Enhancing the Alliance: Skills that Build a Stage-matched and Culturally Responsive Relationship
As practitioners in behavioral health, we often hear about the importance of building a collaborative relationship with our clients because it can greatly affect their treatment outcomes. However, rarely do we actually learn HOW to enhance the alliance. This course is designed to fill in that gap and help you learn practical skills and strategies to support a culturally responsive working alliance with your clients.
This interactive course provides a framework you can begin using right away to enhance the therapeutic alliance with your clients. The framework includes:
- Stage-matched care to identify a person’s stage of recovery and stage of change and respond accordingly.
- Cultural humility to ground your relationship in diversity and recognize power differences.
- Specific skills to build a sense of presence and nurture client motivation.
Throughout this 5 CE course, you will gain the knowledge necessary to develop a robust therapeutic, stage-matched, and culturally responsive alliance, and apply practical strategies to put this knowledge into practice.
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Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the role of the alliance in client outcomes.
- Describe and apply stage-matched care.
- Describe stages of recovery.
- Define cultural competence, humility, and how the social location of the practitioner and client can influence the therapeutic alliance.
- Identify and describe the eight skills that enhance the alliance between practitioners and clients, including how and why they are important.
- Apply the alliance-enhancing skills using stage-matched care and cultural humility.
- Describe the barriers practitioners and clients may experience in building a mutually trusting working alliance.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the role of the alliance in client outcomes.
- Describe and apply stage-matched care.
- Describe stages of recovery.
- Define cultural competence, humility, and how the social location of the practitioner and client can influence the therapeutic alliance.
- Identify and describe the eight skills that enhance the alliance between practitioners and clients, including how and why they are important.
- Apply the alliance-enhancing skills using stage-matched care and cultural humility.
- Describe the barriers practitioners and clients may experience in building a mutually trusting working alliance.