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NPI Fall Workshop

Postcards from the Multicultural Edge:
What difference does a difference make?

Beverly Greene, Ph.D. & Louise Silverstein, Ph.D.

Saturday, September 25th

9:00 am to 4:00 pm

The Moore Room

Vanderbilt University Law School

6 Type I CEU's Available

How can contemporary psychologists become more multiculturally competent? Should practitioners focus primarily on race/ ethnicity or should they attempt to integrate other aspects of identity and social location into their quest for multicultural competence?

This workshop will explore how competent clinical practice requires a complexity paradigm that encompasses the intersectionalities of class, gender, race/ethnicity, and other aspects that define an individual’s subjective experience. In considering the complicated nexus of cultural difference and similarities in any individual,the deeper meaning behind these variables compels us to speak more directly to the gifts and challenges of diversity. In short, what difference does a difference really make and why?

Participants in this workshop will learn about diverse and intersecting identities, as clients navigate a society that is sometimes hostile to such identities. Participants will also explore how psychological health often involves a negotiation between identities and psychosocial factors that influence how an individual integrates these diverse identities. The field of psychology has begun to embrace a focus on cultural sensitivity and best practice includes an understanding of multiculturalism as a salient force in therapy practice.

The workshop will include group discussion, clinical examples, and didactic presentation.

The presenters have made available the following three articles for participants in advance of the workshop:

• Silverstein, Louise Bordeaux. (2009) "French, Catholic, Jewish. Outsider Within" (unpublished draft)
• Greene, Beverly. (2009) "Use and Abuse of Religious Beliefs in Dividing and Conquering Between Socially Marginalized Groups: The Same-Sex Marriage Debate", American Psychologist, (November), pp. 698-709.
• Dovidio, John F., Samuel L. Gaertner, Kerry Kawakami & Gordon Hodson. (2002), "Why Can't We Just Get Along? Interpersonal Biases and Interracial Distrust", Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 8 (2): 88-102.

Beverly Greene, Ph.D., a practicing clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at St. John's University, is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABPP), and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and 6 of its divisions. She has received literally scores of awards from prominent associations in such areas as mentoring, leadership, research, teaching, publications, and outstanding contributions to diverse branches of psychology. Her books include:

• the widely-used text Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World, 7th Edition (with Jeffrey Nevid & Spence Rathaus);
• the award-winning Women of Color: Integrating Ethnic and Gender Identities in Psychotherapy (with Lillian Comas-Diaz);
• Ethnic & Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men;
• Psychotherapy with African American Women (with Leslie Jackson);
• Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan (with Beth Firestein); and
• Education, Practice, & Research in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered Psychology: A Resource Manual (with Gladys Croom).

Louise Silverstein, Ph.D., is associate Professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, where she has taught courses in family therapy and the social construction of gender since 1992. Dr. Silverstein is a past president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Family Psychology and is also a family therapist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York.

Dr. Silverstein is co-founder, with Dr. Carl Auerbach, of the Yeshiva University Fatherhood Project, a qualitative research study of fathering from a multicultural perspective. In 2001, Drs. Silverstein and Auerbach received the Distinguished Research Award for this project from Division 51, the Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity, of the American Psychological Association. In 2000, the Association of Women in Psychology awarded Dr. Silverstein and Dr. Auerbach the Distinguished Publication Award for co-authoring the article, "Deconstructing the Essential Father" published in the American Psychologist. For Dr. Silverstein’s full CV, please visit www.louisesilverstein.com.

 

Lunch Provided

 

Workshop Parking

Free Parking!

Parking is available in Terrace Garage or Lot 5B (across from Vanderbilt Law School)

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/traffic_parking/

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