Engaging BIPOC Communities Effectively Using Telehealth, Extended Content
As the use of telehealth continues to rise, it’s essential for clinicians to develop culturally sensitive approaches that meet the unique needs of diverse communities, particularly those who may face additional barriers to accessing quality mental health care.
This comprehensive training is designed to enhance your understanding of the unique needs and challenges faced by clients who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) when accessing behavioral health services through telehealth.
Participants will join Dr. Ritchie Rubio and learn how to build trust with BIPOC clients by understanding the historical and systemic factors that impact the relationship between these communities and the healthcare system. They will explore practical ways to adapt mental health interventions to fit the cultural backgrounds of their clients, using strategies like incorporating culturally relevant symbols, language, stories, traditions, and healing practices into sessions.
A key focus of the training is addressing racial trauma using telehealth, with evidence-based practices (EBPs) that include mindfulness, relaxation techniques, and narrative therapies tailored to the client’s cultural background. Participants will explore the best practices for using digital tools and apps to enhance telemental health services for BIPOC clients to ensure that therapy remains accessible and effective despite the digital divide. They will learn to adapt their approach based on clients’ technical limitations and preferences, whether through video, phone, or flexible session formats.
By the end of this course, participants will be equipped with the skills needed to engage BIPOC clients and deliver more equitable, personalized mental health care via telehealth, providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed care that honors their unique experiences.
Enroll today and empower your practice to help bridge gaps in care for BIPOC communities in a virtual setting.
This is a non-interactive self-study course and consists of 2.5 hours of video training, course slides and resources.
From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Upon completion of this training, professionals will be able to do the following:
- Illustrate at least two ways of culturally-adapting trauma-focused interventions when working with BIPOC clients.
- Identify and describe at least two strategies to increase BIPOC clients’ access and engagement to behavioral telehealth.
- Construct and organize a tentative plan with at least two action steps on how to use telehealth tools to help address racial trauma and other cultural needs that are unique to BIPOC clients.
Ritchie Rubio Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Rubio works as a clinical child psychologist, play and expressive arts therapist, researcher-storyteller, program evaluator, statistical consultant, data analyst, telehealth trainer/consultant, and associate professor/lecturer in a variety of clinical and academic settings including public health systems, universities, pediatric hospitals, community mental health settings, schools, and research institutes in three countries: the Philippines, U.S.A., and New Zealand. He moved from the Philippines at the age of 25, completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a Child and Family emphasis from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) through a Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP) grant. He is currently the Director of Practice Improvement and Analytics of the Children, Youth, and Families System of Care (CYF-SOC) Behavioral Health Services (BHS) at the San Francisco Department of Public Health in California, USA. In that role, he plans and coordinates a clinical practice improvement and evaluation program focused on identifying best trauma-informed and diversity-responsive practices; and utilizing implementation science to design and strengthen clinical assessment and interventions. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at the Counseling Psychology programs of the University of San Francisco and the Berkeley Wright Institute. He teaches courses such as Research and Statistics; Crisis and Trauma Counseling; Neuroscience; Child and Adolescent Counseling; Family Violence and Protection; Individual, and Family Development; and Clinical Assessment and Measures. His clinical work was/is primarily with immigrant and multicultural children/youth and their families. He mostly integrates psychodynamic, attachment, family systems, multicultural, expressive arts, play therapy, and CBT orientations.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 2.5 continuing education hours of credit.
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Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 150 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
To receive your certificate of completion you must complete the course in its entirety.
To complete an Online Self Study Course, one must register, log in, select the My Courses option from the menu items, click the Course Title, complete all of the modules, complete and pass the post-test(s), and complete the course evaluation.
A grade of at least 80% or more is required to pass the post-test. Retaking the post-test is possible until the participant is able to pass the test.
Psychologists and other professionals seeking CE credit through our approval with the American Psychological Association are asked but not required to complete the course evaluation before obtaining their certificate of completion, however passing a post-test for online self-study courses, and submitting one's attendance for live on-site and live webinars is required.
You can download or print your certificate of completion by logging into your account, navigating to the course by selecting the My Courses option from the menu items, clicking the Course Title, scrolling to the Certificate of Completion section, and clicking on the Certificate of Completion link to either download it or print it.
Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
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This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
This is a non-interactive self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.
