On-Demand Course

at your pace and convenience.

This course is approved for 4 continuing education (CE) hours. A CE hour is a measure used in continuing education programs to quantify the time spent during professional development activities. To earn CE hours, you will need to complete 1) all required course activities and 2) the course evaluation survey. A certificate of attendance will be made available on the Student Dashboard upon course completion.

Who Should Attend

This course is recommended for:

  • anyone interested in increasing their awareness of the social context, power dynamics, and inequities,

  • family therapists, art therapists, mental health counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health clinicians,

  • problem gambling treatment providers,

  • Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors (CADCs),

  • Certified Gambling Addiction Counselors (CGACs),

  • problem gambling treatment supervisors,

  • prevention specialists,

  • public health professionals,

  • educators, and

  • agency administrators.

What Is Included

This online training explores sociocultural attunement within the US social context. Using videos and interactive learning tools, the course raises awareness of social locations and social dynamics.

  • The course includes five modules. Videos, interactive learning tools, and readings are provided under each module. You are free to take as much time as you need to review these resources. Once you have reviewed and mastered the content of each module, you will be required to pass a short quiz before proceeding to a new module. You must pass all of the quizzes before you are eligible for verification that you have successfully completed the course.

  • We suggest you take your time, view content as many times as you like, and access suggested readings and resources when possible. It is not necessary to complete the course in a single sitting. You are free to open and close the course as many times as you like.

  • We ask you to have an open attitude as you go through this course. At times it may seem as if we are reviewing what you already know. However, paying close attention is likely to provide an opportunity to realize subtle differences and important nuances in sociocultural attunement.

Course Curriculum

    1. Welcome!

    2. How to navitage this course

    3. Course Overview & Objectives

    4. Continuing Education Credits

    5. Video: El Pendon Estrellado

    6. Video: And Still I Rise - Maya Angelo

    1. Video: Social Determinants of Health

    2. Required Reading: The Generational Impact of Racism on the Health of American Indians and Native Alaskans

    3. PG ATTUN Quiz 1

    4. Before we continue...

    5. Your Professional Background

    1. Video: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    2. Video: What Are Human Rights?

    3. Video: LGBTQ+ and Human Rights

    4. Video: Homelessness as an Example of Failure to Ensure Human Rights

    5. Video: Crip Camp: Example of a Civil Rights Movement

    6. Video: Black Lives Matter: A Contemporary Social/Political/Civil Rights Movement

    7. Video: Sins Invalid: Taking Action Toward Disability Justice

    8. Human Rights Watch 2024: The United States

    9. PG ATTUN Quiz 2

    1. Video: The Story of Race

    2. Required Reading: Systemic Racism

    3. Required Reading: Immigration Policies and Structural Racism

    4. Tokiko recounts her experience in a the Japanese internment camp

    5. Required Reading: Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in the US

    6. Required Reading: Indian Schools

    7. Video: Redlining

    8. Required Reading: Portland Historical Context of Racist Planning

    9. Required Reading: Looking Back in Order to Move Forward

    10. PG ATTUN Quiz 3

    1. Dynamics of Privilege and Oppression

    2. Required Reading: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

    3. Video: Social Class: Wealth Distribution

    4. Male Privilege

    5. Required Reading: Heterosexual Privilege

    6. Required Reading: Cisgender Privilege

    7. PG ATTUN Quiz 4

    1. What Next?

    2. Video: Gender Awareness

    3. Video: Socio-Education on Gender: Belle Turns Down Gaston

    4. Video: Identifying as non-binary

    5. Video: Pronouns

    6. Video: Intersectionality

    7. PG ATTUN Quiz 5

About this course

  • Free
  • 55 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

Instructor

Senior Instructor Teresa McDowell

Teresa McDowell, Ed.D., LMFT is a professor emerita at Lewis & Clark, in Portland, Oregon, where she served as Department Chair and co-founded Lewis & Clark’s Problem Gambling Services. Dr. McDowell has served as a licensed marriage and family therapist, family therapy educator, program director, educational administrator, and consultant over the past 40 years. Her work has primarily focused on counselor education and workforce development, organizational consultation, international family therapy, equity-based clinical practice, integrated treatment for problem gambling, and clinical supervision. She currently serves as a social researcher, program evaluator, and consultant with Partners in Social Research and is the senior instructor for the Advanced Career Online Resource Network (ACORN). Dr. McDowell has published over 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters. She has presented her work at numerous conferences across eight countries. She is the author of Applying Critical Social Theory to Family Therapy Practice and first co-author of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Guidelines for Equity-Based Theory and Practice (1st and 2nd Editions). Her work in problem gambling treatment includes authoring the Working with Families in Problem Gambling Treatment handbook, research on core competencies for problem gambling counselors and prevention specialists, and extensive contributions to the development of Oregon’s problem gambling treatment workforce.

Pricing

This course is free of charge, courtesy of Oregon Health Authority Problem Gambling Services

ACORN

is committed to excellence.

ACORN has been approved by the International Gambling Counselor Certification Board (IGCCB) and the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon (MHACBO) to provide continuing education courses. Additionally, ACORN has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7274. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACORN is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Course Reviews

4 star rating

Engaging.

Wendy Lopez

Easy to follow

Easy to follow

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5 star rating

Informational

Katie Leal

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5 star rating

very good information

Herman Torres

every thing is good

every thing is good

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5 star rating

very important

Rica Ottenbreit

very informative, needed for my program.

very informative, needed for my program.

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5 star rating

Good

Kathleen Pollard-Brue

Good

Good

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5 star rating

Learned a great deal to help in my current position

Michelle Dix

Great stories and ideas

Great stories and ideas

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