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Quantum Units Education

The LGBTQ+ community is a diverse community that encompasses people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other gender identities and sexual orientations. LGBTQ+ individuals often experience discrimination and oppression throughout all aspects of their lives, including healthcare. There is a need for education and policies to ensure culturally competent care is being provided to LGBTQ+ patients.

Quantum Units Education

Quantum Units Education

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This course reviews the social constructions and meanings attached to menopause and how this impacts women's experiences of menopause, with emphasis on the sociocultural and historical context while examining menopause from an integrative approach considering interaction of current and past sociocultural contexts, biology, psychology, and social and family environments.

NetCE

NetCE

A collaborative course teaching practitioners how to work effectively with interpreters in health and mental health settings, covering seating arrangements, cultural context orientation, debriefing sessions, and building mutual respect and collaboration with interpreters.

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This course provides members of the interprofessional healthcare team with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to provide culturally competent and responsive care to all patients.

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NetCE

This training program is designed to empower medical and mental health professionals with essential knowledge in providing inclusive care for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals.

NetCE

This course explores current trends in cancer screening among racial and ethnic minority women, including their cultural beliefs and perceptions about cancer and health care, attitudes toward cancer screening, and barriers to screening. It covers breast and cervical cancer screenings and assists practitioners in communicating to patients in a culturally sensitive manner and developing culturally relevant screening promotion programs.

NetCE

Overview of the cultural context of infertility, discussing how women and children are viewed by different cultures, cultural meanings of infertility, psychological and social consequences, coping patterns, and culturally sensitive practice guidelines for working with couples from diverse racial and ethnic minority groups experiencing infertility.

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This course provides an overview of the impact of spirituality on health and mental health, with an emphasis on minority cultural and spiritual beliefs. An assessment and integration plan is also included.

NetCE

NetCE

This course examines working in and with rural communities and the need for cultural sensitivity and competence. Health, mental health, and social work service disparities, barriers to help-seeking, and specific issues relevant to various subpopulations will be explored. Ethical issues unique to working within rural communities will also be discussed.

NetCE

This course summarizes the revised ASERVIC competencies and their application in the counseling process, explaining why it is important for counselors to be proficient in each area before working with spiritual and religious issues in counseling. These competencies will enable counselors, social workers, mental health professionals, and allied professionals to develop a framework to assist them in understanding and working effectively with clients' spiritual and religious lives.

NetCE

This course highlights the unique needs of bisexual clients or those who otherwise identify in a non-binary way in the realm of sexual identification and expression. Professionals will learn valuable tools and approaches for strengthening their rapport with bisexually identified clients, with an emphasis placed on evaluating one's own biases around sexual identify and expression. The course also presents a basic plan for addressing oppressive cognitions as part of trauma-focused care.

University of Buffalo School of Social Work

Understand how implicit bias shapes assessment and treatment, and practice concrete strategies to reduce its impact on client care.

University of Buffalo School of Social Work

Move from cultural competence to lifelong cultural humility, addressing power dynamics and self-reflection in the therapeutic relationship.