National Psychology Training Consortium

Course Description and Target Audience

This presentation will provide relevant information about the Southeast Asian experience from two different perspectives. The goal of the presentation is to provide individuals with information about an underserved population with the hopes to inform their assessment or treatment of these individuals. Target audience: mental health professionals who work with individuals of diverse backgrounds.

Relevant research, facts, and statistics will be used to support the presentation as well as the presenter's lived experiences. We have included several articles written in the past decade as well as non-peer-reviewed resources to augment the presentation information. The limitations of lived experiences and paucity of research will be discussed. There can be risk of emotional distress, as the topic involves some discussion on racial and ethnic discrimination, prejudice, and inequities. 

This topic's focus is on the mental health of individuals with Southeast Asian descent, which directly involves concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural history that affects the mental health of the Asian community, particularly people of Vietnamese and Filipino descent. Participants will be able to discuss and utilize this historical knowledge when working with members of the Asian community.
• Participants will be able to identify values, beliefs and world views that someone from the Asian community might have when seeking psychological services. Participants will exhibit an enhanced awareness of how these may differ from their own.
• Participants will be able to identify an enhanced awareness of their own world views, values and beliefs. Participants will demonstrate how those factors might impact their work with people who identify as Asian.
• Participants will be able to analyze barriers that Asians face when dealing with mental health and discuss how these might impact psychological intervention.
• Participants will be able to discuss effective and culturally sensitive interventions to provide effective treatment to the Asian community.

Presenter Information

Dr. Lindsay Vo is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialized training in clinical neuropsychology. She received her doctorate from William James College and completed her fellowship at the Central Arkansas Veteran Affairs Health Care Systems of North Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the owner of Diverse Assessment Services, which is a small private practice that provides a variety of evaluation and consultation services, including neuropsychological assessment and immigration-related mental health evaluations. She is active in the Vietnamese Neuropsychology Network, a special interest group of the Asian Neuropsychological Association, where she contributes to ongoing research in multicultural neuropsychology. Her passions lie in improving access to care for underrepresented groups and clinical supervision of trainees. Outside of work, she quite enjoys rock climbing, martial arts, and eating at different restaurants.

Dr. Joe Serrano is a clinician with over 17 years of varied clinical experiences in community mental health counseling centers, private practices, and inpatient facilities across the Midwest. He is formally trained in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, but also incorporates Solution- Focused Therapy, Narrative therapy, and Geek-informed interventions into his clinical work. Dr Serrano is also a co-founder of Psychocomicology - a group of mental health clinicians who study, utilize, and present on the interconnection of psychology and comic books.

Live CE Training Location and Costs

Location

This presentation will be offered virtually through Zoom.

Registration Costs

This cost includes the training and materials required to obtain CE’s. Your CE certificate will be made available to you upon completion of the training. 

National Psychology Training Consortium (NPTC) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NPTC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.