Presenter: Paulette Moore Hines, Ph.D.

Thursday, March 17, 2011
Olscamp Hall, Room 101
Bowling Green State University

Culture matters! Effective assessment and intervention is contingent upon understanding clients/families within their context. Hence, it is incumbent upon clinicians to develop the self-awareness, group-specific knowledge and multi-cultural skills to work effectively with clients who are culturally different from themselves. This session will focus on enhancing participants' understanding about how culture (i.e. race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, life cycle, religion, language and immigrant status) shape how we think and behave.

The course is also designed to increase participants' capacity to translate this sensitivity into actions that maximize positive outcomes when involved in cross-cultural encounters. The presenter will utilize lecture, videos, exercises, case analysis and group discussion to address and illustrate basic principles of multi-cultural family intervention.

You will learn how to: 

• Define the multiple dimensions of culture
• Analyze your own background in terms of normative values related to class, gender, life cycle, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race and immigrant status
• Offer examples of how culture organizes experience and behavior
• Explore how social location can serve as both an asset and a vulnerability in relationships with clients
• Formulate assessment questions and intervention strategies that integrate a cultural formulation of what is maintaining 'the problem'
• Explain why use of a cultural genogram maximizes the effectiveness of assessment and intervention with clients/families

PAULETTE MOORE HINES, Ph.D.

Paulette Moore Hines, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Center for Healthy Schools, Families & Communities (CHSFC) and the Director of the Office of Prevention Services & Research, divisions of University Behavioral HealthCare, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at UMDNJRobert Wood Johnson Medical School and was one of the founding faculty of the Multi-Cultural Family Institute of New Jersey. Dr. Hines also serves as co-director of the Cultural Competence Training Center of Central New Jersey and is Chief Psychologist for University Behavioral HealthCare.

Dr. Dr. Hines is the principal or co-investigator on numerous federal and state grants concerned with youth violence, cultural competence, at-risk youth, HIV/AIDS, unwanted/ unplanned pregnancies, integrating mental health in schools and school drop-out. She is the author of a number of articles, chapters and book reviews and has made numerous conference presentations on the topics of African American families, multi-problem families, hope, culturally based interventions, and youth violence and victimization.

Dr. Hines is the Past President of the American Family Therapy Academy (2005– 2007). She received AFTA's Distinguished Contributions to Cultural & Economic Diversity Award in 2001 and she was the recipient of the Division of Family Psychology, American Psychological Association Carolyn Attneave Award for Distinguished Services to Diverse Families.

Dr. Hines has a Ph.D. degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Delaware. She has been a licensed psychologist in the State of New Jersey since 1979 where she maintains a private practice.

DOUGLAS G. ULLMAN

This program is the eleventh in a series of conferences on children's mental health that honor and continue the innovative work of Douglas G. Ullman. Dr. Ullman was Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University and a founding board member of the Children's Resource Center (CRC), a comprehensive, multidisciplinary community mental health program. A nationally known scholar, he dedicated his career to the training of child psychologists and to the promotion of evidence-based prevention, early identification and treatment of children. Dr. Ullman influenced the development of many child clinical psychologists who are now in academic and community practice settings across the country.

Douglas Ullman had the unique ability to bring professionals together to work on children's behalf. This conference series was created to extend his vision of collaborative state-of-the-science services for youth and families.

CONFERENCE AGENDA 

CONFERENCE INFORMATION: 

Who should attend: 
Clinical and school psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, probation officers and pediatricians  

CEUs Pending:
Psychologist, DODD, Ohio nurses (LPN & RN)*, counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists

* This offering is approval pending by the Ohio Board of Nursing through the OBN Approver at Northwest State Community College Division of Nursing

Fee (includes CEUs and lunch):
$129 if you register on or before March 1, 2011
$139 after March 1, 2011

Cancellation Policy: 
If you cancel five full days before the conference, your fee will be refunded in full. If you cancel during the last four days, you will receive a 50 percent refund. There will be no refunds on the day of the conference. You are encouraged to send a substitute if your plans change on short notice.

For Program Information:
E-mail Sara Smith

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