Client culture
This course will provide participants with a deeper understanding of how the consumer’s mental health, their experience with the mental health system, and the stigma of mental illness has impacted them. Clients bring a set of values, beliefs, and lifestyle as a result of their personal experiences, their mental health challenges, the mental health system, and their own ethnic culture. These personal experiences and beliefs can be used to empower clients to become involved in the following areas: Self-help Programs: Peer Advocacy, Education, Collaboration and partnership in system change, Alternative mental health services, Seeking employment in the mental health system. The educational goal of this training is to ensure that accurate and appropriate clinical decisions are made relative to the consumers’ concerns and that appropriate treatment and referral decisions are the result. This course meets the requirements of California Code of Regulations (CCR, Title 9, Chapter 11, Section 1810.410 and Mental Health Directive No: 2009-06). Client Culture training covers the personal experiences of a client, children, adolescents, family members, parents and caregivers. In this training the presenter will provide a formal presentation and lead a panel discussion to explore issues related to client culture. The panel will engage and address participants on culturally sensitive and diverse topics with respect to portrayal of persons with mental challenges.