Therapy, 2nd edition (2014) and the co-authored Multiculturalism and Diversity in Clinical Supervision (APA 2014). Dr Falicov’s two most recent articles (2020) focus on Centering the Voice of Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Clients and on Expanding Possibilities with Under resourced Immigrants during Covid-19.

**CEUs:

California Psychological Association is an approved APA CE provider. 

Antioch University Santa Barbara is an approved CPA CE provider.

CE for licensed 

-psychologists

-marriage and family therapists

-clinical social workers

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