Culturally and Structurally Responsive Mental Healthcare: Meeting our Ethical Mandate CE Webinar for therapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists

 
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Culturally and Structurally Responsive Mental Healthcare: Meeting our Ethical Mandate - 3 hours

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When & Where:

  • Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2026
  • Time: 1:00pm - 4:15pm Eastern Time
  • CE Hours Included: 3 (please see below for details)
  • Location: Live Interactive Webinar ("Synchronous") on Zoom
  • Investment: $87 before Friday, November 27th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, $97 after
  • Presented by: Melanie M. Wilcox, Ph.D., ABPP (see bio below)
  • Workshop Recording: A recording of this workshop is available to review for 60 days after the presentation. However, participants must attend live to receive the "Synchronous" CE Certificate.
  • Instruction Level: Intermediate
  • Target Audience: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists

Learning Objectives:

After completing this workshop in its entirety, you will be able to:

  • Illustrate the connection between the APA and ACA ethics codes and culturally and structurally responsive care
  • Discuss the difference between the multicultural competence model and the multicultural orientation model
  • Outline the structural competencies approach

Workshop Description:

In this three-hour presentation, the presenter will discuss culturally and structurally responsive psychotherapy and clinical supervision in the context of the APA and ACA ethics codes, including anticipated changes to the APA ethics code. Research on culturally and structurally responsive care will be presented, including the overreliance on the multicultural competence framework and the more recent shift to the Multicultural Orientation and Structural Competence frameworks. Participants will learn about the pillars of Multicultural Orientation: Cultural Humility, Cultural Comfort, and Cultural Opportunities. Scholars’ more recent calls for a shift toward a Structural Competencies model will also be discussed, including defining what such a framework might look like and its relevance for ethical practice.

Workshop Agenda:
  • Illustrate the connection between the APA and ACA ethics codes and culturally and structurally responsive care (60 mins)
    • Relationship between our ethics codes and equity and justice
    • Perspectives of the APA, ACA, AAMFT, and NASW
    • ACA Advocacy Competencies
    • Anticipated updates to the APA Ethics Code
    • Existing professional guidelines and APA policies
    • Legal implications
  • Discuss the difference between the multicultural competence model and the multicultural orientation model (70 mins)
    • What does graduate multicultural training usually look like?
    • New considerations in “multicultural” perspectives
    • Shifting from Multicultural Competence to Multicultural Orientation (MCO)
    • Empirical Evidence for MCO
  • Outline the structural competencies approach (50 mins)
    • What is structural competence?
    • Principles of structural competence
    • Integrating MCO and structural competence: Considerations and examples

Presented by: Melanie M. Wilcox, Ph.D., ABPP

Melanie M. Wilcox, Ph.D., ABPP is a licensed psychologist and board-certified specialist in counseling psychology. Her clinical specialties include culturally and structurally responsive mental health care as well as trauma, addiction, assessment, and complex diagnosis. Dr. Wilcox has provided 43 invited continuing education workshop presentations, with many specifically in the area of culturally and structurally responsive psychotherapy and clinical supervision. Dr. Wilcox has additionally provided a number of other invited presentations as well as 45 peer-reviewed publications and 100 peer-reviewed presentations, the majority related to culturally and structurally responsive psychotherapy and clinical supervision.

Workshop Schedule (Eastern Time):

  • 12:30pm - 1:00pm | Sign-In and Welcome
  • 1:00pm - 2:30pm | Session
  • 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Break
  • 2:45pm - 4:15pm | Session
  • 4:15pm | Continuing Education Certificates Available

3 Ethics CE Hours Included - Details by License Type Below:

  • PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 3.0 Ethics Hours for Psychologists. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
  • COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This course offers 3.0 Ethics Hours for Counselors. Please click here for more detailed information.
  • SOCIAL WORKERS: The Knowledge Tree, a Summit Professional Education Company, provider #2470, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 1/14/2026-1/14/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3.0 Ethics continuing education credits. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credits. Please click here for more detailed information.
  • MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (GAMFT), 3.0 Ethics hours. If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.

Registration: To register for individual workshops, you may use our online payment option, or to pay by check you may print and complete the Registration Form and mail or fax it to our office. The registration form is available on our website: www.theknowledgetree.org. Registration is permitted until the time the workshop begins, unless otherwise specified.

Multiple Workshop Special: There is a 10% Discount with registration for two workshops. There is a 15% Discount with registrations for three or four workshops. There is a 20% Discount with registration for five or more workshops.

Refund/Cancellation Policy: If you can no longer attend a workshop you have registered for, you can either receive a credit for another workshop or receive a refund if you are within the refund policy period. Refunds will be given for cancellations received at least five days prior to the workshop. More information about refund/cancellation can be found here.

Attendance Policy: 100% attendance and completion of a course evaluation is required at any CE program in order to receive credit for that CE program. No partial credit is given. Certificates of completion will be available in each attendee’s account once the broadcast has ended and the course evaluation completed.

ADA Requests: We will make every effort to accommodate any reasonable ADA request. Please call or email us at least two weeks prior to the event. Payment and registration are required to fulfill an ADA request.

No Conflict Policy: Neither The Knowledge Tree nor its speakers have received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program. 

System Requirements: Live Interactive Webinars are facilitated via Zoom. System requirements for the Zoom platform are linked at our FAQ page.

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