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Understanding and Working with Vietnamese Americans

Virtual
On Demand
1.25 CE Hour On Demand
Cultural Competency, General
Free

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Location

  • On Demand
    Sessions will be available On-Demand
Description

The workshop is designed to help the audience gain an understanding of the Vietnamese Americans immigration experience, cultural values, and attitudes toward seeking health/mental health services. The presenter will outline the enormous heterogeneity, in terms of immigration experience, within the Vietnamese American community. These diverse experiences will contribute to the current mental health issues and patterns of helpseeking. This workshop will introduce effective strategies for working with the Vietnamese American population.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase cultural understanding and learn effective strategies for working with the Vietnamese American population.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the enormous diversity in immigration.

  • Identify two or more ways Vietnamese American immigration experiences impact mental health.

  • Identify and describe two or more cultural factors that could affect the help-seeking process.

  • Identify and describe two or more strategies that can be used when working with Vietnamese American individuals.

Introductory
Cultural Competency
General
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Physicians

Review in process.

Nurses

Review in process.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Aetna Better Health Louisiana. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
  • Waiting Room Opens
  • Workshop Begins
  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Dung Ngo, PhD

Dr. Dung Ngo received his doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from Saint Louis University. He also completed both his Internship training and Postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Dr. Ngo specializes in Asian American Mental Health. He studied depression, PTSD, trauma, acculturation, domestic violence, and dementia among the Vietnamese American population. After the Gulf Coast Oil Spill, he spent 3 years in New Orleans, Biloxi, and Bayou La Batre developing and conducting mental health workshops to help the Vietnamese fishing communities to cope with the disaster. In addition, he has developed and conducted many Cultural Competency workshops, assisting health/mental health agencies, as well as legal and law enforcement personnels to work more effectively with the Vietnamese American communities across the Gulf Coast States. He is currently a faculty member at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi. Dr. Ngo is an avid fisherman and enjoys cooking and spending time with his family and friends.

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