How many of your clients have you diagnosed with an Adjustment Disorder? Really … that’s the most frequent diagnosis you give? Okay, we get it – diagnosis is tough, especially because you don’t want to harm your client with yet another label. It’s even harder when your client identifies with a historically marginalized population. You recognize that culture affects the manner in which your clients’ problems are defined and experienced (ACA Code of Ethics E.5.b.) but now you are over-cautious in diagnosing. On the other hand, you might be making diagnoses that aren’t truly representative of the client’s symptomatology and not fully aware of how failing to understand the client's culture could play a big part of that misdiagnosis. This course is like the supervisor-on-your-shoulder (you know, the brainiac diagnostician you had in grad school) asking you important and critical questions that make you think about the confluence of the client’s culture and symptomatology, culture-based ways to focus the diagnostic process, and arriving at a diagnosis that is in the best interests of the client. You will complete this course confident, equipped with a list of dynamic, culture-focused diagnostic interviewing questions that you can use in practice today. Your supervisor will be thrilled the next time you turn in a mental health assessment with a thorough, accurate, and culture-based diagnosis for your new client!