When Culture Impacts Decision Making
Ethics and Boundaries series
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Overview: This course examines how one’s culture impacts decision making in various treatment settings. Providers are constantly faced with ethical choices resulting in ambiguous outcomes and difficult decisions that may be morally confusing. Understanding cultural concepts enables providers to bridge the difference between themselves and diverse populations. Participants will acquire a better understanding of the ethical decision-making process when cross-cultural conflicts occur while addressing implications of unconscious biases.
Learning Objectives:
- Examine personal attitudes, values, beliefs and culture.
- Recognize and respond appropriately to cultural differences to be linguistically competent and culturally sensitive in interventions with clients and our colleagues.
- Identify professional and ethical obligations within social work, clinical and human services settings.
- Utilize and incorporate James Rest’s Four Components Model in ethical decision-making.
Audience: general
Sheng is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Perinatal Mental Health–Certified therapist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her career spans human services, healthcare, and higher education, with extensive experience addressing mental health, trauma, and systems change. From 2018 to 2023, Sheng served as a professor in the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay’s Social Work Department and continues to teach continuing education courses on ethics, boundaries, diversity, and leadership. Sheng is the Founder and CEO of Us 2 Behavioral Health Care, a multicultural mental health organization committed to advancing equity and access in behavioral health.
Session 2: Considerations with Supervision in Cross-Cultural Settings
October 6 at Noon CT/11am MT
Session 3: Practicing Self-Care in An Era of Moral Distress
November 3 at Noon CT/11am MT