Live interactive meeting ·

Addressing Spiritual and Cultural Issues Within Treatment for Psychosis

with Ron Unger, LCSW

There is not just one way of making sense of reality; instead, each culture or even each subculture goes about it differently. Further, many or even most people affirm beliefs in various “spiritual” aspects of reality that transcend everyday experiences. But this leads to the question: how are we to distinguish healthy diversity in culture and spirituality, from that which is pathological or “psychotic?”

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Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's. It may also be of interest to others, including family members and people with lived experience of psychosis.
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Meet the speaker

Portrait of Ron Unger, LCSW
Ron Unger, LCSW

Ron Unger works as a therapist and therapy consultant, practicing in Eugene Oregon. For the past 23 years he has also worked as an educator, providing seminars on CBT for psychosis and related topics that have reached thousands of people across the United States and internationally. In cooperation with organizations like ISPS and Mad in America, he has organized and hosted webinars with leaders in the field of therapy for psychosis; recordings of many of these can be found on his youtube channel, youtube.com/c/RonUnger. His website is recoveryfrompsychosis.org.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to

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Demonstrate the ability to adapt CBT for psychosis approaches to meet the needs of individuals from varying cultural groups.

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Explain the role of cultural humility, and an awareness of the uncertainty of one’s own knowledge, in respectful and effective therapy for psychosis.

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Utilize cultural competence in addressing spiritual issues within a recovery oriented approach to psychosis while working with individuals from a variety of traditions and subcultures.

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Describe, the role of racial and cultural oppression in increasing psychosis, the misdiagnosis of psychosis, and the likelihood of forced treatment.

Session agenda

8:30-9:00 AM:  Combining cultural competence with cultural humility

9:00-10:00 AM: Intersecting identities and meaning:  approaches to developing a shared understanding.

10:00-10:45 AM:  Assessing and addressing diverse forms of oppression

10:45-11:00 AM:  Break

11:00-11:45:  Issues arising from the intersection of spirituality and psychosis

11:45-12:45:  Approaches to respecting religion and spirituality within recovery oriented CBT

CE Info

4
CE credit hours

Live interactive meeting · 4 hours 15 minutes

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$89 · 4 CE credit hours · Friday, Apr 9, 2027 · 8:30 AM – 12:45 PM PDT

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