Cultural & Behavioral Health Disparities Amid COVID-19
$49.00
Introductory
Online
Course Abstract
Cultural & Behavioral Health Disparities Amid COVID-19 is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that examines the mental and behavioral health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations during COVID-19.
This course will address social determinants of health and their influence on mental and behavioral health outcomes for COVID-19. Research findings are presented to assist with the knowledge component of racial and ethnocultural responsiveness. We examine the mental and behavioral health disparities of racial and ethnic minority populations collectively and then separately, highlighting African Americans, Native Americans, and Latino/Hispanic groups.
We will investigate how racism and discrimination, economic inequality, healthcare access and utilization, work and home conditions, and mass incarceration contribute to COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates among racial and ethnic minority populations. Poorer mental and behavioral health outcomes for COVID-19 reiterate the importance of addressing health inequalities, responding to systems of oppression, validating intergenerational trauma, removing barriers to healthcare access, and engaging in culturally responsive care.
This course will encourage you to self-reflect on the role of your own racial and ethnic identity. To aid in this process, self-reflection prompts are included periodically to promote the development of cultural humility. These prompts will help with the awareness component of cultural competency. An awareness of our own cultural values, biases, and assumptions is necessary to acknowledge racial bias, stereotyping, and where we are on the scale of privileged to marginalized, thus assisting in developing the skills necessary for the promotion of physical, mental, and behavioral health equity.
Course #40-53 | 2021 | 80 pages | 25 posttest questions
Learning Objectives
- Identify five factors that contribute to the health disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups
- Describe how privilege and power affect racial and ethnic minority populations and impact the therapeutic alliance
- Discuss how ethical principles of justice, diversity, and inclusion serve as foundational principles for racial and ethnocultural responsiveness
- Specify Social Determinants of Health implicated in poorer COVID-19 health outcomes
- List three ways COVID-19 restrictions impact mental health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations
- Name a best practice used to address treatment barriers among Hispanics/Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans
Course Directions
This online course provides instant access to the course materials (PDF download) and CE test. The course is text-based (reading) and the CE test is open-book (you can print the test to mark your answers on it while reading the course document).
Successful completion of this course involves passing an online test (80% required, 3 chances to take) and we ask that you also complete a brief course evaluation.
About the Author(s)
CE Information
Counseling
Professional Development Resources (PDR) has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5590. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. PDR is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0135 - Note: New York counselors will receive 4 continuing education credits for completing this self-study course).
Marriage and Family Therapy
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Professional Development Resources is also approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP #5590); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB #1046, ACE Program); the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0100 - Note: New York MFTs will receive 4 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course); the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (#114); and is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
School Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
Social Work
Professional Development Resources, #1046, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/12/2022 - 6/12/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 4 cultural competence continuing education credits.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW-0664 - Note: New York social workers will receive 4 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course). Professional Development Resources is also approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678).
Customer Testimonials
One of the best CE courses I have taken!
The material was very informative and highly educational. The author made sure to provide information that allow for undated information. I work in the prison systems and this really answered most of my questions.
I found it not only interesting but enlightening.
I LOVED the stats on how COVID affects various cohorts.
This is a very timely, much-needed course. Thanks.
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Very helpful in todays environment. Allowed me to reevaluate my perceptions.
Excellent and comprehensive!
A timely course with much material included. It was helpful to delve more deeply into the data on COVID and health care disparities at this time. I thought the course dug deeper and allowed practitioners to spend time thinking about implicit bias, and so many other aspects of working cross culturally. I appreciate the effort put forth by the course developer.
Nice course. Thanks for the explanations and information.
Very interesting course. Thank you.
There was a fair bit of repetition, but I learn better by repetition anyway! Really appreciated the detailed attention to statistics, and the many assessment/treatment tools presented.
A really thorough and insightful course. Thank you
Good information that is relevant both for daily living skills and the therapeutic relationship.
This course presented such comprehensive material on extremely important topics, particularly relevant to the current pandemic. Great CE course...current and so topical and relevant. Thank you.
Very clear, well-written, and comprehensive.
Information presented is very appropriate to the times in which we are living.
I found some of the material lengthy and redundant, but overall, it was clear, very informative, and an eye-opener to someone like me, who should be doing even more soul-searching and self-reflection about the issue of racial and other disparities in the delivery of health in our vast country. Very helpful seminar indeed.
This was a very comprehensive course and quite informative.
The course covered a lot. Very obvious that a lot of time, thought and research went into this. Especially with so many unknowns around Covid 19. Loved that it was relevant to the times we are in.
This course presented such comprehensive material on extremely important topics, particularly relevant to the current pandemic. Great CE course ... current and so topical and relevant. Thank you.
Very clear, well-written, and comprehensive.
This course was very informative, however there were a lot of different terminology defined and categorized. Learning all the differences between cultural humility, culture desire, cultural recognition, is a lot to remember and put into practice.
I learned a lot about differing views related to mental health. This is something for me to keep in mind when working with parents and recommending special education services related to mental health concerns.
