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The Psychotherapist as Advocate: A Model for Therapeutic Alliance through the Counselor Advocate Scholar Model

Virtual
On Demand
2 CE Hours
Cultural Competency, General
Free

Presented By

  • Marlon Johnson, PhD, LPC (TX), LPC-MHSP (TN), NCC
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Description

During our work as psychotherapists, we continue to build skills to help address the clinical diagnoses and traumatic encounters our clients bring into the therapy office. While we build upon our understanding of culture and identity as a framework for understanding client concerns, one area continues to challenge clinicians: The role of the advocate. This training will explore Ratts and Greenleaf’s (2018) Counselor Advocate-Scholar model to address cultural competence and systems of oppression.

Participants will explore this model and its connection to the varying identities and challenges clients bring into the clinical space. There will be a review of various codes of ethics which address advocacy as an ethical responsibility for client care. We will explore several case studies to help crystallize our understanding of the CAS model and identify ways to broach and uplift clients whose concerns are connected to oppressive systems.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this presentation is to increase knowledge and skills about the CounselorAdvocate-Scholar model as an aspect of addressing cultural competence and systems of oppression.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Explain at least three connections between cultural competence and the Counselor-Advocate-Scholar (CAS) model

  • Describe two ways the CAS model is important to ethical counseling practice

  • Identify two strategies that can be used to assess and support under-resourced communities within their caseload

Introductory
Cultural Competency
General
Social Worker

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.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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 2 General continuing education credits.

Marriage & Family Therapist

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.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Counselor

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.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

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.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 programing. Counselor Skill Group: Ethical and Professional Development, Legal

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Marlon Johnson, PhD, LPC (TX), LPC-MHSP (TN), NCC

Dr. Marlon Johnson (He/Him) serves as a licensed professional counselor in private practice at Johnson Counseling and Consulting and as an Assistant Professor of Counselor Education at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. Dr. Johnson’s clinical work centers on Black mental wellness, queer and trans-inclusive mental healthcare, and community mental wellness activities. He utilizes Narrative theory and Quare theory to help clients feel seen and safe to explore their identities and experiences within the counseling environment. He also has experience with foster care family supports, Child-Centered Play Therapy, group interventions for adolescents experiencing resistance and trauma, and college and career readiness counseling within rural communities.

As an educator, Dr. Johnson trains students and scholars to think critically about cultural inclusion and advocacy, assessment methods, and career interventions. As a researcher and advocate, he integrates an intersectional framework while exploring Black and Queer identity development, uplifts mental health access and equity, generates inclusive career development strategies, and engages narratives of faith, race, and sexuality.

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