Engage with Liberation Psychology as a supportive framework for clients of color
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2 CEs available
Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!
This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.
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Workshop Description
This introductory level training introduces Liberation Psychology as a culturally responsive and socially grounded framework for working with immigrant and bicultural youth of color in career counseling and related clinical contexts. Many clinicians work with clients who are navigating complex intersections of culture, identity, family expectations, and systemic barriers that shape educational and vocational decision making. This training offers a structured lens for understanding these experiences while moving beyond purely individual level explanations of distress.
Participants will be introduced to key concepts of Liberation Psychology including critical consciousness, problematization, de ideologization, recovery of historical memory, and praxis. These concepts will be translated into clinically relevant language and applied to career related concerns such as academic pressure, family obligation, identity conflict, internalized oppression, and limited access to opportunity. The training will emphasize how sociopolitical forces, immigration related stressors, and dominant cultural narratives can influence clients’ self perceptions, career choices, and sense of agency.
Using a case example, the presenter will demonstrate how Liberation Psychology can be integrated into assessment, conceptualization, and intervention within therapeutic and career focused work. Practical strategies will be discussed for helping clients develop critical awareness, reconnect with cultural strengths, and make career decisions that are both contextually informed and personally meaningful.
While the primary focus is on immigrant and bicultural youth, the framework is applicable to clinicians working with adults who continue to carry unresolved cultural and vocational tensions.
This training is designed for licensed therapists seeking an introductory exposure to Liberation Psychology and its application in clinical and career related practice. No prior knowledge of Liberation Psychology is required. Attendees who work with adolescents, emerging adults, immigrants, or clients from marginalized communities may find this training particularly relevant. The presentation will be experiential, reflective, and clinically oriented, with attention to ethical and culturally responsive practice.
Educational Goals
This training provides an introduction to working with transgender youth who are experiencing self-harm and suicidal ideation.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Identify at least three core concepts of Liberation Psychology and describe their relevance to clinical and career related work with immigrant and bicultural youth of color.
- Explain how sociopolitical context, cultural identity, and systemic barriers can influence vocational distress, identity conflict, and career decision making in therapeutic settings.
- Apply Liberation Psychology informed principles to a case example by identifying culturally responsive assessment considerations and intervention strategies.
- Demonstrate at least one clinically applicable strategy that supports client agency, critical awareness, and integration of cultural strengths in career related counseling.
Presenter Cecile Bhang, PhD
Cecile Hyewon Bhang, Ph.D., Psy.D. (she/her) is a licensed psychologist, researcher, and educator with extensive clinical and academic experience. She serves as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Sonoma State University and has worked across university counseling centers, community mental health agencies, and private practice settings focusing on working immigrant and bicultural and multicultural individuals and families. Dr. Bhang’s clinical work is grounded in culturally responsive, integrative approaches that center relational and contextual understanding, including Relational Cultural Theory along with skills-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Dr. Bhang’s scholarship focuses on culturally contextualized frameworks for understanding identity development, resilience, and career related concerns among marginalized youth and young adults. Her work bridges theories of culture, power, and psychological well being to enhance clinical practice and training. She provides consultation and professional trainings on multicultural competence, social justice oriented practice, and the application of Liberation Psychology in counseling.
In addition to her academic and clinical roles, Dr. Bhang maintains a private practice and provides bilingual services in Korean and English. She is committed to advancing equitable, strengths based mental health care and mentoring future clinicians. For more information about her work and clinical services, please visit www.drcbhang.com.
Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.
You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).
Date: Friday, September 11
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific
Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members. Please see refund policy below.
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
- Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Course evaluations must be completed within 90 days of the training date. A $20 administrative fee will be charged for requests received more than 90 days after the course asking for course evaluation instructions, replacement CE certificates, or for research into missing or lost CE certificates. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
- Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
- Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
- Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.
- Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
- Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
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