Cultural Competency with Muslim Clients

The population of Muslims in Western societies continue to grow amid a challenging global political and social climate. It is imperative to develop a better understanding of the mental health needs of this community. Muslims in the United States face unique challenges and barriers when it comes to accessing mental health care, specifically psychotherapy services. 

In this 2-hour continuing education web conference, Jamila Oden, MEd, LPC returns to share a follow up to her presentation Ethical and Cultural Competence: Working with Arab and Muslim Clients.* Jamila will expand on best practices and ethical considerations for mental health and addiction professionals when working with Muslim populations. She will also take a closer look at culturally unique aspects of Ethnic Arab Muslims.

Incorporating cultural competence into treatment can improve therapeutic decision making. It can also offer alternative ways to define and plan a treatment program that is firmly directed toward progress and recovery as defined by both the counselor and the client.

This intermediate instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Discuss the importance of a multi-cultural view of psychotherapy.
2. Recognize at least three unique barriers Muslim populations face to obtain mental health services. 
3. Summarize research supported best psychotherapy practices in order to improve cultural competence with Muslim populations and decrease stigmatization. 
4. Explain the importance of values clarification as a key component of a culturally sensitive psychotherapy practice. 
5. List at least three community resources for practitioners and for clients. 

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: The contents of this program are based primarily on research publications which specifically address topics of cultural competency and ethical considerations when working with Muslim clients, and on the ethics codes of these professional organizations: APA and ACA. Contents are also guided by statements from leadership in those organizations. Up-to-date statistics were gathered from the PEW Research Center and website. Some interpretation and analysis presented is made by the presenter, in consultation with knowledgeable colleagues and expert consultants. This program discusses research supported best clinical and psychotherapy practices for use with Muslim clients. It may not include information on all applicable state laws. 

Declaration of conflicts of interest and commercial support: None

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* Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to Ethical and Cultural Competence: Working with Arab and Muslim Clients at no additional cost. Not a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here. Mental health professionals who are not members can access the homestudy recording for $14.95. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.  

Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy is an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within Counseling Services. 

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, 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. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 cultural competency continuing education credits. 

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. GoodTherapy.org received APA approval in May 2011. Events after 2011 may meet APA requirements for Continuing Education credits.

GoodTherapy.org, 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-0395.

GoodTherapy, 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-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Mental health professionals who are not members can access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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