In this week’s episode with Renee Ortega:
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1. Understand the crucial role that intercultural communication and awareness plays in child and family work.
2. Explore the benefits of intercultural competency and it’s impact on the therapeutic relationship.
3. Strategies for integrating intercultural communication into their work with children and families.
The Continuum, by Renee Ortega
Renee Ortega is a Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) and a Certified Occupational Therapy (COTA) practitioner with over 14 years of experience working with children. Over the course of the past several years she has worked with the adult and pediatric population in both professions. Ms. Ortega is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). She is using this inventory in her dissertation on how health care professionals’ intercultural competency impacts mental health care in São Paulo, Brazil in LMIC’s. Ms. Ortega has become certified, specialized and trained in the areas of Sensory Integration and Praxis Testing (SIPT), applied behavioral analysis (ABA), interactive metronome (IM), Wilbarger protocol and Stanley Greenspan’s Floortime in addition to other therapeutic techniques and approaches. She has educated, trained, and supervised students and treated clients pairing techniques and tools from both professions. She strives to apply the tools of OT, DMT and the IDI along with her personal and diverse cultural experiences in her postdoctoral practice and research.
nice !!!!!
Thanks Renato!
Very interesting. Scanning work by Derald Wing Sue and David Sue. I am a Dance Therapist from New York now living in Australia.
Hi Theresa! Glad to have you here 🙂 I wonder what this episode brought up for you living in 2 different places across the world?!
So its a lot to do with language.