Spanish for Mental Health Professionals Spanish for Therapists Workshops provide mental health professionals the opportunity to develop and refine proficiency in treating Spanish speaking clients · Unique program designed by California licensed Marriage Family Therapist specifically for psychotherapists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists and interns. · Take the Spanish you learned in high school or college and layer with your clinical skills to enable you to begin working with Spanish speaking clients · Opportunity for attention to your current client population using your theoretical orientation or service needs · Interactive, practical and fun! Suggested prerequisite: 4 years of high school Spanish or equivalent.
Weekly Workshops: Fee: $160 per four week block It is suggested to take the workshops in order, but not required. Before the seminars, at 9:30, we have coffee, bagels and networking. We take a one hour break for lunch with good restaurants close walking distance, and have a great time! These seminars are presented in approximately 50% English and 50% Spanish and will be videotaped. Saturday, January 21, 2012, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Fee: $149.00 Practical Spanish for Therapists #1 Date: TBA Fee: $149 Location: Greater Los Angeles t.b.a. Practical Spanish for Therapists #3 Location: Greater Los Angeles t.b.a. Practical Spanish for Therapists # 4 Fee: $149.00 Location: Greater Los Angeles t.b.a.
Questions? email info@spanishformentalhealth.com
Mondays 5:45 - 7:15 p.m.
1600 Rosecrans, Media Center 4th Floor
Manhattan Beach
Thursdays 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
2001 S. Barrington, Suite 204
West Los Angeles
Groups are ongoing, open format, join any time.
These interactive weekly workshops focus on helping you get started with Spanish speaking clients from the initial contact, and are tailored to meet the needs and clinical focus of the therapists participating. Topics include: Presentarse (introducing yourself), vocabulary and verbs used in the therapeutic environment, making and changing appointments, giving common disclosures, starting and ending sessions, open-ended statements and questions, reflecting feeling and meaning, cultural considerations such as personalismo, familismo, consejos, espiritismo; grammatical topics per participants' level of Spanish, live practice with actors and native speakers.
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We are currently offering four different one-day seminars. In each of these, a section is presented in the following categories:
Cultural issue - related to the practice of psychotherapy
Grammatical concept - to improve comprehension and expression
Therapeutic technique - what to say to apply a technique or process
Live practice - with native speakers
10 Universal City Plaza, Universal City
Practical Spanish for Therapists # 2
Cultural Issue: Familismo, Grammatical concept: Hispanic naming customs, Therapeutic technique: Vocabulary, verbs, phrases and process for creating a genogram as assessment tool congruent with familismo, Live practice: Creating a genogram with native speakers.
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Cultural issues: Personalismo,Tu y Usted, Desahogarse; Grammatical concept: Telling time to make and change appointments, Therapeutic technique: Conducting early sessions including introducing yourself, paperwork, reflecting statements, open-ended questions, closing the session and setting up the next appointment. Live practice: new client
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Date: TBA
Cultural issue: Consejos - giving recommendations and responding to requests for advice, Grammatical concepts: Common verbs in therapeutic environment, direct and indirect object pronouns essential to understanding your client's process, Therapeutic technique: Substance abuse assessment, Live practice: substance abuse assessment.
Fee: $149.00
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Date: TBA
Cultural issue: Culture bound syndromes susto y nervios - differentiating psychosis and culture, Grammatical concept: use of subjunctive and conditional mood in past and present, Therapeutic technique: dangerous patient assessment, Live practice - dangerous patient.
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or call Cynthia Braden, MFT 310-259-9923
If you would like to develop a custom program for your entity,
we can help, give us a call!