African American Men and Mental Health: Client and Clinician Therapeutic Dyad (1 credit hour)

Program Summary:  This course offers clinical guidance and discussion for mental health clinicians who work and collaborate with African American men.  The course highlights the importance of Afrocentric values, including mutuality, emotional connection, and spirituality.  Challenges of marginalization, oppression, and racism are explored along with other barriers to care.  The course offers three frameworks for practice:  social determinants of health, intersectionality, and narrative practice.

This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.  

Reading: African American Men and Mental Health:  Client and Clinician Therapeutic Dyad  Author: Gerald Myers, DSW, LCSW Publisher: Advances in Social Work

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Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by offering therapeutic guidance for clinicians who work and collaborate with African American men.

Learning Objectives:  Compare the Eurocentric and Afrocentric perspectives.  Describe treatment errors and barriers for African American men.  Identify a framework or a theory that informs mental health practice with African American men.

Course Available Until: June 30, 2029.

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1: Practice information related to the treatment of African American men frequently appears in social work peer-reviewed journals.
 
 
2: Afrocentrism concerns itself with
 
 
3: Afrocentric social work seeks
 
 
 
 
4: The African American community is more often seen as
 
 
5: Which of the following is a barrier to African American men's mental healthcare?
 
 
 
 
 
 
6: Nationally, _________ of social workers are reported to be Black.
 
 
 
 
7: Nationally, _________ of professional counselors are reported to be Black.
 
 
 
 
8: Which framework examines the role of societal factors that cause disparities such as education access and quality?
 
 
 
9: Which framework was popularized by Kimberle Crenshaw to demonstrate how an African American woman suffered cumulative oppression?
 
 
 
10: Which framework addresses the complaint of some African American men that clinicians do not listen to them or understand them?
 
 
 
11: Narrative therapy __________negative aspects of the client's experience, separating the person from the problem.
 
 
12: The inclusion of a(n) __________ perspective into the social work cannon and education would improve the profession's actions toward African Americans and other marginalized populations.
 
 

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G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course.  She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience.  She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City.  She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Available Until: June 30, 2029.
Filed under: Anti-Racism, Anti-Discrimination, Clinical, Cultural Competence