Keynote: Cultural Humility in Treating Children & Adolescent

 Cultural humility provides an avenue for counselors to engage with clients to explore their cultural identity and how it contributes valuable components to integrate into the clients’ treatment (Hook et al., 2017). However, there are specific skills and considerations necessary for counseling children and adolescents. This is especially true when understanding the cultural and diversity viewpoints of children and adolescents. The application of cultural humility can enhance counseling relationships and provide greater insight to their perspectives and needs. 

Objectives

•  Participants will value the application of Cultural Humility as it expands on Multicultural Counseling Competencies.
• Participants will consider the unique cultural & diversity components for children & adolescents.
• Participants will discover serval strategies and approaches for counseling children & adolescents.

About Dr. M. Elsa Soto Leggett

Elsa earned her PhD in Counselor Education at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. She has taught in higher education for 20 years and is currently an Associate Professor at Truman State University. Her clinical experience, research, and publications focus on counseling children, solution focused counseling & solution focused play therapy, supervision, and skill’s applications in counseling. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and presented at local, state, regional, national, and international conferences. She co-edited Directive play therapy. She is currently president elect of American Counseling Association 2024-2025.