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Learning Objectives
1.Argue how social class and race can impact clinical assessment and treatment of mental health issues.
2.Conclude how the values and biases of clinicians can influence treatment and therapeutic outcomes.
3.Appraise how mental health clinicians can better understand clients within their social and cultural environments to avoid misunderstanding that can harm the therapeutic alliance.
4.Demonstrate how clinicians can more comfortably and capably discuss issues surrounding race and economic issues that clients can be reluctant to talk about.
5.Determine how clinicians can help clients overcome cultural shame for improved engagement in mental health treatment.
6.Devise two ways clinicians can reduce barriers to mental health treatment that face minority groups and disenfranchised people.