Expand Your Interpreter Knowledge
Therapist Talk:  A Mental Health Workshop

As a Berkshire AHEC Medical Interpreter Training Alumni
you are cordially invited to expand your interpreting knowledge in the Mental Health field.

Course Overview:

This 5 hour workshop will be an information session with regards to how as a Medical Interpreter we can focus on the process and emotion during a Mental Health interpreting encounter; we will explain therapy, its complexity and the intense emotions all can experience. We will focus on Mood Disorders and PTSD. Participants will be able to define transference (clients’ feelings/reactions) and countertransference (therapists’ feeling’s/reactions) and understand these roles within the therapeutic relationship and their impact on the medical interpreter, therapist and client. Be able to understand the various diagnoses classified under Mood Disorders, as well as symptoms characteristic of each disorder, understand the definition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and have the ability to define interpersonal trauma and its implications for attachment, affect regulation and the development of interpersonal connection. Also the role of acculturation: assessment and treatment implications.

Presenter:  Maria del Mar Farina

This course has been approved to provide 0.5 IMIA CEUs & 5 CCHI Instructional hours.

Registration is required.
Program Flyer:  Therapist Talk A Mental Health Workshop 2018 
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