ABOUT
The South Southwest MHTTC provides training and technical assistance to strengthen the behavioral health workforce and address inequities in the mental health field. By highlighting cultural and linguistic responsiveness, the MHTTC works to ensure that all population groups receive respectful, understandable, and appropriate services. Recognizing and tailoring approaches to the unique values, beliefs, and customs of each community helps organizations promote better mental health outcomes not only for the overall local community but also for each smaller cultural group.
RESOURCES
Cultural Formulation Interview Series:
- Session 1: The Value of Person-Centered Cultural Assessment in Clinical Practice with Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, MD & Dr. Neil Krishan Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA; Harvard University / New York State Psychiatric Institute
- Session 2: The Core Cultural Formulation Interview: Development, Research, and Implementation with Dr. Neil Krishan Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA & Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, MD; New York State Psychiatric Institute / Harvard University
- Session 3: Using the Cultural Formulation Interview with Children and Adolescents with Dr. Martin LaRoche, PhD; Harvard University. Boston Children’s Hospital at Martha Eliot
- Session 4: Working with Families with the Cultural Formulation Interview with Dr. Cécile Rousseau, MD.; Professor of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada.
LGBTQ Curriculum Package:
Creating Affirming Environments for LGBTQ People Receiving Services (Training)
Creating Affirming Environments for LGBTQ People Receiving Services provides an overview of terms, concepts, and identities that people working in the behavioral health field should know to provide affirming services and cultivate affirming environment for LGBTQ people. Based on a 2018 report from the Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health, titled Peers in Research: Interventions for Developing LGBTQ-Affirmative Behavioral Health Services in Texas, most providers in Texas do not hold overtly prejudicial attitudes towards LGBTQ clients, but that most providers either lack the knowledge and skills to provide appropriate care to LGBTQ clients or are not aware of the importance of LGBTQ-affirming care. This training aims to bridge the gap many providers feel by offering basic information, resources, and guidance for people working in behavioral health agencies on how to support LGBTQ people receiving services.
Co-created by: Darcy Kues, JD., and Shane Whalley, MSSW
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Define many current terms used in the LGBTQ communities;
• Understand the foundation of sexual orientation and gender;
• Recognize the unique impacts of trauma on the LGBTQ communities;
• Communicate using an affirming framework with LGBTQ people receiving services; and
• Implement at least one LGBTQ-affirming organizational/environmental change.
For more information on this training, including training opportunities through the South Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center or how to bring this training to your community, please email southsouthwest@mhttcnetwork.org.
Gender Diversity in a New Decade: Affirmative Care with Transgender and Non-Binary Persons
This previously recorded webinar aims to increase participants’ understanding of the diversity of gender expression, gender identity, and biological sex. We will strive to expand attendees’ knowledge beyond the gender binary by providing an overview of community experiences, identity markers and meanings, research related to the construct of gender minority stress, and potential differences in journeys for binary transgender and non-binary transgender persons. We will also touch on current events and how transgender community members are being impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
Browning Counseling: Working with Latinx Clients
Please note that the webinar and materials related to this session originally aired on December 9, 2021. In this webinar, we discussed an integrative approach to working in a culturally responsive manner with Chicanx/Latinx populations and highlight tools related to “Browning” your counseling. An awareness of how traditional/individualistic concepts in mental health can be culturally incongruent for Chicanx/Latinx populations was also explored.
Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness in Telehealth
This brief identifies issues to consider when conducting mental health services and supports through telehealth with culturally diverse communities and provides strategies to ensure that the national Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards continue to drive efforts towards culturally competent care.
Zooming In: Creating Equitable and Inclusive Online Events
As we’re all adapting activities, meetings and content to online platforms, we want to ensure that accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion are a priority. This product provides a list of suggestions regarding equitable and inclusive practices for online events. It will guide you through things to consider while evaluating dates and times for your event, the registration process, marketing and communications materials, inviting speakers and reach out for attendees, trauma informed considerations and final feedback with the organizing team and participants.
Structural Racism and Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities
This video was recorded on March 25, 2021 as a part of the South Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Regional Advisory Board.
Structural racism is the main driver of mental health inequities and poor mental health outcomes, and yet, few understand the outsized role that structural racism places in the identification, diagnosis, and management of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. This presentation will examine key concepts associated with structural racism, will provide clear examples of how structural racism manifests in our mental health care system, and will discuss strategies for dismantling structural racism in our communities and institutions.
Engaging American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Relatives in Psychotherapy
The materials for this Product originally aired on July 22, 2021.
Developing cultural competence is an aspirational journey.
This training will support your efforts to increase your understanding of Native culture. The training will also provide clinicians with practical tips for improving engagement with this population, in order to improve clinical outcomes with your American Indian/Alaska Native clients.
- Video Recording
- Slides
- Resource Booklet
- Book Resource on BPD: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Flexible Treatment Plan for Clients with Emotion Dysregulation Paperback | December 1, 2020 by Patricia E. Zurita Ona PsyD (Author), Dr. Russ Harris (Foreword)
Mental Health Resources for Native & Indigenous Peoples
This is a comprehensive document that includes mental health resources specifically for Native and Indigenous people. It includes resources for crisis support, general and specific mental health needs, therapist locators, and mental health facts and information, as well as resources for awareness, education, and mental health practitioners.
